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Call for the candidates for the 2026 National Research Awards. The proposals should be submitted electronically to the Academy of Sciences Calls e-environment by 10 December 2025.
The Academy Member Mihhail Bronštein Awards in Economics 2026. The proposals should be submitted electronically to the Academy of Sciences Calls e-environment by 18 December 2025.

For more information and contact: Terje Tuisk, terje.tuisk@akadeemia.ee

National Research Awards are granted to Estonian researchers and research teams for outstanding results in research and development.

The proposals should be submitted electronically in the Estonian Academy of Sciences Calls e-environment by 10 December 2025.

AWARD CATEGORIES

Lifetime achievement award for long-term excellence in research and development (up to 1 awards, 65 000 euros).
Annual awards to highlight the best research or research cycles completed and published within the last four years (2022–2025, up to 8 awards, á 20 000 euros) in the following fields:
1) Natural Sciences
2) Engineering and technology
3) Medical and health sciences
4) Agricultural and veterinary sciences
5) Social Sciences
6) Humanities and the arts
See Frascati Manual fields of research
Award for a Scientific Discovery impacting the paradigm and world view of the respective scientific field or pioneering a new field of science, or an invention or research and development based on a scientific discovery that has led to an innovative product with a significant socio-economic impact (up to 1 award, 50 000 euros).

Candidates for the award can be nominated by the:

Academic councils of the research and development institutions, universities and evaluated universities of applied sciences
Members of the Estonian Academy of Sciences
Council of Estonian Young Academy,
Estonian Employers’ Confederation, Estonian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Estonian Service Industry Association.

When nominating the research teams the scientific contribution of all members of the team must be clearly determined in the proposal.

Researchers and research teams who have previously been granted the annual award can be re-nominated for the annual award not before than ten years after the award was given.

Parts of the research cycle that has received the annual award can not be re-used as part of research cycles to be nominated for the annual award in subsequent years.

Additional information: akadeemia.ee/en/national-research-awards/

MATERIALS AND DATA TO BE SUBMITTED

Personal and contact data of the candidate/candidates, link to ETIS profile
For the candidate or in the case of team for the team leader Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar number of Publications and citations, h-index (if possible without self-citations), number of granted patents and patent applications. For the team members data of Google Scholar. For candidates of Annual Awards all of the above for the period 2022–2025.
In the case of team the proposal for the division of the prize amount between the members of the working group in the event of a prize being awarded
Data of the person who nominates the candidate
Files

Proposal (up to 3 pages)
Decision of the organization's governing body
CV-s of the candidates (up to 3 pages)
List of publications, and/or publications and other materials.

For more details we recommend you familiarize yourself with the application form well in advance before submitting the application. Most of the documents in the category Award for a Scientific Discovery have to be submitted in English.

Contact: Terje Tuisk, terje.tuisk@akadeemia.ee

Key Documents (in Estonian):
Regulation of the Estonian National Research Awards: https://www.riigiteataja.ee/akt/123092025003

The Academy Member Mihhail Bronštein Awards in Economics have been initiated to recognize theoretical developments and their successful applications by Estonian economists.

In 2026 two awards will be presented:

award of up to 10 000 (ten thousand) euros will be presented for significant and, as a rule, already applied achievements in economics.
award of up to 5000 (five thousand) euros will be presented for outstanding innovative applications in economics to an applicant who has not yet reached to PhD or the defending of the doctoral thesis has been no more than 5 years ago.

Nomination for the awards is open to all researchers and experts working in Estonian research institutions, as well as to researchers and experts who hold Estonian citizenship, an Estonian long-term residence permit or a right of permanent residence but are working outside Estonia.

Research or research cycles submitted for the awards must have been published in international peer-reviewed journals or published by recognized scientific publishers or by Estonian universities and research and development institutions as a monography or as a chapter in a collection in 2023–2025.

The statute of the Academician Mihhail Bronštein Awards in Economics is available here (in Estonian only). The initiator and the funder of the award is the family of Academy Member Mihhail Bronštein.

To nominate a candidate or candidates for the award, the following information must be submitted electronically to Academy of Sciences Calls e-environment https://ta-konkursid.ee at the latest by 18 December 2025:

application (up to 3 pages) with the explanation why the achievements of the candidate(s) are significant from the perspectives of Estonia and the whole world, and for which award the candidate or candidates are nominated;
the research or the research cycle submitted for the award;
curriculum vitae of the candidate(s) (up to 3 pages);
contact details of the submitter of the application;
if needed, any other documents or materials considered relevant to support the application.

The awards will be handed in January 2026.

Additional information: Ülle Sirk, ylle.sirk@akadeemia.ee