Open Calls

Currently open calls for applications.

The Committee is awaiting proposals to be submitted electronically in the Academy of Sciences Competitions e-environment by 10 December 2024.

AWARD CATEGORIES

  1. Lifetime achievement award for long-term excellence in research and development (up to 1 awards, 65 000 euros).
  2. Annual awards to highlight the best research or research cycles completed and published within the last four years (2021–2024, 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
  3. 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).

Proposals for the award may be submitted to the committee by the research councils of universities and positively evaluated research and development institutions, academicians of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, council of Estonian Young Academy, the Estonian Employers’ Confederation, Estonian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Estonian Service Industry Association.

When submitting a research collective, the scientific contribution of all members of the collective must be clearly described in the proposal.

Researchers and research teams who have previously been granted the annual award may be re-nominated for the annual award ten years after the award was given for research at a new level.
No part of the research cycle that has received the annual award may be used by co-authors as part of research cycles submitted for the annual award in subsequent years.

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

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

Key Documents (in Estonian):
Regulation of the Estonian National Research Awards: riigiteataja.ee/akt/111102024020
Mandate of the National Research Awards Committee: riigiteataja.ee/akt/313122022003

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

In 2025 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 2022–2024.

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 at https://ta-konkursid.ee at the latest by 18 December 2024:

  • 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 2025.

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