Estonian Ministry of Education and Research allocated 7 million euros to distribute over seven years for both the Centre of Excellence for Energy Efficiency, led by Professor and academician Jarek Kurnitski of the University of Technology, and the Centre of Excellence for Strategic Mineral and Carbon-based Resource Circular Economy, led by Professor Riina Aav.
Edgar Savisaar, one of the leaders of the Estonian independence movement in the late 1980s as well as the head of the government when Estonia regained its independence from the Soviet Union in August 1991, died on 29 December at 72.
Henry Lindpere is an Estonian-American lawyer whose mission is to help Estonians immigrate to the United States – he believes there are many Estonian startups that could enter the US market, but they’d need help with US visas, and he could make it easier for Estonians to make the legal journey to the New World.
Increasingly international universities want to push native-language brain drain up the political agenda, despite their rescue from ‘freefall’ by a recent funding top-up