The European Union, its Member States and Europeans across the continent are mobilised in support of people fleeing the war in Ukraine. This specific initiative wants to support researchers of Ukraine by providing them with an overview of all existing actions at European and national levels. Read more HERE.
Conference on gender equality
The international “GEARING-Roles annual conference on gender equality in research and higher education” will take place on March 30, 2022 at V Spa Hotel and Conference centre (Tartu, Estonia) and can also be followed online.See more HERE.
COST network
COST helps to bring together researchers and practitioners from many countries and from all fields of research and technology. Read more HERE or see what the researchers are saying HERE.
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Prestigious ERC grant helps identify the impact of land-use change on plant species and soil fertility
Associate Professor of Plant Ecology of the University of Tartu Marina Semchenko has won a prestigious grant from the European Research Council (ERC) to study the effect of land-use change on the interactions between plants and soil organisms.
Insights into the past of an almost eradicated childhood infection
Meriam Guellil and other researchers from the University of Tartu and the University of Cambridge reconstructed the oldest known and first ancient DNA Hib genome from a young Anglo-Saxon child, from 6th-century England, who probably died from a plague co-infection.
Power electronics research advances solar building technology
The rapid development of photovoltaic materials and devices, and an equally fast reduction of their prices, brings a tremendous opportunity to integrate photovoltaic energy generation into buildings.
The perch became the ruler in the dark thanks to genetic changes
The scientists at the Estonian University of Life Sciences, together with researchers from Sweden and Finland, sequenced the genomes of over 30 Eurasian perch to better understand the molecular mechanisms of adaptation to extremely dark and acidic environments.