Estonian Academy of Sciences (EAS)
(authorized by the Ministry)
The Ministry of Education and Research (www.hm.ee) is responsible for the implementation of research and education policy in Estonia. Institutions advising the Ministry in those issues including the EAS and the Research Competence Council (RCC; the latter is not a legal entity).
On recommendation of the RCC, the Ministry:
· provides targeted funding in all areas of science and humanities on competitive basis (block grants for up to six years, based on peer review) – 34 new research topics with a total budget of 58.5 million EEK in 2007 and continuing funding for 180 research topics with 241.2 million EEK
· provides baseline funding, aimed at supporting the development and initiative of R&D institutions and at co-financing collaboration projects, both international and local, between academia and industry
· runs the Programme of Centres of Excellence in Research (and other national R&D programmes within its remit)
The EAS (www.akadeemia.ee) promotes scientific co-operation in national and international level:
· representing Estonian science internationally,
· supporting the Estonian membership in international scientific unions,
· fostering research mobility
· participating in various EU structures.
Estonian team-leader in the Complexity-NET: Professor Jüri Engelbrecht, Vice President of the EAS and head of the Centre for Nonlinear Studies (CENS) at the Institute of Cybernetics, Tallinn University of Technology.
Main participating expert: Professor Leo Mõtus, Secretary General of the EAS and professor for real-time systems, Tallinn University of Technology.
Contact person at the EAS: Mrs. Anne Pöitel, Tel. +372 644 8677, Fax: +372 645 1925, E-mail: anne.poitel@akadeemia.ee.
Main areas of complexity studies in Estonia:
· Nonlinearity and fractality of natural processes
· Biocomplexity
· Complexity of dynamical processes
· Software complexity
· Complexity in software-intensive systems
Main centres doing complexity research in Estonia are:
CENS (Centre for Nonlinear Studies) is a virtual network of
research groups, founded in 1999 with the aim of bringing
under one umbrella the scientific potential of Estonia engaged
in interdisciplinary studies of complex nonlinear processes.
See more: http://cens.ioc.ee/cens
Nonlinear control systems research group at the Institute of Cybernetics, Tallinn University of Technology is aiming at developing theoretical and symbolic computation tools for modelling, analysis and synthesis of nonlinear control systems. See more: ttp://www.cc.ioc.ee/nonlinear_control_systems.php
Inter-institutional proactivity research group (formally at the Dept. of Computer Control, Tallinn University of Technology), after studying for many years different aspects of designing, analysing and implementing sample systems, have observed increasing number of computer applications that actually exhibit the emergent behavior
See more: http://www.proactivity-lab.ee