New grant projects funded in the 2022 call:
Team projects
| Principal Investigator | Project Title | Institution |
| Tambet Teesalu | Precision targeting of infiltrative glioblastoma | University of Tartu |
| Taavi Lehto | Developing Drug Delivery Technologies And RNA-based Drugs For Therapeutic Intervention | University of Tartu |
| Janika Kõrv | Clinical, Molecular and Genetic Profiling of Young-Onset Ischemic Stroke | University of Tartu |
| Jyrki Tapio Heinämäki | Multifunctional Composites of Nanofiber-Based 3D Bioprinted Constructs for Bone Tissue Engineering | University of Tartu |
| Kaia Palm | Characterization of immunological correlates and mechanisms of neurological disorders | Protobios LLC |
| Pilvi Ilves | Pediatric Stroke: Risk Factors, Neurodevelopmental Outcome and Quality of Life: Prognostic Factors for Outcome, Including Brain Plasticity | University of Tartu |
| Heiki Valk | Estonia in 1100–1400: native society, traditions and culture in the time of changes | University of Tartu |
| Jelena Kallas | Expanding the scope of a multi-purpose lexicographic resource to grammar and L2 competence | Institute of the Estonian Language |
| Kristi Viiding | Connections, transition, change: nobilitas haereditaria ac litteraria in the emergence of early modern literature in Polish and Swedish Livonia | Under and Tuglas Literature Centre |
| Andreas Ventsel | Relational Approach of Strategic History Narratives | University of Tartu |
| Jaak Vilo | Discovery and Analysis of Clinical Pathways in Health Data | University of Tartu |
| Peeter Laud | Distributed Identity, Distributed Trust | Cybernetica AS |
| Rainis Haller | Plasticity and extremal geometric structure of the unit ball of Banach spaces with applications to the study of Lipschitz spaces, vector-valued functions spaces and tensor products | University of Tartu |
| Enrico Nardi | Towards a joint solution to distinct theoretical puzzles: the axion-flavor connection | National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics |
| Raivo Stern | Emerging Phases in Quantum Magnets (EPiQuM) | National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics |
| Ago Samoson | H-NMR in solid state and complementary applications | Tallinn University of Technology |
| Agnes Kütt | Naked Azanide as an Aminating Agent and a Superbase | University of Tartu |
| Rando Tuvikene | Polysaccharide Based Biomaterials: Synergistic Combinations and Enhanced Functionalities | Tallinn University |
| Velle Toll | Natural Experiments to Constrain Anthropogenic Aerosol Forcing of Earth’s Climate | University of Tartu |
| Evelyn Uuemaa | Creating Water-Smart Landscapes | University of Tartu |
| Mark McCarthy | How important is internal nitrogen loading in driving eutrophication and cyanobacteria blooms in Estonian lakes? | Estonian University of Life Sciences |
| Olle Hints | From Greenhouse to Icehouse: Reconstructing Ordovician Climate Transitions and Biotic Responses in Baltica | Tallinn University of Technology |
| Reedik Mägi | Novel Method for Type 2 Diabetes and Gestational Diabetes Risk Prediction and its Validation in Estonian and UK Biobanks | University of Tartu |
| Tiina Tamm | Regulation of Viral IRES-Mediated Translation | University of Tartu |
| Mait Metspalu | New Horizons of Ancient Biomolecules Research to Study Human Evolution, Disease and Society in the Stone Age | University of Tartu |
| Kadri Koorem | Biotic novelty of plant communities as an indicator of the diversity of plant-associated organisms | University of Tartu |
| Maarja Öpik | Soil FUNgi in the FARMing landscapes (FUNFARM) | University of Tartu |
| Evelin Loit-Harro | Yield and quality stability and sustainability in long-term cropping systems | Estonian University of Life Sciences |
| Tsipe Aavik | Resilience of Plant-pollinator Interactions in Agroecosystems: Spatio-temporal Effects of Land Use Change | University of Tartu |
| Tiia Tulviste | How Do Changes in the Digital and Language Environment at Home During COVID-19 Lockdown Affect Child Development and Wellbeing? | University of Tartu |
| Kadri Koreinik | The Promise of Proximity to Quality: Spatial Strategies to Address Geographic Distances and Linguistic Differences in Secondary Schools | University of Tartu |
| Eiki Berg | Exploring Dynamics of “Frozen Conflicts” through Actor-based Interactions | University of Tartu |
| Kadri Leetmaa | Rethinking smartification from the margins: Co-creating Smart Rurality with and for an Aging Population | University of Tartu |
| Kristjan Tabri | Dynamic response of offshore structures | Tallinn University of Technology |
| Artu Ellmann | Development of continuous DYNAmic vertical REFerence for maritime and offshore engineering by applying machine learning strategies /DYNAREF/ | Tallinn University of Technology |
| Ants Kallaste | Additivly Manufactured Electrical Machines | Tallinn University of Technology |
| Oliver Järvik | Sustainable and Effective Materials for Latent Heat Thermal Energy Storage Based on Amine Ionic Liquids | Tallinn University of Technology |
| Taavi Raadik | Next Generation Microcrystalline Pyrite Solar Cell for Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Applications | Tallinn University of Technology |
| Andres Trikkel | Phosphorus Fertilisers and Rare Metals from Estonian Phosphorite in a Waste-Free Way | Tallinn University of Technology |
Starting projects
| Principal Investigator | Project Title | Institution |
| Brigitta Davidjants | Impact of subcultural (pop) music on the ideologization of 21st-century Estonian youth and on youth mental health | Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre |
| Taavi Tillmann | Integrating Big Health and Social Data, to Understand and Reduce Health Inequalities (BIG-HEART) | University of Tartu |
| Arvo Kaldmäe | Development of Disturbance Estimation Techniques for Nonlinear Control Systems | Tallinn University of Technology |
| Joosep Pata | Flexible and scalable data reconstruction and analysis using machine learning | National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics |
| Hardi Veermäe | Physics of primordial black holes from formation to the present | National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics |
| Maksim Ošeka | Development of New Asymmetric Electrochemical Methods in Continuous-Flow | Tallinn University of Technology |
| Alexander Kmoch | Framework for Spatial Predictive Modelling of Soil Properties Using Machine Learning | University of Tartu |
| Martin Laasmaa | The Role of Calcium Signaling Between Mitochondria and Sarcoplasmic Reticulum During Postnatal Development and in Disease in the Heart | Tallinn University of Technology |
| Kadri Runnel | Understanding and harnessing dead wood decomposition rates for forest carbon storage | University of Tartu |
| Kristiina Mark | Ecology, evolution and adaptation of secondary metabolites in terrestrial algae-mediated biofilms and lichens | Estonian University of Life Sciences |
| Lilian Pukk | Using environmental DNA and population genetics to understand the distribution and ecology of dangerous fish parasite and its invertebrate host | Estonian University of Life Sciences |
| Riinu Kiiker | Evolution and fitness penalties of fungicide-resistant Zymoseptoria tritici population in Estonia | The Centre of Estonian Rural Research and Knowledge |
| Liisa Talving | Affective Politicisation: How Parties Cultivate the Globalisation Divide | University of Tartu |
| Mari-Liis Jakobson | Breaking Into the Mainstream While Remaining Radical: Sidestreaming Strategies on the Populist Radical Right | Tallinn University |
| Tara Ghasempouri | Cross-level hardware security verification with semi-formal methods | Tallinn University of Technology |
| Jana Holmar | Development of New Optical Methods to Estimate Vascular Calcification and Monitor Inhibitors Removal During Dialysis in Patients with End-Stage Renal Disease (VasCalDi) | Tallinn University of Technology |
| Svetlana Polivtseva | Filter materials for turning urine into drinkable water | Tallinn University of Technology |
| Marje Kasari | Plasmid-on-Demand Platform for Antibitoic-Free Production of Recombinant Proteins | University of Tartu |
Postdoctoral projects
| Principal Investigator | Project Title | Institution |
| Marek Mooste | Pt-free Catalysts for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction in High Temperature PEM Fuel Cells | University of Tartu |
| Kaire Loit | Role of viruses in potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) and associated pathogenic and mutualistic fungi – novel solutions for biocontrol of potato diseases | Estonian University of Life Sciences |
| Alessandra Morrone | The Baltic Kindergarten: Non-adult health and diet in medieval and early modern Estonia through Paleopathology and Stable Isotope Analysis | University of Tartu |
| Kadri Seppa | The Role of RNA-recognition Motif of NELFE in Brain Physiology | University of Tartu |
| Mahboob Alam | Understanding bimetallic MNC catalysts structure-selectivity relationships in CO2 reduction using Mössbauer spectroscopy | Tallinn University of Technology |
| Martin Kolnes | Neural Gain Modulation of the Breadth of Attention | University of Tartu |
| Keiu Telve | Transnationality online – the role of virtual engagement with country of origin among Estonians in Australia | University of Tartu |
| Ajai Kumar Pathak | Understanding local-scale evolutionary history of South Asia and its impact on genetic relatedness, dietary adaptations and disease | University of Tartu |
| Nikhil Kumar Kamboj | Bio-mimetic selective laser sintered immunomodulatory antibiotic-free bioactive inorganic scaffolds for bone tissue engineering | Tallinn University of Technology |