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Project period	Project title	Code	Principal investigator
2020-2021	Developing the Development Strategy Document "Vision 2040" of Tartu City	LSVUH20121	Triin Vihalemm
2020-2022	Social Media Surveillance and Experiences of Authoritarianism (Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation (Riksbankens Jubileumsfond))	MSVUH20057	Veronika Kalmus
2020-2022	CORE – Children Online: Research and Evidence. A knowledge base on children and youth in the digital world (H2020)	MSVUH20024R	Veronika Kalmus
2020-2023	Vulnerability in childhood and vulnerable subjectivity: interdisciplinary comparative perspective (Personal research funding (PUT) a team grant)	GSVUH20048PR	Dagmar Kutsar
2020-2023	ySKILLS - Youth Skills (H2020)	MSVUH20005R	Veronika Kalmus
2019-2020	Case Study of Information Ecology	LSVUH19627	Ragne Kõuts-Klemm
2019-2020	"Behind the curtains": what was going on in Estonian newsrooms in 1989 (U.S. Embassy in Estonia)	MSVUH19505	Signe Ivask
2019-2020	Research project "The perceived influence of being "scout" on individual development, skills and life perspectives"	LSVUH19111	Kairi Kasearu
2019-2020	Ecosocial Change and Social Innovation (Nordplus)	DSVUH19526M	Merle Linno
2019-2020	Developing Data Competence as a Universal Future Competence in the Curricula of the UT Institute of Social Science and Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies (Information Technology Foundation for Education)	DSVUH19187	Kairi Kasearu
2019-2021	What is news? News perceptions and practices among young adults in times of transition (Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies (Östersjöstiftelsen/ÖSS))	MSVUH19461	Signe Opermann
2019-2021	The work pace of memory institutions’ professionals in the context of acceleration of social time (Personal research funding (PUT) a postdoctoral research grant)	GSVUH0838PJ	Krista Lepik
2019-2022	BuildERS - Building European Communities' Resilience and Social Capital (H2020)	MSVUH19284R	Kati Orru
2019-2023	Reshaping Estonian energy, mobility and telecommunications systems on the verge of the Second Deep Transition (Personal research funding (PUT) a team grant)	GSVUH0346PR	Margit Keller
2019-2024	Cooperation agreement between the Estonian Defence Forces and the University of Tartu for the creation and funding of a PhD position	DSVUH19644	Kairi Kasearu
2018-2020	MANTICUS (RITA, activity 1)	LSVUH18459	Triin Vihalemm
2017-2020	Media and Information Literacy & Innovative Teaching Methods Laboratory (Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership)	2017-1-LV01-KA203-035429	Krista Lepik
2018-2021	Simulation Games in Strategic Communication Integration of simulation games in strategic communication studies for the development of future competences. The aim of the project is to create and test pedagogical innovations in strategic communication teaching in three Baltic universities through academic staff training, development of teaching aids, and development of a prototype of an interactive collaborative digital learning and teaching platform. Further information here.	2018-1-LV01-KA203-046981	Külliki Seppel
2018-2022	Development of resource management in defence sector The main objective of the project is to further develop the framework for resource management in defence sector.	SSVUH18330	Kairi Kasearu
2016-2022	European Social Survey in Estonia 2016-2022	SSVUH16418T	Mare Ainsaar
2017-2020	Civic identity and transnational media practices of the Baltic Russian-speaking populations in the context of political crisis We will examine how civic identity and quotidian acts of citizenship emerge and are transformed among the Estonian and Latvian Russian-speaking population during their frequent and multifarious digital contacts with individuals and collectives in Russia and the Baltic Russian-language blogosphere in the context of an ongoing political tensions between the relevant states. The project will be built on a two-fold theoretical framework: mediated transnationalism among a population with a migrant background and new types of political/civic participation via internet-mediated, individualized public spheres. We aim to explain the interplay between the subjects’ general socio-economic involvement, the development of their personal online networks and strategies used in online interactions, as an important transforming mechanism of their civic identity in the context of political tensions.	PUT1624	Triin Vihalemm
2017-2019	IDEA This project aims to build the capacity of legal representatives and other professionals who represent the interests of children in the legal system to advance children's rights in each of the five partner countries (Ireland, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, and Sweden). The main focus of the project will be on child protection, but by its nature, this overlaps with other areas of law, including criminal law and private family law. Existing research has clearly identified the existence of deficits in the practical implementation of a children's rights-based approach in the broad area of child protection in each of the partner countries. It has also identified a lack of appropriate training as one of the primary causes of these deficits. Finally, it has emerged that none of the partner countries have strongly developed networks among legal professionals working in the area of child protection. Accordingly, the main aim of this project will be to develop networks and deliver training on a range of issues related to children¿s rights so as to build capacity and improve children¿s rights outcomes. There will be an emphasis on inter-disciplinary training and skills, and to this end, the project team includes experts in both Law and Social Work from each of the five partner countries.	MSVUH17040	Judit Strömpl
2017-2019	Children's subjective well-being in comparative perspective: methodological challenges and practical contributions The current exploratory grant application is aimed to study children’s subjective well-being in comparative perspective and to communicate research evidences to evidence-based practice that involves children. More specifically, our objectives are to advance research on children’s subjective well-being; to contribute its quantitative and qualitative comparative methodologies; and to serve practice with high-standard comparative evidences about children’s everyday lives and happiness. The project will be a part of international 'Children's Worlds' study and 'Multi-National Qualitative Study of Children’s Well-being' and will extend analysis drawn from the resource base of international project FRA. A focus in this project is also put on different children's groups and their perceptions of well-being. The project integrates the perspectives of positive subjective well-being indicators’ research, the children’s rights and child friendly justice, and the notion of children’s agency.	PUT1530	Dagmar Kutsar
2017-2019	(Mis)communicating power: A framework for analysing modern government communication	MOBJD4	Sten Hansson
2014-2019	Acceleration of Social and Personal Time in the Information Society: Practices and Effects of Mediated Communication The research topic is motivated by a theoretical ambition to apply the paradigm of social time acceleration for explaining outcomes of complex changes in post-communist societies, using Estonian transformation as an empirical example. Our objective is to apply theoretical elaborations for developing combined quantitative and qualitative methodology to analyze the effects of social time-space compression on the macro, meso and micro levels of the social system. The research program, being realized through synthesis of three disciplinary traditions in the research team and five subtopics, focuses on the roles of mediated communication as related to people’s coping with accelerated social and technological changes. Expected findings will, inter alia, allow constructing alternative scenarios for the future of Estonian information society, taking into account the need to maintain a high level of innovation while preserving cultural continuity, democracy and sustainable pace of development.	IUT20-38	Veronika Kalmus
2003-2022	European Social Survey The European Social Survey (the ESS) is an academically-driven social survey designed to chart and explain the interaction between Europe's changing institutions and the attitudes, beliefs and behaviour patterns of its diverse populations. Project's website	SSHSS11196T SSHSS10190 SSHSS10027 SSOSS07201 SSOCK05262	Mare Ainsaar

Project period

Project title

Code

Principal investigator

2020-2021

Developing the Development Strategy Document "Vision 2040" of Tartu City

LSVUH20121

Triin Vihalemm

2020-2022

Social Media Surveillance and Experiences of Authoritarianism (Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation (Riksbankens Jubileumsfond))

MSVUH20057

Veronika Kalmus

2020-2022

CORE – Children Online: Research and Evidence. A knowledge base on children and youth in the digital world (H2020)

MSVUH20024R

Veronika Kalmus

2020-2023

Vulnerability in childhood and vulnerable subjectivity: interdisciplinary comparative perspective (Personal research funding (PUT) a team grant)

GSVUH20048PR

Dagmar Kutsar

2020-2023

ySKILLS - Youth Skills (H2020)

MSVUH20005R

Veronika Kalmus

2019-2020

Case Study of Information Ecology

LSVUH19627

Ragne Kõuts-Klemm

2019-2020

"Behind the curtains": what was going on in Estonian newsrooms in 1989 (U.S. Embassy in Estonia)

MSVUH19505

Signe Ivask

2019-2020

Research project "The perceived influence of being "scout" on individual development, skills and life perspectives"

LSVUH19111

Kairi Kasearu

2019-2020

Ecosocial Change and Social Innovation (Nordplus)

DSVUH19526M

Merle Linno

2019-2020

Developing Data Competence as a Universal Future Competence in the Curricula of the UT Institute of Social Science and Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies (Information Technology Foundation for Education)

DSVUH19187

Kairi Kasearu

2019-2021

What is news? News perceptions and practices among young adults in times of transition (Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies (Östersjöstiftelsen/ÖSS))

MSVUH19461

Signe Opermann

2019-2021

The work pace of memory institutions’ professionals in the context of acceleration of social time (Personal research funding (PUT) a postdoctoral research grant)

GSVUH0838PJ

Krista Lepik

2019-2022

BuildERS - Building European Communities' Resilience and Social Capital (H2020)

MSVUH19284R

Kati Orru

2019-2023

Reshaping Estonian energy, mobility and telecommunications systems on the verge of the Second Deep Transition (Personal research funding (PUT) a team grant)

GSVUH0346PR

Margit Keller

2019-2024

Cooperation agreement between the Estonian Defence Forces and the University of Tartu for the creation and funding of a PhD position

DSVUH19644

Kairi Kasearu

2018-2020

MANTICUS (RITA, activity 1)

LSVUH18459

Triin Vihalemm

2017-2020

Media and Information Literacy & Innovative Teaching Methods Laboratory (Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership)

2017-1-LV01-KA203-035429

Krista Lepik

2018-2021

Simulation Games in Strategic Communication

Integration of simulation games in strategic communication studies for the development of future competences. The aim of the project is to create and test pedagogical innovations in strategic communication teaching in three Baltic universities through academic staff training, development of teaching aids, and development of a prototype of an interactive collaborative digital learning and teaching platform.

Further information here.

2018-1-LV01-KA203-046981

Külliki Seppel

2018-2022

Development of resource management in defence sector

The main objective of the project is to further develop the framework for resource management in defence sector.

SSVUH18330

Kairi Kasearu

2016-2022

European Social Survey in Estonia 2016-2022

SSVUH16418T

Mare Ainsaar

2017-2020

Civic identity and transnational media practices of the Baltic Russian-speaking populations in the context of political crisis

We will examine how civic identity and quotidian acts of citizenship emerge and are transformed among the Estonian and Latvian Russian-speaking population during their frequent and multifarious digital contacts with individuals and collectives in Russia and the Baltic Russian-language blogosphere in the context of an ongoing political tensions between the relevant states. The project will be built on a two-fold theoretical framework: mediated transnationalism among a population with a migrant background and new types of political/civic participation via internet-mediated, individualized public spheres. We aim to explain the interplay between the subjects’ general socio-economic involvement, the development of their personal online networks and strategies used in online interactions, as an important transforming mechanism of their civic identity in the context of political tensions.

PUT1624

Triin Vihalemm

2017-2019

IDEA

This project aims to build the capacity of legal representatives and other professionals who represent the interests of children in the legal system to advance children's rights in each of the five partner countries (Ireland, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, and Sweden). The main focus of the project will be on child protection, but by its nature, this overlaps with other areas of law, including criminal law and private family law. Existing research has clearly identified the existence of deficits in the practical implementation of a children's rights-based approach in the broad area of child protection in each of the partner countries. It has also identified a lack of appropriate training as one of the primary causes of these deficits. Finally, it has emerged that none of the partner countries have strongly developed networks among legal professionals working in the area of child protection. Accordingly, the main aim of this project will be to develop networks and deliver training on a range of issues related to children¿s rights so as to build capacity and improve children¿s rights outcomes. There will be an emphasis on inter-disciplinary training and skills, and to this end, the project team includes experts in both Law and Social Work from each of the five partner countries.

MSVUH17040

Judit Strömpl

2017-2019

Children's subjective well-being in comparative perspective: methodological challenges and practical contributions

The current exploratory grant application is aimed to study children’s subjective well-being in comparative perspective and to communicate research evidences to evidence-based practice that involves children. More specifically, our objectives are to advance research on children’s subjective well-being; to contribute its quantitative and qualitative comparative methodologies; and to serve practice with high-standard comparative evidences about children’s everyday lives and happiness. The project will be a part of international 'Children's Worlds' study and 'Multi-National Qualitative Study of Children’s Well-being' and will extend analysis drawn from the resource base of international project FRA. A focus in this project is also put on different children's groups and their perceptions of well-being. The project integrates the perspectives of positive subjective well-being indicators’ research, the children’s rights and child friendly justice, and the notion of children’s agency.

PUT1530

Dagmar Kutsar

2017-2019

(Mis)communicating power: A framework for analysing modern government communication

MOBJD4

Sten Hansson

2014-2019

Acceleration of Social and Personal Time in the Information Society: Practices and Effects of Mediated Communication

The research topic is motivated by a theoretical ambition to apply the paradigm of social time acceleration for explaining outcomes of complex changes in post-communist societies, using Estonian transformation as an empirical example. Our objective is to apply theoretical elaborations for developing combined quantitative and qualitative methodology to analyze the effects of social time-space compression on the macro, meso and micro levels of the social system. The research program, being realized through synthesis of three disciplinary traditions in the research team and five subtopics, focuses on the roles of mediated communication as related to people’s coping with accelerated social and technological changes. Expected findings will, inter alia, allow constructing alternative scenarios for the future of Estonian information society, taking into account the need to maintain a high level of innovation while preserving cultural continuity, democracy and sustainable pace of development.

IUT20-38

Veronika Kalmus

2003-2022

European Social Survey

The European Social Survey (the ESS) is an academically-driven social survey designed to chart and explain the interaction between Europe's changing institutions and the attitudes, beliefs and behaviour patterns of its diverse populations.

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