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Project period	Project title	Code	Principal investigator
2018	EU Kids Online Survey in Estonia	SSVUH18087, SSVUH18107	Andra Siibak, Veronika Kalmus
2017-2020	Media and Information Literacy & Innovative Teaching Methods Laboratory (Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership)	2017-1-LV01-KA203-035429	Krista Lepik
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
2016-2018	ACUCARE The aim of ACUCARE project is to develop the acute inter-professional team work in youth psychiatric hospital services targeted to family work and residential child care settings by developing vocational training in social work and health care curricula. Project is aimed to develop new skills, knowledge and innovative new ways of working with adolescent suffering from mental health problems. Overall objective of the ACUCARE project and results is to develop the inter-professional acute team work as a new practice/service and create the joint vocational education programme (10 EAP).	MSVUH16084I	Merle Linno
2016-2018	CRONOS Estonia The CROss-National Online Survey (CRONOS) panel will be carried out in the UK, Estonia and Slovenia as part of Work Package 7 ‒ ‘Survey future online’ of the project ‘Synergies for Europe’s Research Infrastructures in the Social Sciences (SERISS)’, funded by the European Commission under grant agreement 654221. The aim of this project is to create a cross-national online panel using probability samples. The sample will be drawn for Round 8 of the European Social Survey (ESS), and those sample units that complete the face-to-face survey will also be invited to participate in the CRONOS panel.	VSVUH16238	Mare Ainsaar
2015-2018	CATCH-EyoU – Constructing AcTive CitizensHip with European Youth: Policies, Practices, Challenges and Solutions The project will investigate young people’s views of the EU and of their role in building the EU through their participatory practices at EU, national, regional and local levels. These issues will be examined from an interdisciplinary perspective (Political Sciences, Sociology, History, Media and Communications, Education, Psychology) as building blocks for a new and groundbreaking conceptualization and theoretical model of youth active citizenship in the EU, including “psychological” citizenship and practices of social and political engagement. To achieve this aim, the project will adopt an innovative approach combining traditional theoretical hypothesis testing with empirical-phenomenological analysis and allowing to integrate the perspectives of young people, as co-producers of knowledge, with those of researchers and other stakeholders. A wide range of research methods will be used including documentary and media analysis, interviews and focus groups, a cross-national longitudinal study, ethnographic case studies of participatory practices and a socially innovative intervention. These quantitative and qualitative methods will allow developing a new, robust and cutting-edge conceptualization of youth active citizenship in the EU and new evidence-based multilevel integrated theoretical model. This approach will offer a multifaceted understanding of the different factors influencing the perspectives of “native EU citizens” and the ways in which they engage in society, leading to groundbreaking changes in the ways in which youth engagement, participation and active citizenship are understood. Moreover, the project will provide policy makers with a set of evidence-based ideas, recommendations and instruments to integrate young people’s perspectives into various areas of policy-making. The findings of the project will thus fully cover the challenges, scope and impact of bringing the EU closer to its young citizens and boosting their participation. Coordinated by the University of Bologna, CATCH-EyoU involves a consortium of 9 partners: Örebro University (SE), Friedrich Schiller University University Jena (DE), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (GR), University of Porto (PT), Masaryk University (CZ), The London School of Economics and Political Science (UK), University of Tartu (EE), Forum Nazionale dei Giovani (IT). Project’s website: http://www.catcheyou.eu Members of the Estonian research team: Veronika Kalmus (veronika.kalmus [ät] ut.ee), Ragne Kõuts-Klemm (ragne.kouts [ät] ut.ee), Mai Beilmann (mai.beilmann [ät] ut.ee), Katrin Kello (katrin.kello [ät] ut.ee), Andu Rämmer (andu.rammer [ät] ut.ee) ja Signe Opermann (signe.opermann [ät] ut.ee). Funded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union	MSHUH14191R GA no: 649538	Veronika Kalmus
2015-2018	The Paradox of Health Care Futures Explores future trajectories of European health politics and policies through an investigation of the impact of recent health reforms on health inequalities, health expenditures, and public attitudes towards both the health system and the welfare state. This project will investigate health policy developments from 1990 to the present in Estonia, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Portugal and Sweden. The impact of these policy changes will be analysed using quantitative data found in both national and international sources. Team is comprised of qualitative and quantitative researchers from the fields of Political Science and Sociology, whose combined expertise in-cludes health politics, health policy, demography, migration, compara-tive and European politics, and the politics and sociology of the welfare state. The comparative and transnational design of the project will al-low us to provide insights into health inequalities, the meaning of the welfare state for individuals, and the future politics of the welfare state, as well as to provide health policy-makers with important feedback on their policies.	MSHUH14155	Mare Ainsaar
2014-2016	Children's Rights behind Bars. Human rights of children deprived of liberty: improving monitoring mechanisms	MSHUH14031	Judit Strömpl
2015-2016	SIBREC The social work team of Tartu University is engaged in an international research on social inclusion of marginalised and vulnerable groups in the Balitc Region (SIBREC), financed by the Swedish Institute. The overarching objective is to work on social inclusion of marginalised and vulnerable groups in the Baltic region by combining ecologic initiatives, social care and entrepreneurship. An example is to establish in a remote area a social enterprise where disabled people are integrated in the local community by taking part in social, ecological and farming activities. On a more strategic level it is the challenge to integrate different domains and disciplines in creating stronger community live aiming at sustainability and social responsibility. SIBREC project partners are from 7 organisations and 5 countries. Coordinator is Relearn Suderbyn (Sweden), partner organizations are Tartu University, Mykolas Romeris University (Lithuania), Baltic Ecovillage Network, Latvian Community Initiatives Foundation, Transition Järna (Sweden) ja Resource (Russia). The project is seen as a first step in creating one or more Nordic European networks on this theme and to develop innovations, supported by research, for improving social inclusion in a sustainable perspective. As areas to explore, the project team identified in its first meeting in Riga the following: 1. Research & evidence based conceptual framework 2. Education for people without special needs (courses in university, school) 3. Education for the marginalised/vulnurable groups 4. Therapy through natural building, permaculture. Nature therapy and riding therapy 5. Transformational green business 6. Integration & acceptance in the mainstream society 7. Living & working together (community). The macro perspective behind the project was found in the concepts of multilevel strategy and social entrepreneurship. Multilevel means a constructive interplay between all actors (vertical and horizontal). Social entrepreneurship is to characterize as aiming at social objectives by not-for-profit enterprises that are transparent, based on the principle of social justice and sustainability, and engaging stakeholders, among them volunteers and target groups representatives. The specific role of Tartu University in this stage of the project is to collect good practices, to analyse EU and Estonian policy documents, and from there to develop together with all partners the conceptual framework. Project activities are related to the master course SHSS.02.008 International Social Policy, International Social Work and Community Work. Dagmar Narusson dagmar.narusson [ät] ut.ee Hans van Ewijk hans.van.ewijk [ät] ut.ee OFFICIAL PARTNERS		Dagmar Narusson, Hans van Ewijk
2012-2015	FP7 project: UaESMC In this project, we will bring the techniques and tools for Secure Multiparty Computation (SMC) to a level where they can be applied to decisional and computational pröblems of practical size in several different social and economic sectors. To achieve this, we will apply a multi-pronged research effort to build the theoretical foundations for the practical aspects of SMC application. Our project will combine the identification of a representative set of computational problems, the development of appropriate cryptographic and other tools for solving those probiems in a privacy-preserving manner, the study of incentives of various parties to participate in privacy-preserving computations, and the exploration of practical limits and trade-offs in the deployment of SMC solutions. All these research areas will be explored in tight cooperation, as advances in any of them will shift priorities in all other areas. Through the integrated effort we hope to build a framework that allows us to place any multiparty computation problem in the appropriate context and to see whether and how the privacy issues in this problem can be mitigated. While cryptographic techniques for SMC have been studied before in Europe, our quest for identifying the other enablers of SMC through an integrated research effort appears to be novel. We believe that the research activities structured in this manner will in the fastest possible way bring us closer to our long-term goal of the privacy requirements of the input data of a computation notbeing a consideration whetherto perform it.	MSHZU12009R	Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt
2011-2014	FLOWS - Impact of local welfare systems on female labour force participation and social Cohesion The aim of this project is to analyse how local welfare provision affects the labour market participation of women, and how female employment in turn affects the life-course (of women and men), structures of inequality, social cohesion and hence the sustainability of the European social model. Two types of welfare provision have been singled out to be of major importance for female employment: care and human capital investments. The project will analyse the political autonomy of local political actors vis-ä-vis national and EU policy making, including culture as an important explanatory variable. Culture is included in two dimensions: First, women's disposition to participate on the labour market is seen as culturally embedded, while cultural ideals and values play an important role in how policies are perceived and rendered practically useful by women Second, local cultural values and belief systems condition creativity among political actors and stakeholders, and thus impact on local policies, which may divert from national or intemational intentions. The project will thus provide a basis for understanding how culture may constrain the transferability of best practices from one country/locality to another. Overall this project will pave the way for evidence based urban policy recommendations for local welfare system improvement in order to enhance economic growth, female employment and social cohesion..	MSHSS10196R	Dagmar Kutsar
2011-2014	EU Kids Online III Project aims The network will identify all available research, update and extend the EU Kids Online publicly accessible database (adding summaries of recent findings and including all member states) to pinpoint strengths and gaps in the existing evidence base. Hypotheses and comparisons The network will conduct in depth statistical analyses of the comparative data from EU Kids Online II in response to the questions arising from ongoing research and policy debates, and will publish these in a series of concise research reports. Exploring children’s understanding of risk The network will explore new and creative ways to research the meanings of risk online for children, using methodological innovations and traditional approaches to generate focused and comparable qualitative findings. Participating countries Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the UK.	MSOZU07085	Veronika Kalmus
2010- 2013	MEDIADEM European Media Policies Revisited: Valuing and Reclaiming Free and Independent Media in Contemporary Democratic Systems MEDIADEM seeks to understand and explain the factors that promote (or conversely hinder) the development of policies for free and independent media. The project will combine a country-based study in Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Italy, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey and the UK with a comparative analysis across media sectors and types of media services, and will investigate the complex array of policy approaches and regulatory and self-regulatory practices established to safeguard media freedom and independence. In order to verify whether regulatory measures actually advance a more democratic political order through the diversification of media outlets, sources and content, the project will place them in their proper sociopolitical, economic and cultural context, and will examine how state and non-state perceptions about the role the media should play in contemporary society influence the implementation of the norms enacted. Project's website Findings Background information report (The case of Estonia) Case study report (The case of Estonia)	MSHZU10030R	Halliki Harro-Loit
2013	ESS7 Cognitive Interviewing	MSHSS13069	Mare Ainsaar
2010-2013	MediaAct: Media Accountability and Transparency in Europe A comparative research project on media accountability and transparency in EU member states as indicators for media pluralism in Europe. The project will provide pioneer work in analysing the development and impact of established media accountability systems (i.e. press councils, ethics codes) as well as new media accountability systems emerging in the Internet (i.e. media criticism in blogs, online ombudsmen) on journalists and media managers in the various journalism cultures and media systems in Europe. The project will be a joint interdisciplinary effort of a team of 12 partners from Eastern and Western Europe as well as from the Arab world. The practical outcome of the project will be formulation of media-policy recommendations.	MSHZU10056R	Halliki Harro-Loit
2009-2012	GTO project Coordinator: University of Södertörn The aim of the research project “Constrution and normalisation of gender online among young people in Estonia and Sweden” [the.GTO.project] is to study how gender is created, expressed and normalized in online environments among young people (age 10 to 14 years old) in Estonia and Sweden. Furthermore, we will study what meaning this creation of identity has in their everyday life.		Andra Siibak
2009-2012	Economic and cultural implications of Social Network Sites – A case study of Estonia and Germany Social Network Sites have gained in popularity around the world. Examples include global giants, such as Facebook, and national or regional Social Network Sites, such as rate.ee in Estonia and werkennt-wen.de in Germany. The aim of the proposed research project is to gain a better understanding of both the economic and cultural processes associated with the increasing popularity of Social Network Sites. The understanding of the economic implications includes the understanding of companies’ choice of strategy, both domestically and internationally, as well as the impact that Social Network Sites have on the success of corporate media content. The understanding of the cultural implications of Social Network Sites includes the understanding of the users’ demand for cultural proximity in Social Network Sites and the extent to which they use Social Network Sites for the processes of crosscultural dialogue and the reproduction of cultural identity. The proposed research will include Estonia and Germany as case studies, which will both serve as starting points for studying companies’ strategies and for studying users’ behavior and preferences. The methodology that will be applied includes 1) semi-structured, indepth interviews with companies’ managers, 2) online user surveys and focus group interviews with users, and 3) desk-research related to the trade press and companies’ documentations, as well as the study of market reports and statistics.	MJD18	Ulrike Rohn
2010-2012	GINI project The GINI Project studies the economic and educational drivers and the social, cultural and political impacts of increasing inequality with novel contributions on the measurement of income, wealth and education inequality. See project website here.		Anu Masso
2010-2012	ROBERT - Risk Taking Online Behaviour Empowerment through Research and Training This proposal draws upon the experiences of young people who have been subjected to online grooming, along with accounts from specific groups of youth with known vulnerabilities, and those adults who have offended. This rich and unique data set is largely gained from existing therapeutic alliances and is analysed alongside of a systematic review of both published and unpublished material drawn from twenty EU member counties as well as the US and Russia. Central to the proposal is the accounts from young people, obtained through interviews and focus groups, which will be analysed using qualitative methods. 30 semi-structured interviews by therapists across 6 countries will target experiences of grooming behaviour from the perspective of the young people. In addition 7 countries will engage with specific groups of young people, using focus group methodology, to explore perceived vulnerabilities and resiliencies. These accounts will be integrated with a smaller data set drawn from 20 interviews with offenders who have been convicted of grooming offences. The interviews will take place in three countries by the offender's key workers. This triangulation of data sources will ensure the quality of the data analysis and help generate a theoretical model which will inform future research, practice and policy. This work will expand the knowledge of practitioners working with both young people and offenders through: a systematic analysis of existing research and practice publications; the development of interview tools to help with the collection of future information from children; the identification of vulnerabilities and resiliencies across different groups of young people; an examination of the experiences of both youth and offenders to strengthen the protection of young people in the online environment. This work will continue beyond the life of the project through the materials generated and the networks formed, and will be disseminated though practice and academic publications and the development of web based platforms for sharing both current and future research within a scientist-practitioner framework.	MSHSS10025	Mare Ainsaar
2008-2011	Security Communication strategies of public authorities (including media strategies) before, during and after crises concerning risks, security threats and measures	MSOZU07230R	Halliki Harro-Loit
2008-2011	Developing a Crisis Communication Scorecard	MSHZU07230R	Halliki Harro-Loit
2009-2011	EU Kids Online	MSOZU07085	Veronika Kalmus
2005-2010	Economic Change, Quality of Life and Social Cohesion	MSOSS05185R	Dagmar Kutsar
2009-2010	Sociogeek - An international research project for a comparative study on self-exhibition on Web 2.0		Andra Siibak
2007-2009	Peer Violence in the Public Space. Everyday Experiences of Young Teenagers in Disadvantaged Neighbourhoods.	MSOSS07042	Judit Strömpl
2007-2009	Ways of implementing the EU directives on violence against women, children and youth: Good practices and recommendation.	MSOSS08014	Kadri Soo
2007-2009	EL Daphne projekt 2006-1/098 'Propossing New Indicators: Measuring Violence's Effects'	MSOSS07091	Anu Laas
2007-2009	Leonardo da Vinci project “EQUIP-European framework of qualifications in home care for older people”	MSOSS08011	Reeli Sirotkina

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