Estonian Research Council organises the evaluations of research and development. Evaluation means external evaluation of research and development, which since 2010 is carried out either as a regular evaluation for assessing the level of a field of research, or as a targeted evaluation for developing research policy and for obtaining the information necessary for organising of research and development in a field of science.
Legislation of Regular Evaluation
Application for regular evaluation (in Estonian)
Guidance-material-for-self-report
Annex 1 of Assessment criteria for regular evaluation (list of doctoral programmes)
Organisation of Research and Development Act
Positively evaluated R&D institutions
| Research performing organisation | Field of research evaluated | Date of decision approval |
| Center of Food and Fermentation Technologies | natural sciences | 22 August 2017 |
| Cybernetica AS | natural sciences | 22 August 2017 |
| Estonian Biocentre (University of Tartu)* | natural sciences | 22 August 2017 |
| Icosagen Cell Factory OÜ | medical and health sciences | 04 December 2020 |
| Institute of the Estonian Language | humanities and the arts | 22 August 2017 |
| Estonian Literary Museum | humanities and the arts | 22 August 2017 |
| Estonian Academy of Arts | humanities and the arts
natural sciences and engineering |
22 August 2017
23 January 2014 |
| Estonian University of Life Sciences | natural sciences
engineering and technology agricultural and veterinary sciences |
22 August 2017
22 August 2017 22 August 2017 |
| Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre | humanities and the arts | 22 August 2017 |
| Estonian National Museum | humanities and the arts | 22 August 2017 |
| Estonian Crop Research Institute | agricultural and veterinary sciences | 22 August 2017 |
| Under and Tuglas Literature Centre of the Estonian Academy of Sciences | humanities and the arts | 22 August 2017 |
| Estonian Business School | social sciences | 22 August 2017 |
| National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics | natural sciences
engineering and technology medical and health sciences |
22 August 2017
22 August 2017 22 August 2017 |
| Protobios OÜ | medical and health sciences | 22 August 2017 |
| Tallinn University of Technology | natural sciences
engineering and technology medical and health sciences agricultural and veterinary sciences social sciences humanities and the arts |
22 August 2017
22 August 2017 22 August 2017 22 August 2017 22 August 2017 22 August 2017 |
| Tallinn University | natural sciences
social sciences humanities and the arts |
22 August 2017
22 August 2017 22 August 2017 |
| STACC OÜ (prior Software Technology and Applications Competence Center) | natural sciences | 22 August 2017 |
| Tartu Observatory (University of Tartu)* | natural sciences | 22 August 2017 |
| University of Tartu | natural sciences
engineering and technology medical and health sciences agricultural and veterinary sciences social sciences humanities and the arts |
22 August 2017
22 August 2017 22 August 2017 22 August 2017 22 August 2017 22 August 2017 |
| National Institute for Health Development | medical and health sciences | 22 August 2017 |
| Competence Centre on Health Technologies | health sciences | 11 June 2015 |
| BioCC LLC (prior Bio-Competence Centre of Healthy Dairy Products LLC) | biosciences and environment | 18 November 2015 |
*01.01.2018 – joined to University of Tartu
Targeted Evaluation Reports
Evaluation of Estonian Professorships in Research Areas of National Significance (2016)
Evaluation of Research in Law 2009-2014 (2015)
Evaluation of Research in ICT 2009-2014 (2015)
Evaluation of Research in Energetics 2008-2012 (2014)
Evaluation of Research in Civil Engineering 2008-2012 (2014)
Evaluation of Educational Research 2007-2011 (2013)
Evaluation of Plant and Soil Science Research 2006-2010 (2012)
Contact
Triinu Soomere
Coordinator of R&D evaluations
Tel +372 5699 8389
triinu.soomere@etag.ee