Topic: research

Research in the UniTartu Asia Center

On 23 May 2025, Minister of Education and Research Kristina Kallas approved the results of the external evaluation of Estonian research and development. The University of Tartu was the only institution in Estonia to receive a positive evaluation in all six fields: natural sciences, engineering and technology, medical and health sciences, agriculture and veterinary sciences, social sciences, and humanities and the arts.

Summary of a conference on “Engaging with India in a Multi-Polar World” held in May 2025. Organized by the Asia Centre and Centre for Oriental Studies, in collaboration with Tallinn Embassy of India.

Led by the Dean’s Office of the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Centre for Sustainable Development of the University of Tartu, a guidance material has been developed for researchers on how to conduct interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research.

Speakers from each field are invited to give engaging presentations in Estonian or English, outlining the importance and results of their research.

Anastasia Sinitsyna defended her doctoral thesis "Links between segregation processes on the labour and housing markets: evidence from Finland"

Ghent University, Groningen University, Georg-August Universität Göttingen, the University of Tartu and the Department of International and Cross-Strait Education (DICE), MoE, Taiwan have launched a call for a professorial fellow for the "Taiwan Studies Programme.

On 23rd of January, Anastasia Sinitsyna (scientific project manager) and Elo Süld (head of Centre) took part at the first review meeting of European Commission funded project ReConnect China.

Baltic Alliance for Asian Studies (BAAS) 6th conference 2024 - Call for Abstracts

As part of ‘Women in Science’ theme week, two Asia Centre’s research fellows open up about why they have chosen the profession of researcher. As the second researcher, we talked with Anastasia Sinitsyna.