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2026–2027

Preliminary Assessment of Financial Instruments Planned for the European Union Budgetary Period 2028–2034

The aim of the project is to establish an evidence-based basis for deciding where and how to use financial instruments during the European Union budgetary period 2028–2034, and in which situations they should be combined with grants. The preliminary assessment will help ensure that the European Union funds available to Estonia are directed to where they are most needed and where they can have the greatest impact.

2025–2027

Teasa: Techno-Anthropology of heat in Social housing Retrofits

The project aims to understand why some retrofit solutions fail to create the expected sense of comfort, highlighting the distinction between measurable thermal energy and the perceived feeling of “cosiness” in the home.

2026

Citizens for EU Enlargement – Building Societal Readiness for an Enlarged European Union

The aim of the project is to increase people’s understanding of the expansion of the EU, minimise the misconceptions related to it and support a more informed public debate over the future of Europe.

2025–2027

School/Culture Collaborations for Civic Engagement and Critical Citizenship Education

The aim of the study is to map examples of good practice, analyse the current situation, and support transnational learning.

2026–2027

Women with migration background and domestic abuse: How to support the women?

This project maps the situation of immigrant women in terms of their exposure to gender-based violence and intimate partner violence (hereinafter: GBV/IPV) and their ability to find help.

2026–2027

Estonian Integration Monitoring 2026

The 2026 Estonian Integration Monitoring analyses indicators reflecting the cohesion of Estonian society, adaptation and integration processes, including the adaption of new immigrants, and highlights long-term societal development trends based on the term societal development trends based on comparisons with previous monitoring periods.

2026–2027

Building Awareness and Critical Knowledge through Training, Reflection, Action, and Community Knowledge (BACKTRACK)

The project’s goal is to enhance the population’s resilience to disinformation through culturally adapted and evidence-based interventions.

2026

Applied research on companies’ motivation for the adoption of digital solutions

The objective of the study is to map the factors that facilitate or hinder the adoption of digital solutions (including automated data exchange, data-driven reporting, e-invoicing, etc.) in Estonian companies and to determine how to design government interventions that better meet the needs of both entrepreneurs and software developers.

2026–2028

Bottom-Up Initiatives for a Living Democracy and Fair Futures in Digitalisation and Migration (Build Fair)

The overall objective is to strengthen public debate between countries on fairness within EU digital and migration policies and to meaningfully integrate the views of citizens and stakeholders into the design of national and EU-level policy solutions.

2025–2026

Evaluation of the implementation of the safety development programme and the development and testing of an efficiency assessment model

The study focuses on how the safety development program functions during the implementation of activities, what added value it creates, and what conditions would help make the programme even more effective.

2025–2026

Content analysis of trainings and materials from the adaptation programme modules and the mid-term evaluation of the adaptation programme

Within the framework of the project, the role of IBS is to conduct 1) a content analysis of the trainings and materials for the adaptation modules and 2) a mid-term evaluation of the adaptation programme.

2025–2026

Mid-Term evaluation of the “Cohesive Estonia Strategy 2021–2030”

Within the framework of this project, the Institute of Baltic Studies will evaluate and clarify the effectiveness, relevance, and efficiency of the implementation of the “Cohesive Estonia Development Plan”.

2025–2027

“Youth Aware of Mental Health” effectiveness evaluation in Estonia

The aim of the study is to evaluate the YAM program in youth mental health and suicide prevention implemented in Estonia in 2026–2027 to explore if the program is suitable for the Estonian context or if it needs adaptation.

2025–2027

Crisis preparedness study

Recent years have shown that crisis preparedness in Estonia is uneven –…