As a result of the project, an internationally competitive institute of physics was completed. Research environment meeting contemporary international requirements and conditions is attractive to both young scientists that are just starting out in research and to experienced scientists. The institute of physics houses foremost laboratories and offices for researchers, but also auditoriums and practice rooms for carrying out research and teaching of physics, information technology and material technology.

Results of Project

• As a result of the project, an internationally competitive institute of physics was completed.
• The project has an impact that supports regional development. The projects makes a significant contribution to developing Tartu as an internationally competitive education and research campus.
• The project modernised the working environment of 286 researchers.
• 43 new jobs were created by 2015.

Baltic Film and Media School (BMF) has become the Baltic Film, Media, Arts and Communication School that brings together creative people and all fine arts taught in Tallinn University. The new building named NOVA is the heart of the institute. It is an open centre that successfully integrates different areas of culture and offers different practical solutions for carrying out projects and promoting creative industries.

Results of Project

• The new attractive environment has created many new opportunities for international cooperation. Today, BMF has students from more than 40 countries and cooperation with more than 70 universities across the world.

The success story of the new academic building of Narva College probably lies in its surprising exterior.

At the same time, it is important to remember why the new academic building was built. Students and employees of Narva College needed contemporary working conditions in order for the college to continue its primary activity. Warm, ventilated and lit academic and working rooms are essential to offer world class higher education. The college also required a building adapted specifically for supporting the activities of Narva College. While it was anticipated in the course of planning the new academic building that the college may become something more than simply a higher education centre in Ida-Viru County, no one expected such a wave of attention that they were caught in after moving into the new academic building. Today, in addition to being an education centre, Narva College has also become a community centre in the city of Narva, a reliable partner within Estonia and across borders.

Results of Project

• In the course of the project, the academic building of the University of Tartu Narva College was built on the territory of Narva Old Town, and it was furnished according to the needs of the college. Compared to the old academic building, the college received a small conference centre accommodating up to 300 people.
• The number of study rooms increased by a few auditoriums, and a high quality cafe is operating in the college rooms.
• Both students and employees want to spend their time in the college even after their working day is over. The college offers enjoyable atmosphere and mood for it.
• Thanks to the new academic building, the third largest city in Estonia got its old town back. True, all the buildings in the old town have been destroyed, but establishing the new academic building of the University of Tartu Narva College restored the knowledge among locals that it had once been a highly reputable part of the city that may once again rise up on its feet one day.

Building a contemporary and internationally competitive academic and administrative centre of the Estonian Aviation Academy in Ülenurme. The new building was built in the vicinity of the operating airport and therefore in a natural and logical environment for teaching aviation. The building was designed as a three-branch two-storey construction with a flat roof, the enclosed gross surface area of which is 4,881.9 m².

Results of Project

• New academic building, which decreased heating costs and logistics costs.
• The academic building can house several simulators necessary for studying (tower simulator and radar simulator for air traffic controllers and airplane and helicopter simulator for pilots).
• An opportunity to increase the volume of in-service training and development activity.

The new academic building of  Tallinn University of Technology has working and studying places for more than 2,000 people, 13% of these for academic and research staff and administrative staff and 87% for students. The investment was used to complete the new building and furnish it with contemporary furnishings and technology.

Results of Project

• New academic building of Tallinn University of Technology was built and furnished.
• Tallinn School of Economics and Business Administration and the faculty of humanities was brought over to Mustamäe campus from different parts of the city and from buildings requiring reconstruction, also the learning centre Audentes that joined the former.
• The building created prerequisites for integrating technological and economic teaching in a higher volume than before according to the contemporary requirements. The surface area of the building to be constructed is 10.3 thousand m2, of which 95.46% is effective area. The building has contemporary working and studying places for 2,101 people (277 working places and 1,715 studying places). 88.4% are rooms intended for academic work.

The project developed the Tartu Observatory located in Tõravere, Nõo Rural Municipality, Tartu County, into a contemporary centre for space research and technology. The project has created the infrastructure necessary for achieving and maintaining international competitiveness.

Tartu Observatory continues to operate as a leading Estonian research centre for space research and technology, carrying out basic research in astronomy and helping to resolve issues associated with monitoring the environment and contributing to Estonian substantive cooperation with the European Space Agency (ESA). Thanks to the establishment of a laboratory complex, Tartu Observatory has been able to contribute more to applied research and development activity in addition to carrying out high level basic research. Investments made into building the laboratories and the high level of scientific competence has given Estonian scientists the opportunity to showcase their capability in international space cooperation. Tartu Observatory is also the first in Estonia to win a contract in the open procurement round of the ESA.

Results of Project

• Three-storey main building was renovated and an extension with a surface area of approx. 720 m2 was established.
• Both the ventilation, cooling and electricity system and the communications network were updated, the building was insulated and received a new external and internal finish.
• New active equipment of the computer network, equipment for the computer class and the information centre, furnishings, office equipment and furniture was purchased.
• ogether with creating contemporary opportunities for research, activities popularising science have also been taken to a new level. In addition to tours introducing astronomy, the visitor centre can also carry out active learning programmes introducing remote monitoring, space technology and satellites.

The general objective of the project was to ensure the sustainability and international competitiveness of biotechnology as one of the key fields of research and development in Estonia. Achieving this object is possible thanks to the development of the Gene and Biotechnology Centre (hereinafter GBC) meeting the needs of contemporary research trends and the development of the business sector on the basis of the Estonian Biocentre (hereinafter EBC) and the University of Tartu (hereinafter UT) Riia and Vanemuise St. campus.

Results of Project

• Through the established contemporary working environment, cooperation of Estonian research and development activity in the field of biotechnology has increased.
• Research and development infrastructure has been built.
• Appropriate gene bank has been established.

The objective of the project was the extension of an archive space and working rooms to the extent of approximately 2,880 m² of floor space; Turning rooms to be freed in the historic street building into working rooms to the extent of approximately 360 m², restoring the interior in a manner similar to the original; tying extensions built in different periods of time into a uniform architectural whole. The planned lifetime of the new construction is 100 years.

Results of Project

• As a memorial institution, the Estonian Literary Museum can thanks to the extension and renovated rooms perform its national cultural mission and its obligation before the state and the people of Estonia provided for in the Constitution with better success than before.
• Turning rooms to be freed in the historic street building into working rooms to the extent of approximately 360 m².
• Extension of archive space and working rooms to the extent of approximately 2,880 m² of floor space.
• Improved preservation conditions and processing and opportunities for digitisation.
• Special treatment repository.

The Centre for Renewable Natural Resources was born out of the necessity to bring structural units of the Estonian University of Life Sciences engaging in so-called green research together to one place. Botanists, zoologists and mycologists from Riia Street and structural units that had belonged to the former institute of agronomics from Eerika Street moved to the centre of renewable natural resources completed as an expansion of the Institute of Forestry and Rural Engineering. The new research centre also has contemporary storage rooms for natural scientific collections – the 600-square-meter area houses herbariums for fungi and plant diseases, entomological collections, herbarium for vascular plants and mosses, and a soil museum. The decision to establish the Centre for Renewable Natural Resources specifically as an extension of the Estonian University of Life Sciences Institute of Forestry and Rural Engineering gave an additional opportunity for intra-institute cooperation, also for joint use of research laboratories, equipment and auditoriums. Implementation of the project realised a great objective of the Estonian University of Life Sciences – to bring structural units located in Tartu to the university campus.

Results of Project

• Centre for Renewable Natural Resources with an effective area of over 4,335 square meters that houses workplaces for 164 researchers was developed.
• The number of students using new and contemporary rooms is 2,247.
• The project significantly improved working conditions, which increases the quality of research and provides better opportunities for at least 102 PhD students associated with the new centre to improve the scientific competitiveness of their research base and Estonian scientific competitiveness in the respective field as a whole.
• The project contributes to a reasonable use of renewable natural resources through developing respective scientific directions.