SIHTASUTUSE ARCHIMEDES Aastaraamat

Archimedes Foundation in 2005
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In addition to the Guide, several leaflets and other promotional materials were published. Altogether 6 articles
were published in the newsletter Innovaatika.
Archimedes Foundation continued the development of the Estonian mobility portal smartEstonia.ee, and
promoted the usage of the European Researcher's Mobility Portal europa.eu.int/eracareers among the Estonian
research community.
Training sessions
Training sessions for the staff of the mobility centres was continued in the Spring semester with 40
participants.
Launching conference
In order to mark the full operability of the Estonian network, a launching conference was organised in September
2005. The conference attracted more than 70 participants from different levels of the research community,
including professors, research administrators, and junior researchers.
European level
Archimedes Foundation and the Estonian Academy of Sciences represented the Estonian network at ERA-
MORE meetings in Brussels. Representatives of the local mobility centres were involved in training sessions
at European level, organised by the European Commission. The year was peaked by the second annual
conference of ERA-MORE in Bled, Slovenia, where all members of the Estonian network participated. The
Archimedes Foundation contributed to the conference with two presentations.
Young scientists
Estonian National Contest for Young Scientists at high-school level
The aim of the contest is to acknowledge the research performed in Estonian schools and to give recognition
to young people who have achieved outstanding results.
In 2005, the Archimedes Foundation in cooperation with the Ministry of Education and Research and the AHHAA
Science Centre carried out the fourth Estonian Young Scientists contest for school students.
58 studies from 70 authors from 37 schools were submitted to the contest of 2005.