The article discusses certain widespread confusing notions about social sciences and their place in the society.
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Siim Kallas | Presentation in the Riigikogu at the 1st Reading of the Draft State Budget Act 2000 |
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Kalle Jürgenson | State Budget 2000, What and Why? |
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Olev Raju | Commentaries on the State Budget 2000 |
Madis Võõras | Estonia on the Way to Full Membership of the European Space Agency |
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Ene Ergma | Estonia Has Become a Space State |
Urve Läänemets | A Good Teacher Should Be Ready to Learn Also from the Pupils |
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Külli Eichenbaum | Using the Local Peculiarities of Old Võromaa |
The article discusses certain widespread confusing notions about social sciences and their place in the society.
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Psychology can aid policymaking in three main areas.
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The article focuses on two interrelated topics.
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The article looks at the Estonian earth’s crust and bio-economy resources on the basis of two large applied research projects. The concept of the article has been prepared with the support of funding from the Estonian Research Council. On the basis of the experiences of the practical carrying out of these projects, it can be discussed if, why and how Estonia as a country with a large renewable and non-renewable resource stock should invest in the research and development of resources in order to realise its development potential.
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Tourism has become the most important source of income in many countries. World practice has shown that no country has become tourist destination by itself, but with years of targeted work in developing and implementing national tourism policies. Recent years have been successful for the Estonian tourism. According to the statistics, 2.14 million foreign tourists stayed in accommodation establishments in 2018, the export of tourism services accounted for 10.2% of the Estonian goods and services exports and the share of tourism in GDP and employment was approximately 8 per cent, taking into account indirect effects.
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The democratic potential of the Estonian society can be assessed through the younger generation – what the patterns of their participation, their attitudes towards social-political topics and their barriers to being active citizens are.
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In recent years, the education researchers at the University of Tartu have focused on ways to support the development of students’ generic skills in Estonian schools, where the national curriculum is subject-based and teaching has traditionally focused on subjects.
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Should all children, regardless of their mother tongue, study in the Estonian language? What is the most effective linguistic arrangement for minority pupils in Estonia? Is bilingual education more effective for minority pupils, compared to monolingual education in Russian as the mother tongue with Estonian as the second language?
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Nikolai Maim (1884–1976) was the only professor present at the opening of the Faculty of Law of the Estonian-language University of Tartu on 1 December 1919.
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