Estonian Research Council

The Estonian Research Council (Eesti Teadusagentuur, ETAG) is a private body fulfilling public functions, responsible to the Ministry of Education and Research. ETAG is a research funding organisation with the main goal to support the most promising high-level science excellency research initiatives in all fields of basic and applied research including humanities and social sciences and to use state budget appropriations to award peer-reviewed research grants on a competitive basis. Council facilitates Estonian researchers' international collaboration. Estonian Research Council is responsible for cooperation with Science Europe, participation partnerships, ERA-NETs and international bi- and multinational cooperation programmes. ETAG acts as a National Contact Point (NCP) in Framework Programme, coordinates participation in the COST network and offering counselling of mobile researchers through the EURAXESS network.