The programme aims to promote awareness, enhance competitiveness and greater use of intellectual property protection toolkit to ensure domestic enterprises and research institutions about its functioning of the market and R & D & I activity funds. The increase of foreign industrial property
Two national funding instruments terminate in 2016: targeted financing of research topics and the Estonian Science Foundation (ETF) grants. Newly the Estonian Research Council (ETAg) is to finance national basic and applied research and researcher mobility.
ELMO stands for electromobility in Estonia. The ELMO programme promotes emission free personal transportation and electric cars in order to achieve better city environment, energy efficiency and fuel independence.
The Government of the Republic of Estonia concluded a contract with Mitsubishi
Estonia's transport sector consists of railway, road, maritime, waterways and air transport, as well as pipeline transport and urban electric transport. The communications system consists of postal services and telecommunications.The share of transport and communications sector in GDP accounts for
The programme is based on results of monitoring road conditions. The following parameters are included: international roughness index, depth of ruts, calculated damage value, and bearing capacity. The actual condition of each road section is determined using limit values of the above-mentioned
Because public roads are fixed, have a long lifetime and are expensive, the development, maintenance, operation and reconstruction must be prepared with detailed research work. The development, operation and maintenance of public roads will be a national and communal duty also in the future, as will
In 1992 the government - with regard to the high number of road accidents and the scale of the loss to the national economy resulting from these - with the 2002/1992 (HT.2.) government regulation directed the working out of the National Transport Safety Programme (NKP).The finished NKP was accepted
In spite of the rapid increase of the motor vehicle fleet, the Estonian road safety level remains as one of the worst in Europe. Comparison of two basic safety indicators with neighbouring countries shows the huge difference: Fatality risk per 100 000 population during the years 1998 -2002 was 16.8
The following fields connect to the transport environmental research and development:Air protection, noise reduction, regular control of the environmental inspection of vehicles, measuring emissions of motorcycles, enforcement of the EGB regulations, supervision of noise problems on transport