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Slavica Revalensia of the Institute of the Slavonic Languages and Cul- tures was published. The journal is dedicated to Slavonic and Russian philology.
In the spring of 2014, TU held a competition for the most outstand- ing research publications and creative projects, the laureates were the following:
» The best monograph: Irina Belobrovtseva, Aleksandr Danilevski
and David Vseviov “An Image of the Enemy: Portrayal of Estonia
in the Soviet Caricature of 1920 - 1940s”;
» The best article in the field of humanities: Aivar Põldvee “The
Birth of Vanemuine. Additions to the History of Estonian Pseu-
do-Mythology”;
» The best article in the field of social sciences: Peeter Selg “The
Politics of Theory and the Constitution of Meaning”;
» The best article in the field of natural sciences: Jaanus Terasmaa, Liisa Puusepp, Agata Marzecova, Egert Vandel, Tiit Vaasma, Tiiu
Koff “Natural and human-induced environmental changes in Eastern Europe during the Holocene: a multi-proxy palaeolim- nological study of a small Latvian lake in a humid temperate zone”;
» The best article in the field of exact sciences: Kaia-Liisa Habicht, C. Frazier, N. Singh, Ruth Shimmo, I.W Wainer, R Moaddel “The Synthesis and characterization of nuclear membrane affinity chromatography column for the study of human breast cancer resistant protein (BCRP) using nuclear membranes obtained from the NL-229 cells”.
» The best study book: Rein Raud “What is Culture? Introduction to Cultural Theory” and Jaagup Kippar with a set of Web pro- gramming study books.
» The best creative project: Ann Lumiste, Peeter Simm, Anneli Ahven ja Elen Lotman “Architecture Films”;
» Additional prize: Monograph of Marju Kõivupuu “Every prob- lem and illness requires a different doctor”.
1.2. PARTICIPATION IN NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE
Tallinn University continued its participation as a partner in the work of two national research centres of excellence
The Centre of Excellence in Cultural Theory (01.02.2008– 31.08.2015): unites the Estonian high-level research groups of cul- tural theory and empirical cultural studies into an interdiscipli- nary centre of 8 thematically integrated research groups: semiotics,
archaeology, ethnology, folklore studies, contemporary culture, land- scape studies, culture communication studies and studies of religion. A total of 8 target-financed research topics from UT, TU and TUT participate in the project. Hannes Palang manages the TU participa-
tion in this project.
The main task of this Centre is to strengthen research coopera-
tion between different disciplines, which among other things, facili- tates improvement in the quality of Master´s and doctoral studies in the field of humanities at both UT and TU. During the year, research groups have jointly organised several seminars and public lectures. Since 2011, the Centre of Excellence has published its book series
“Approaches to Culture Theory”. In 2014, with the participation of the employees of the TU Estonian Institute of Humanities, a total of 5 articles were published in the book “Estonian Approaches to Culture Theory” (editors V. Lang & K. Kull).
Target-financed research topics from UT, TU and TUT partic- ipate in the work of Centre of Excellence in Mesosystems- Theory and Applications (01.01.2011– 31.12.2015). TU participated with the topic “Stochastic processes in nano- and mesosystems: Theory and applications in material sciences and bio-chemistry” (01.01.2012– 31.12.2014), managed by Professor Romi Mankin.
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