Current research, developmental and creative projects

FilmMemory – Joint Master of Arts in European Film Heritage, History and Cultures

01.11.2023 - 31.12.2029
Responsible executor: Vejune Zemaityte

FilmMemory is an Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters (EMJM) that deals with audio-visual heritage and with the preservation, restoration, recirculation, and utilisation of that heritage in the context of current and evolving screen cultures. The programme partly focuses on working with film stock archives, but also emphasises other contemporary challenges, including the role of digital media, tools, and associated skills, addressing emerging possibilities regarding the scope and dissemination of film heritage material. As a joint master's programme, taught in four countries across Europe, FilmMemory offers a thorough interrogation of the social, political, and industrial diversity of European film cultures. This includes the analysis of historical and contemporary modes of production, distribution and presentation, and the contextualization of filmic material within discourses of reception, critique, and scholarship. Students will explore the ways in which films and documents about film cultures are archived, preserved, restored, re-circulated, re-used and re-constructed. In this programme, “film” is understood- in its broad, expanded sense- to include audio-visual creations that are usually viewed on single screens, whether in cinemas, on television sets, or on computers and mobile devices. It is additionally understood to refer to moving image recordings including, but not limited to, feature-length fiction films, animation, documentary, non-fiction, broadcast material, and series. FilmMemory will play a significant role in providing specialists for audio-visual archives, cinemas, festivals, film funds, journals, museums, digital image processing labs, distribution companies, production companies, publishing/press agencies, and government agencies, where this kind of expertise, and associated skill sets, are in increasingly high demand.

Project page on ETIS: https://www.etis.ee/Portal/Projects/Display/b09a6d72-7c20-43d9-961a-0b9…

Project is funded by European Commission Erasmus programme.

WIRE – Widening Innovation+Research Excellence in FilmEU

01.01.2024 - 31.12.2028
Responsible executor: Teet Teinemaa

WIRE is promoted by all eight HEIs currently members or soon to be members in the FilmEU Alliance. FilmEU fully represents Europe’s geographical, cultural, and linguistic differences, combined with the diversity and richness of its European Higher Education Area (EHEA) and its Research Area (ERA). WIRE integrates five out of eight academic partners each coming from widening countries, a majority of less research-intensive institutions and is led by an institution from a widening country. All WIRE activities are centered in widening countries, and it is these countries and less research-intensive HEIs that are beneficiaries of the of the project. WIRE’s main objective is to catalyse a step change in the excellence and innovation of the science and value creation activities carried out by and across the FilmEU Alliance via its capacity building and the promotion of several reforms across the HEIs in widening countries participating in the Alliance. WIRE will capacitate the FilmEU Alliance Research and Innovation R&I dimensions, notably by focusing on management and administrative competencies, for the benefit of its members in widening countries, and through that increase the overall competitiveness of the Alliance. WIRE will achieve this through deeper and more geographically inclusive cooperation between all members of the Alliance. WIRE will contribute significantly to the expected outcomes of the call via the consolidation of an inclusive Alliance of HEIs which mostly (5 of 8) come from widening countries. Through collaboration between themselves and with other actors in local ecosystems, they will promote institutional and country-level reforms and upgrades, facilitate an embedded culture of excellence and value creation driven by artistic research, and focus on the cultural and creative industries, in view of increased competitiveness and accelerated institutional reforms in their R&I dimension.

Project page on ETIS: https://www.etis.ee/Portal/Projects/Display/d4327db7-e510-4715-bb0b-d02…

Project funded by European Commission European Horizon programme.

Cinematic minds behind-the-scenes: A neurophenomenological window to filmmaker's enactive cuing of expectations

01.01.2024 - 31.12.2028
Responsible executor: Pia Tikka

Experiences cued by audiovisual narratives in spectators have been widely studied in audience studies, psychology, and cognitive neurosciences. However, less is known about how the creators of cinema themselves experience the narratives. To access the creative process of professional filmmakers, we apply a multiperspectival approach that addresses three mutually time-locked representations of their experience: (1) subjective first-person reports, (2) neurophysiological observations, and (3) annotations of contents. Due to the fact that a great part of the creative process is hidden in the involved minds they are difficult to capture retrospectively. However, by innovatively combining micro-phenomenological interviews made during the act of filmmaking with established methods of cognitive sciences and film studies we envision new insights to the cinematic minds behind the screen.

Project page on ETIS: https://www.etis.ee/Portal/Projects/Display/b72d3e1c-add2-4365-baf1-577…

Project is funded by the Estonian Research Council

FilmEU Plus -  European Universities Alliance for Film and Media Arts

01.11.2023 - 31.10.2027
Responsible executor: Teet Teinemaa

FilmEU+ is the next stage in the European Universities Alliance for Film and Media Arts consolidation towards the deepening, expansion and intensification of the existing cooperation. The current project will advance ongoing cooperation and transformations involving all higher education institutions (HEIs) participating in the Alliance, towards the consolidation of a fully-fledged ‘European University of Film and Media Arts’. FilmEU+ builds on the Alliance' previous efforts and results and will continue to test diverse innovative and structural models for implementing and achieving systemic, structural and sustainable cooperation between participant HEIs. FilmEU + is an association of eight leading HEIs from across the member states and all parts of Europe. FilmEU fully represents Europe’s geographical, cultural and linguistic differences, but also the diversity and richness of its European Higher Education Area. What began as four partners during the design phase will now enlarge into an Alliance of eight partners in order to promote a much stronger, richer and more diverse partnership of eight like-minded institutions. We start from a clear disciplinary focus – namely the film and media arts, and now move to embrace the varied domains that the cultural and creative industries encompass. With FilmEU+ we want to consolidate our manifold but complementary programmes in filmic arts and other diverse but related fields across the cultural and creative industries, in order to further advance the positioning of Europe as a cuttingedge global provider of education, research and innovation in these domains. With FilmEU+ we want to fully attain all features of the new framework for cooperation set out in the European Strategy for Universities. This means we will make our European University concrete via its European degrees, joint structures and resources, and research initiatives that are supported and impelled by a legal statute that mutualises our strengths and empowers our institutions and the next generation of talents within the cultural and creative sectors in Europe. With FilmEU+ we foster sustainability, cohesion, entrepreneurship, employment, and, importantly, innovation and creativity as core constituents when shaping the future of Europe.

Project page on ETIS: https://www.etis.ee/Portal/Projects/Display/ddb3689d-f570-4a2c-b4d7-ef4…

COALESCE - Coordinated Opportunities for Advanced Leadership and Engagement in Science Communication in Europe

1.04.2023 - 31.03.2027
Responsible executor: Arko Olesk

COALESCE will consolidate, further develop, and mainstream generated knowledge and connections on science communication to build up the European Competence Centre for Science Communication. To achieve measurable and sustainable long-term impact of the Centre, project objectives will pivot on co-creation and co-design building on cooperative relationships with multiple stakeholders including scientific and journalist networks, as well as university alliances. COALESCE operates in relation to international, national and regional hubs and builds on an interdisciplinary approach. It will demonstrate the means for rapid mobilisation of scicomm in times of crisis while fighting misinformation and engendering trust in science. Supporting all of this will be an accessible library of critical resources, toolkits, handbooks and training opportunities to R&I  actors across the ERA. 

Project page on ETIS: https://www.etis.ee/Portal/Projects/Display/723208c7-377e-4ebe-aaeb-f63fea6e9d6e
Project information in CORDIS: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101095230

Project is funded by EU Horizon Europe programme

ArtR - Artrepreneneurs on the Edge: Artistic Autonomy, Marketization and the Organization of Creative Practice in the Baltic Sea Region

01.01.2024 - 31.12.2026
Responsible executor: Ulrike Rohn 

ArtR will perform an integrated research study that aims to improve our understanding of the impacts on artists of the introduction of the entrepreneurship model in the arts sector in two Nordic and two Baltic countries: Estonia, Finland, Sweden, and Lithuania, countries which have historically developed a strong public support framework for the arts, and share a commitment to creative industry policies, but differ in terms of cultural, economic and political conditions. The study will focus on the following research questions: 1) What are the main challenges and obstacles to the economic and social sustainability of artists’ work and creative practices? 2) To what extent can individual strategies and forms of collective organizing help artists to overcome these challenges? 3) How do cultural policy programs promoting entrepreneurship influence the way artists work and how do they relate to the local ideas of artistic freedom?

Project page on ETIS: https://www.etis.ee/Portal/Projects/Display/6890a318-6505-4417-9323-7d4…

Project funded by The Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies (Sweden)

The Public Value Chains of Cultural Open Data Solutions

01.01.2022 - 31.12.2026
Responsible executor: Indrek Ibrus

The project studies the complex ways in which cultural open data solutions could produce 'public value'. In conceptual terms it builds on Moore's and Mazzucato's work on public value, links these to our work on innovation systems in creative industries and investigates how new open data technologies such as the Semantic Web and blockchain could be seen as conditioning the emergence of new innovation systems, how they provide new tools for understanding the functioning of the related public sphere and of industry systems and how public value is produced within these systems. Our work in this project will be both empirical as well as applied, aimed at designing and testing new cultural open data management systems with Estonian Public Broadcasting. The project is highly international (studying multiple case studies across the world) and interdiscplinary (combining network science and data analytics with media and innovation economics, anthropology, information systems design and others). 

Project page on ETIS: https://www.etis.ee/Portal/Projects/Display/1bc55019-56e6-4dad-8c54-ea38f427e133 

Project is funded by the Estonian Research Council

KEM - KinoEyes - The European Film Masters

15.09.2020 - 15.09.2026
Responsible executor: Mart Raun

KEM is an original study programme that seeks to promote new teaching and learning opportunities for learners and teachers in the areas of fiction film making and creativity studies. This two year MA programme is a highly intensive fiction film making masters degree supported by ERASMUS+

Project website: https://www.kinoeyes.eu/ 

KEM is supported by ERASMUS+ programme.

CresCine - Increasing the International Competitiveness of the Film Industry in Small European Markets

1.03.2023 - 28.02.2026
Responsible executor: Ulrike Rohn
Project coordinator: Elena Stern

CRESCINE’s mission is to increase the competitiveness of the film industry across small countries in Europe and improve the circulation of films and AV content coming from small markets internationally. CRESCINE’s aims to enhance the competitiveness and the cultural diversity of the European film industry. This will be achieved by understanding, engaging with, empowering, and ultimately transform European small markets setting out from research and piloting in 7 markets. In their “smallness", these markets underline the challenges and drivers one must consider to increase the competitiveness of the EU film industry as all. CRESCINE will address, systematically, the whole film production, distribution and consumption  ecosystem. The aim is to innovate at all levels of the value chain, from policies to ways of data  management and analytics, production business models and modes of distribution.
CRESCINE will develop novel tools, methods, and strategic approaches that all build on the concept of smallness and the positive affordances it entails for the overall competitiveness of the European film industry. CRESCINE will address all expected outcomes of the call through the lens of exemplary European Small Film Markets which stand for the majority of film markets in the European Union.
CRESCINE will establish an innovative model of analysis and evidence collection across the value chain that is framed by cutting edge data analytical models, comparative benchmarks promulgated in light of best available evidence including unprecedented data sources. The findings will lead to work on innovative solutions and testing of new tools, policies, business models or financing schemes, and green strategies. These activities feed the overall impact of the project and its ability to produce new tools, recommendations, guidelines, and exploit results that nurture the  transformation of the film industry in small European markets and beyond. 

Project website: https://www.crescine.eu/  
Project information in CORDIS: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101094988
Project page on ETIS: https://www.etis.ee/Portal/Projects/Display/0b73cadd-9670-4ab9-8137-0c483bb3a0bb  

Project is funded by EU Horizon Europe programme

MeDeMap -  Mapping Media for Future Democracies

1.03.2023 - 28.02.2026
Responsible executor: Alessandro Nani

To set out future-proof pathways to strengthen democracy through improving accountability, transparency and effectiveness of media production and expanding active and inclusive citizenship, the project aims to clarify the extent to which certain media under which conditions perform which democratic functions for which audiences, thus making it  apparent what is at stake for democratic media - and for democracy itself. By applying an innovative multi-method design consisting of data science methods, large-scale  quantitative analyses, in-depth qualitative approaches and participatory action research, the project will cover (1) perspectives of both representative and participatory notions of democracy as they exist in European societies, (2) the entire range of news media, regardless of distribution channel, mandate, ownership and source of financing, (3) the legal and (self-)regulatory framework under which media houses and journalism operate and people use media, (4) the media's potential to promote and support political participation (supply side), and (5) the media use patterns, communication needs and democratic attitudes of the audiences (demand side) in all EU Member States.
Based on the research results, an interactive multi-layer map of European political information environments will be created, whose layers reflect the legal and regulatory framework and the democratically relevant features of media supply and demand. In addition, the obtained “real” map is to be confronted with a map of how European citizens envision the future media landscapes. By comparing these maps, conclusions can be drawn from congruencies and discrepancies between them, good practice examples can be identified and guidelines can be derived to support developments that promote democracy and counteract phenomena that may jeopardize democracy. These guidelines will be addressed to policymakers, regulators, self-regulation bodies, media houses, journalists, NGOs and citizens.

Project website: https://www.medemap.eu/ 
Project information in CORDIS: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101094984
Project page on ETIS: https://www.etis.ee/Portal/Projects/Display/ebf54ecc-696c-43b3-8e79-7f06ea217663 

Project is funded by EU Horizon Europe programme

TRAVIS - Trust And Visuality: Everyday digital practices

01.11.2022 - 31.10.2025
Responsible executor: Katrin Tiidenberg
Project manager: Patience Gombe

Europe is witnessing a paradigmatic shift in the role, functions and implications of digital visuality in all areas of social life. Digital images and practices of visualization directly shape how social worlds, relations and identities are imagined; they introduce new modes of (visual) knowing and learning, and shape how European citizens see themselves, each other and social institutions. This happens most powerfully in apparently mundane everyday situations: reading the news, visiting the doctor, planning a home improvement project, sharing something with friends on social media. Which images are trusted and how becomes a critical question for understanding both cultural and social transformation in contemporary digital times. TRAVIS analyses how dis/trust in everyday digital images is structured by and structures identities and values. Three thematic case studies will use qualitative methods to gain in-depth understanding of trust in relation to images of the self (rehabilitation after illness), the home (domestic aspirations) and the public (news journalism) across four different cultural contexts (EE, FI, AT, UK), with specific groups of research participants chosen to deepen understanding of the effect of different social identities on dis/trusting. A fourth study will offer context through a qualitative exploration of visuals and trust-relations in individuals' everyday life. Each case study will take place in two different countries, to enable robust comparative conclusions across relevant differences as well as a wide range of knowledge exchange collaborations. TRAVIS has a large number of stakeholder communities and engages them through a suite of workshops, toolkits, exhibitions and focus groups. The outputs will be valuable across national and EU-level policy-makers, the scientific community, civil society and  pedagogy institutions as well as industry (news, adTech, healthTech, and real estate and property technology in particular).

Project website: https://www.tlu.ee/en/bfm/research/trust-and-visuality-everyday-digital-practices-travis#funding 
Project page on ETIS: https://www.etis.ee/Portal/Projects/Display/e3ceb34b-b40d-4263-a984-bb2bd478c644    
Projekti lehekülg CHANSE programmi lehel. https://chanse.org/travis/ 

Project TRAVIS is supported by the Estonian Research Council and the CHANSE ERA-NET Co-fund programme, which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme

BECID - Baltic Engagement Centre for combatting Information Disorders

01.12.2022 - 31.05.2025
Responsible executor: Andres Kõnno

The primary objective of the Baltic Engagement Centre for Combating Information Disorders (BECID) project is to support the EU in its efforts to tackle disinformation in the three Baltic countries. This is an area of particular importance, due to its location on the edge of the EU and the presence of a large Russian-speaking minority population (approximately 17%). It is also a region that presents a diverse cross-section of post-soviet countries, an important factor to consider when developing responses to fake news and disinformation. BECID responds to all of the priorities and objectives of the call and contributes significantly to the Digital Europe Programme objectives. We will create an EDMO hub in a key region, which brings together 9 beneficiaries and 1 associated partner from the 3 Baltic States, including 4 research organizations, 4 IFCN certified fact-checkers, a non-profit organization with 13 founding members cooperating on media literacy activities and a Latvian TV channel. We also have 14 external experts supporting us, covering the topics of migration and societal cohesion; environmental policies and climate change; European security policy; Russia’s regional foreign policy; public health etc. Building off numerous previous activities of BECID partners, we will perform continuous fact-checking (15 per month per month), create debunking podcasts and videos and analytical reports on Baltic disinformation trends and carry out 5 media literacy campaigns. Particular attention will be paid to vulnerable groups such as Russian speakers, elderly and youth.

Project website: https://uhiskond.ut.ee/et/sisu/balti-infohairete-sekkekeskus  
Project page on ETIS: https://www.etis.ee/Portal/Projects/Display/15d1e630-e591-425a-a8ad-1154f1628c03   

Project is jointly funded by EU from the Digital Europe Programme (DIGITAL) and the Estonian Ministry of Education and Research

Extending the character-development process for fictional films through iterative improvisation workshops and entangled pre-production, production and post-production

01.09.2023 - 31.12.2024
Responsible executor: Michael Keerdo Dawson

This research endeavours to explore an alternative filmmaking process by breaking up the pre-production, production, post-production paradigm and then entangling and extending it via discovery-lead improvisational methods for devising characters and depicting them. This alternative process is divided into two stages: for the first six months, scenes and sequences will be devised with actors through improvisational workshops (every two weeks) with screenwriting sessions in-between the workshops (7-8 workshops in total). Then in the next six months, production/post-production process will also be broken up and intermingled, so that there is a week of rehearsing and filming once a month and in the interval the filmed material is edited and taken into consideration before the next filming days (4 sets of 2 rehearsal days + 3 production days). This will shape the filmmaking process in a way which will put character-development and performance first and allow all key creatives and actors to make changes and reflect on the characters and scenarios forming during the intervals and thus providing space for creating more multifaceted characters with deeper contradictory cores. Working in collaboration with acting students from Viljandi Culture Academy, the project team will implement this alternative process and reflect on its effects and the results using artistic research as a methodology and nonrepresentational theory as a method of data collection and analysis. Many opportunities and difficulties will doubtlessly emerge as a consequence of these changes to the traditional production stages. Finally, we hope to reflect on this alternative process and write at least one academic article or book chapter which will contain tools for future filmmakers to employ alternative strategies to developing characters through devisal workshops and entangled production/post-production cycles as well as any narrative or production phenomena which emerge through these changes. These research outputs will consider the benefits and difficulties which may be present for the filmmaker and his or her actors trying to move away from the traditional filmmaking process in order to prioritise characters over plots.

Project page on ETIS: https://www.etis.ee/Portal/Projects/Display/38956f12-82ae-4eb4-a03f-aabc7792b5fc 

The project is financed by the Ministry of Culture

The Intimate Technology Shaping Millions of Lives: Exploring the Possibilities of Menstruation and Perimenopause Tracking Apps for People with Diverse Embodied Experiences

1.11.2022 - 31.12.2024
Responsible executor: Katrin Tiidenberg

Menstrual tracking apps are designed around a prototypical user: a white, affluent, cisgender, heterosexual, able-bodied, young woman, which reinforces narrow, potentially harmful, ideas about “normal” or ideal bodies. It is therefore important to ask: What are the experiences of the many non-prototypical users, whose bodies, identities, or life stages are marginalised by these apps? To understand the experiences of these menstrual tracking app users in Aotearoa New Zealand, we will conduct participatory research with users from three life-stage cohorts: 16- to 18-year-olds, post-natal, and perimenopausal. We will use this knowledge to create a story-driven app that affirms diverse embodied experiences, and to amplify marginalised voices, advance the field of digital health, and envision possibilities for these technologies in the future. 

Project is lead by the Massey University (New Zealand) and funded by the Marsden Fund

Project page on ETIS: https://www.etis.ee/Portal/Projects/Display/7663fb0e-4d2d-467b-8952-42a047a1b985

FILMEU_RIT - Research | Innovation | Transformation

01.09.2021 - 31.08.2024
Responsible executor: Teet Teinemaa

FILMEU_RIT brings together four European Higher Education Institutions: UL - Lusófona University from Lisbon, Portugal; LUCA School of Arts from Brussels, Belgium; and IADT - Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art Design and Technology, from Dublin, Ireland and TLU BFM - Baltic Film, Media and Arts School of Tallinn University. Together, these institutions collaborate around the common objective of jointly promoting high-level research, innovation and educational activities in the multidisciplinary field of Film and Media Arts and, through this collaboration, consolidate the central role of Europe as a world leader in the creative fields.
FILMEU_RIT will increase the Alliance’s competitiveness and reinforce its ability to develop activities that span all the areas of the knowledge square: education, research, innovation, and service to society, while helping the creative sector to affirm its potential for innovation and resilience in a post COVID-19 context.
FILMEU_RIT will develop a common R&I agenda for artistic research supported by common resources and joint structures that will increase talent attraction and the impact of the research developed amidst the alliance. Such impact seeks to promote greater engagement of society and business with art and creativity in order to increase European competitiveness and its artistic R&I profile.
FILMEU_RIT’s main objective is the capacitation, in Research and Innovation terms, of the individual HEIs that integrate the Alliance via the joint design of strategies and action plans that ensure the transformation of the future European University into an Institution that puts Research and Innovation in the fields of Film and Media Arts at the centre of its activities and operates as a highly valuable critical cultural intermediary.

Project website: https://www.filmeu.eu/filmeu-rit/about-rit
Project information in CORDIS: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101035820 
Project page on ETIS: https://www.etis.ee/Portal/Projects/Display/f9e290da-f05e-48a7-9cc4-3bb5346915fb 

Project is funded by EU Horizon 2020 programme

CUDAN - Cultural Data Analytics

01.01.2019 - 31.08.2024
ERA-CHAIR professor Maximilian Günther Schich

The ERA Chair we propose has two main and intertwined goals: 1) significant structural change within Tallinn University (TU) regarding developing a new platform and methods for facilitating collaboration between TU schools as well as with external, both private and public partners on cultural data analytics, related cultural services and policy development; 2) combination of the existing strengths at TU to build a new analytical approach that integrates cultural semiotics, data analytics, digital culture studies and creative industries studies to work with digitised cultural heritage as well as with born digital data scraped from contemporary platforms.

Project website: https://cudan.tlu.ee/ 
Project information in CORDIS: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/810961
Project page on ETIS: https://www.etis.ee/Portal/Projects/Display/bf5dc583-824b-4996-a1b7-5641c18ef2cb 

Project is funded by EU from Horizon 2020 programme

ETIKETA - FilmEU Degree label

01.04.2023 - 31.03.2024
Responsible executor: Teet Teinemaa

ETIKETA (from the Greek ετικέτα for “label”) will promote the design and test of transnational cooperation instruments based on proposed co-created European criteria, for the delivery of a joint European degree label for joint transnational higher education programmes.

Project page on ETIS: https://www.etis.ee/Portal/Projects/Display/9b4df0e4-dd95-4dae-9f42-30c258000ed0 

Project is co-funded from the EU ERASMUS+ programme

ScreenME-Net - Twinning for Sustainable and Visible Excellence in Screen Media Entrepreneurship Scholarship

01.01.2021 - 31.12.2023
Responsible executor: Ulrike Rohn
Project coordinator: Elena Stern

The objective of the ScreenME-Net project is to enhance excellence in screen media entrepreneurship scholarship at Tallinn University (TLU), to increase its networking position and visibility in this scholarly field, and to ensure sustainability of the impact of this project, mainly through the institutionalization of a screen media entrepreneurship research hub, the so-called ScreenME-Hub, at TLU. In terms of enhancing excellence in scholarship, the project aims at positively impacting all four pillars of scholarship (Boyer, 1990): discovery, integration, teaching and application. The objectives will be achieved through networking and collaboration activities with an interdisciplinary set of internationally-leading research institutions with strong expertise in entrepreneurship teaching and research as well as in various academic disciplines and scholarly areas of high relevance to understanding current dynamics in media industries and their wider societal effects. 

Project website: https://screenme.tlu.ee/ 
Project page on ETIS: https://www.etis.ee/Portal/Projects/Display/e5effbce-6cb5-4a85-8de1-849885e04d90 
Project information in CORDIS: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/952156

Project is funded by EU from Horizon 2020 programme

EKKD119 - Application of automatic language processing in the ERR archive: modeling relationships between entities in an archive query based on link data 

1.03.2023  - 31.03.2024
Responsible executor: Andres Kõnno

This is a follow-up application to the grant EKKD84. The main outputs of that preceding project were (1) the generation of new metadata using the BERT language model to perform entity detection and (2) a prototype that enables to use the linked entities to perform novel kinds of queries.
In the new project we would like to continue the development of archive functions based on syntactic analysis of Estonian texts, as well as to enlarge the available text corpus. Above all, we have in mind the identification of entities and the relations between them in Estonian texts. This will form an input for the implementation of the link data standard for the ERR archive on an even larger scale. The aim is to create a new kind of dataset for the study of a wide range of relationships, with novel functionalities aimed at the general public as well as at more specific stakeholders (journalists, educators, researchers, etc.). 

Project page on ETIS: https://www.etis.ee/Portal/Projects/Display/5d6b1d98-be7e-4e1f-bcaf-bae4cecd643f 

Project is funded by the Ministry of Education and Research in the National Program: Estonian Language and Culture in the Digital Are