Geological Survey of Estonia has published the summary balances of Estonia's mineral resources for 2025, available to everyone in a report in the Geological Archive: Vohta, A. 2026. Eesti Vabariigi 2025. aasta maavaravarude koondbilansid [Summary balances of mineral resources of the Republic of Estonia for 2025]. Report EGF 47473. Geological Survey of Estonia, Tallinn, 77 pp. https://fond.egt.ee/fond/egf/47473 Up-to-date data on construction mineral reserves and extraction volumes by mining cl...

The data of the TemTA programme project “Construction Mineral Resources and Mineral Waste: Opportunities for Sustainable Extraction and Circular Valorisation in Estonia” (TEM-TA143) are managed on the NATARC subsurface data management platform SARV. To publish the project data and connect them with the national mineral resources register, geological databases, and other related information, a separate user interface is being developed for specialists, students, and the wider public. A prototype ...

The Geological Survey of Estonia (EGT) prepared a general geological study providing a comprehensive overview of the distribution, resources, and use of construction mineral resources in Lääne-Viru and Ida-Viru counties, as well as assessing the region’s security of supply in both the near term and longer perspective. The study concludes that, based on the current demand for construction mineral resources in Virumaa, sufficient resources are available to ensure the counties’ supply security unti...

CETAF Earth Sciences Group, together with TalTech (Estonia) and the Meise Botanic Garden (Belgium), applied for an EOSC Gravity grant to integrate the Geoscience Collection Access Service (GeoCASe) with the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). The application was positively evaluated, and the Geodera project officially kicked off on May 6, 2026. The Geodera project will deliver scientific use cases demonstrating how Earth Science collection data can be integrated into the EOSC Federation through...

On 4 November 2025, from 11:00 to 16:00, the University of Tartu Library will host the conference “Unified Data Space for Estonian Nature II: Citizen Science Data”, which will also be streamed live via UTTV. The conference is organised by the Environmental Committee of the Estonian Academy of Sciences in cooperation with NATARC, a project of the Estonian Research Infrastructure Roadmap. The previous conference, held in 2024, addressed the question of how biodiversity and geoscience research da...