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...

The Estonian Research Infrastructure Roadmap project Natural Science Archives and Unified Data Space (NATARC) has been awarded €1.95 million in national funding for the period 2025–2029, complemented by co-funding from partner institutions. The NATARC consortium brings together leading national competence in natural sciences, uniting the University of Tartu, Tallinn University of Technology, the Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tallinn University, the Estonian Museum of Natural History, the...