EE — ESTONIA
University of Tartu
CoordinatorEstonia's leading research university and host of the ELIXIR Estonia node since 2013.
Elevating data management.
Elevating research.
ELEVATE DM builds professionalised, institution-wide research data management capacity at the University of Tartu — embedded in policy, training and everyday practice.
3 partners
Estonia, the Netherlands and Finland
3 research questions
What data management investment actually returns
3 levels of change
Individual skills, university policy, national policy
3 sectors connected
Academic, public sector and private sector
About ELEVATE DM
Stronger foundations for better science
ELEVATE DM is a Horizon Europe Twinning project that builds research data management capacity at the University of Tartu, working with two of Europe's leading research data infrastructures.
Estonia is among the most digitally advanced countries in Europe. Its research data management is not: fewer than ten people support more than 2,200 academic staff, there is no institutional data management policy, and no accepted way to measure what good data management is worth.
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FinlandCSC – IT Center for ScienceAdvanced partner
EstoniaUniversity of TartuCoordinator
The NetherlandsHealth-RIAdvanced partner
Our work
Building change together
Our work is structured around six interconnected work packages that enable systemic change in research data management.
Explore our work packages →Project management
WP5Research & evidence
WP1Curriculum development
WP2Network building
WP3Institutional support
WP4Communication & outreach
WP6Partners
Three institutions, one network
All three are ELIXIR nodes, connected long before the project began. The advanced partners bring mature national data ecosystems; Tartu brings the widening-country context in which the models have to work.
NL — THE NETHERLANDS
Health-RI
Advanced partnerThe Dutch national coordination point for health and life sciences data infrastructure, hosting ELIXIR-NL.
FI — FINLAND
CSC — IT Center for Science
Advanced partnerFinland's national IT centre for research and host of ELIXIR Finland.
News & events
Stay informed
News20 July 2026
ELEVATE DM is going ahead
Selected for funding in the 2026 Horizon Europe Twinning call. The project starts on 1 January 2027.
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EventEarly 2027
Kick-off meeting
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Training2027
First training round
Placeholder — the programme is designed in WP2 during the opening months.
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Note. The mockup carried three sample items dated 2025, before the project exists. Only the funding decision is real; the other two are marked as placeholders.
Contact
Get in touch
Placeholder. Needs one project email address, the coordinator contact, and the ELIXIR Estonia channels already in use. One address survives staff changes; individual inboxes do not.