Responsibility Areas of the University

Cultivation of food and feed crops, 

crop development and quality, 

grassland cultivation, 

field cultivation systems, 

crop rotation planning, 

conventional and organic crop production, 

regenerative and integrated crop production, 

modern machine technologies and precision farming,

green manure crops (including cover crops), 

weeds and weed control,

plant-soil-environment interactions,

soil cultivation technologies, resource-efficient and environmentally sustainable solutions, 

plant genetics and biochemistry; 

plant ecophysiology and stress biology, 

applied plant physiology, 

new crops and plant disease resistance in a changing climate, 

plant adaptation and adaptation to global environmental changes, 

plant-microbe interactions, 

plant biogenic emissions

• Pomology
• Cultivation technologies of fruits, vegetables and ornamental plants
• Greenhouse production
• Biochemical properties and quality traits of horticultural crops
• Processing and postharvest technologies of horticultural crops
• Plant breeding and preserving genetic resources

• Soil quality and functions
• Soil classification
• Soil chemistry and physics
• Soil ecology and biology
• Soil organic matter and carbon cycle
• Carbon farming
• Nutrient cycles in soil-plant-environment continuum
• Plant nutrition and balanced fertilization
• Soil protection
• Soil information and its inclusion in decision making processes

• Environmental protection and management measures
• Ecosystem services
• Environmental policy, citizen science
• Stakeholders involvement in environmental planning
• Systematic reviews and maps
• Sustainable development
• Environmental innovation, its transfer and promotion
• The EU Green Deal
• Governance of protected area
• Landscape ecology and management
• Historical land-use
• Green infrastructure, carbon footprint, remote sensing, geoinformatics and drones
• Biodiversity metrics
• Global climate and landscape changes and its impact on biodiversity
• Breeding- and migration ecology of birds
• Environmental analyses
• Waste analysis and biomethane potential
• Rural development and planning
• Estonian rural settlements
• Communities in rural development

• Landscape design, construction and management
• Landscape planning and design for human health and well-being, including Universal Design
• Conservation of historic sites and monuments in the landscape
• Planning, conservation and management of historic legacies of Modernist rural landscapes
• Landscape character assessment
• Landscape and visual impact assessment
• 3D virtual and VR solutions in landscape architecture
• Urban green/blue space management
• Urban nature based solutions
• Public participation in landscape planning
• Urban acupuncture and temporary use of unused land

• Biodiversity patterns, evolution, protection and monitoring
• Agro- ecosystems and their ecology
• Ecological functionality in agro-ecosystems relating to resilience towards impacts of climate change
• Botany, zoology and mycology
• Floristics, faunistics and fungistics
• Biosystematics
• Population and production biology
• Interpretation of biological diversity through nature tourism, planning and analysis of impacts of nature tourism on environment and society
• Management and depository of natural history collections and research based on them

• Limnology
• Ecology of inland water bodies
• Hydrochemistry and –physics
• Limnological modelling
• Planktology
• Water microbiology
• Ichthyology, zoobenthology, phytobenthology
• Hydrobotanics
• Biodiversity
• Protection of water bodies
• Bioresources of water bodies
• Ecotoxicology of water bodies
• Sediment geochemistry and palaeolimnology
• Hydromorphology
• Fishery
• Protection of endangered species of water bodies
• Statistical analyses of hydrobiological data
• Sanitation and restoration of inland water bodies
• Formation of biota of artificial inland water bodies
• Status of inland waterbodies, impact of climatic changes to water bodies

Management and analytics in rural economy (strategic management, change and process management, and data-driven decision-making; information systems and analytical methods; accounting and financial management);

economics and policy in rural economy (agricultural, environmental and resource economics, and rural policy; assessment of competitiveness and sustainability);

economic instruments of environmental and climate policy, including carbon markets (socio-economic analysis and assessment of sustainable development and sustainability);

food systems and markets (marketing of agricultural products, food markets and food systems);

supply and risks (food, energy and resource security, and supply reliability; supply chain resilience; risk management and crisis preparedness in rural economy, including climate and market risks);

entrepreneurship and value chains (circular bioeconomy value chains and business models; rural entrepreneurship and innovation; development of collaboration and cooperation);

regional and social dimension (economic and social development of rural areas and communities)

• Animal breeding
• Conservation of animal genetic resources
• Animal genetics
• Genomics
• Transgenic technology
• Animal reproduction and reproductive disorders
• Reproductive biotechnology

Animal feeds and feeding (including feeding technologies);

nutritional physiology and metabolism;

biomarkers and precision livestock farming;

sustainable production of livestock products and products quality;

animal behaviour, welfare and housing environment; 

environmental impact of livestock production and implementation of circular bioeconomy in livestock production

Biology, genetics, genomics, biotechnology, and breeding of aquaculture species;

technologies for the reproduction, feeding and cultivation of aquaculture species (including recirculating aquaculture systems, aquaponics, integrated multitrophic aquaculture); 

circular bioeconomy in aquaculture; 

biology and ecology of invasive aquatic organisms; 

conservation of genetic resources of endangered fish and crustacean species and restocking and enhancement of fish populations; 

parasitic and infectious diseases of aquatic organisms; 

fish welfare; 

one health; 

biosecurity in aquaculture

Animal health and welfare; 

disease development and progression; 

disease diagnostics, treatment and prevention; 

herd health;

one health

• Animal anatomy, histology, cytology, embryology and developmental biology
• Physiology, immunology, pathology, microbiology, virology, parasitology, epidemiology
• Animal hygiene and herd health
• Infectious diseases
• Food hygiene and safety
• Meat inspection
• Food safety management systems
• Food and environmental toxicology
• Genomic epidemiology of foodborne pathogens

• Food chemistry, physics, and microbiology
• Food processing technologies and basic processes
• Food (by-)products valorisation technologies
• Product development
• Sensory assessment
• Food quality
• Quality management

• Forest as an ecosystem and silvicultural methods
• Forest biodiversity and disturbance ecology
• Forest typology
• Carbon and nutrient cycles
• Forest bioproduction
• Forest tree breeding
• Nursery management
• Forest regeneration
• Forest cutting systems
• Forest improvement
• Forest plantations
• Dendrology
• Forest and climate policy
• Multiple use of forests
• Forest protection
• Forest pathology and wood preservation
• Forest entomology
• Game biology and management
• Urban forestry
• Dendrophysiology

• Planning of forest management and nature conservation
• Ecological restoration of forest ecosystems
• Forest inventory
• Dendrometry
• Modelling of structure and growth dynamics of forest ecosystems
• Decision support systems in forestry
• Forest economics and entrepreneurship
• Forest policy
• Private forestry
• Remote sensing and spatial analysis
• Logging technologies
• Forest logistics and wood trade
• Saw-mill technologies
• Wood drying and protection
• Technologies of wood processing and furniture industries
• Properties of wood and wood based materials
• Resources, properties and production technologies of wood fuels
• Innovation and production management in forest and wood processing industry
• Geodesy
• Satellite positioning
• Laser scanning
• Photogrammetry
• Remote sensing
• Land management
• Land administration
• Land policy
• Land cadaster
• Cadastral surveying
• Land use planning property rights
• Real estate management
• Real estate valuation

• Ehitiste projekteerimine ja ehitamine, sh põllumajandus- ja tootmishooned ning nende elukaare haldamine
• Säästev ehitus
• Tarindite ehitusfüüsikalise toimimise hindamine, sh dünaamilist kliimamudelit arvestades
• Materjalide ja konstruktsioonide mehaanika
• Ehituslikud komposiitmaterjalid, looduslikud materjalid, kohalikud (sh puit ja puidupõhised) materjalid ning taaskäideldavad materjalid
• Vesiehitised
• Kalamajanduslikud rajatised
• Maaparandus ja niisutus
• Veevarustus ja kanalisatsioon
• Hüdroenergeetika
• Rakendushüdroloogia
• Tarbevee töötlemine ja reovee puhastamine
• Jäätmekäitlustehnoloogiad

Chemical engineering and biorefining,

mechatronics,

machine vision and machine learning,

mobile machinery,

robotics and drone technology;

production engineering;

manufacturing engineering;

materials engineering;

ergonomics and ergodesign

• Renewable energies (bio, wind, solar and geothermal)
• Energy consumption management
• Energy storage
• Thermal energy
• Modelling and management of energy systems
• Nanotechnologies