Associated Institutions and Organisations

Research and development institutions, cultural establishments and learned societies from outside the structure of the Academy may associate with the Academy on condition that their activities and objectives comply with the interests and aims of the Academy. Association of an institution or society with the Academy is executed in the form of a bilateral agreement, providing the aims of association as well as the reciprocal rights and obligations of the parties.

The Academy may create institutions which have their own budget, bank account, the functions and bases of operation of which are established in the statutes of the institution. The Academy has two institutions:

Under and Tuglas Literature Centre

Estonian Academy Publishers

From 1998 onward, agreements of association have been signed with the following organisations:

University of Tartu, Tartu Observatory

Academic Library of Tallinn University

Institute of the Estonian Language

Estonian Literary Museum

Estonian National Museum

Centre of Estonian Rural Research and Knowledge (METK)

Art Museum of Estonia

Agreements of association have been terminated with three partners: Institute of Zoology and Botany at Estonian Agricultural University, Institute of Ecology at Tallinn University, Institute for International and Social Studies at Tallinn University.

Research and development institutes, cultural establishments and learned societies, whose activities and objectives comply with the interests and aims of the Academy, may associate with the Academy. The relations between the associated institution or society and the Academy, the mutual rights and obligations are provided for in the statutes of the Academy and the association agreement.

Since 1998 the agreements of association have been signed with the following societies and unions:

Estonian Naturalists' Society

Associated with the Estonian Academy of Sciences 23.01.1998
Founded 1853.

Estonian Geographical Society

Associated with the Estonian Academy of Sciences 27.01.1998
Founded 1955.

Society of Estonian Areal Studies

Associated with the Estonian Academy of Sciences 27.01.1998
Founded 1939.

Estonian Mother Tongue Society

Associated with the Estonian Academy of Sciences 4.02.1998
Founded 1920

Estonian Union of the History and Philosophy of Science

Associated with the Estonian Academy of Sciences 4.02.1998
Founded 1967

Estonian Learned Society in Sweden

Associated with the Estonian Academy of Sciences 19.03.1999
Founded 1945

Estonian Literary Society

Associated with the Estonian Academy of Sciences 23.01.2001
Founded 1907

Learned Estonian Society

Associated with the Estonian Academy of Sciences 23.01.2001
Founded 1838

Estonian Musicological Society

Associated with the Estonian Academy of Sciences 21.06.2004
Founded 1992

Estonian Physical Society


Associated with the Estonian Academy of Sciences 14.06.2005
Founded 1989

Estonian Association of Engineers 

Associated with the Estonian Academy of Sciences 23.09.2008
Founded 1988

Estonian Biochemical Society

Associated with the Estonian Academy of Sciences 13.11.2009
Founded 1959

Estonian Semiotics Association

Associated with the Estonian Academy of Sciences 22.12.2010
Founded 1998

Estonian Chemical Society

Associated with the Estonian  Academy of Sciences 8.03.2011
Founded 1919

Estonian Society of Human Genetics

Associated with the Estonian Academy of Sciences 5.04.2011
Founded 2000

Estonian Economic Association

Associated with the  Estonian Academy of Sciences 16.06.2011
Founded 1930

Estonian Society for the Study of Religions

Associated with the  Estonian Academy of Sciences 16.06.2011
Founded 2006

Estonian Society of Toxicology

Associated with the Estonian Academy of Sciences 31.05.2017
Founded 1997

Estonian Academic Agricultural Society

Associated with the Estonian Academy of Sciences 6.03.2018
Founded 1920

Estonian Academic Oriental Society

Associated with the Estonian Academy of Sciences 12.06.2018
Founded 1935

Estonian Mathematical Society

Associated with the Estonian Academy of Sciences 26.02.2019
Founded 1926

Estonian Association of Sociologists

Associated with the Estonian Academy of Sciences 18.06.2019
Founded 1990, restructured in 1999

Estonian Academic Theological Society

Associated with the Estonian Academy of Sciences 15.10.2019
Founded 1921

Estonian Young Academy of Sciences (EYAS)

Associated with the Estonian Academy of Sciences 14.12.2021

Founded 2017