The Student Researchers Festival is an annual festival taking place in April and is celebrating research and student researchers.
The Student Researchers Festival includes the final judging round of the National Contest for Student Researchers with poster presentations, the Award Ceremony of the Contest, Elementary School Research Projects. In addition, the festival includes several workshops, science theaters, seminars and other related activities. The event hosts more than 4000 students all over Estonia.
The Student Festival is for:
- Students at upper secondary level and vocational schools, teachers who are involved in research projects at school, class teachers
- Students and supervisors from extracurricular STEM clubs
- Families, friends and acquaintances of students
- Researchers and staff from universities and other organisations and companies
- Everybody who is interested in STEM-related activities
The main focus of the festival is on the student research projects. The Estonian Research Council has been coordinating the national Student Research Competition more than 20 years. In addition, doing a research project is mandatory in high school – therefore the number of submitted works and the overall level of the projects is high. Through the competition, the winners of national awards and special awards from cooperation partners are selected. In addition the Estonian representatives to the national competitions, such as Regeron ISEF, International Wildlife Research Week, European Union Contest for Young Scientists and International Swiss Talent Forum etc, are selected.
Photo Galleries of the Festival:
See the video summary of the Student Researchers Festival 2025:
Why participate?
- Students who are working on or planning a research project, either in primary or secondary school, will get a good overview of the research subjects, contents, methods used, and the possibilities of drawing conclusions and presenting results
- Teachers who supervise research projects get an overview of the methodology used in the submitted contest papers, the choice and level of the projects
- When studying the projects of elementary school students it becomes clear that research activities are possible, even from the very first years at school
- For younger students, the intense and interesting festival programme offers contacts with various fields of STEM and enriches their learning with the extra-curricular environment
- It is possible to get acquainted with different activities of science communicators, which target young people to raise their interest to STEM
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