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The aim of the school is to increase co-operation between Baltic
universities in the field of tertiary education, to provide PhD students
with more broad-based supervision and consulting, better access to relevant
research in their areas, as well as to ensure higher quality of feedback
and assessment of their work. This will help to internationalise tertiary
education in the Baltic area and create a network of cooperation among
supervisors and PhD students.

The Baltic Graduate School is a result of co-operation between Estonian,
Latvian and Lithuanian universities. The author of the idea, prof. Rein
Raud, justifies the foundation of the school: “Although the three Baltic
states have rather different traditions and ways of thinking, we are still
similar enough to enrich each other by creating a wider basis for the
development of doctoral studies in the fields of the humanities and social
sciences. As Tallinn University has a good experience of co-operation
between the Baltic states, namely the foundation of Baltic Film and Media
School, I dared to suggest our university to be the basis for this new
co-operation as well.”

The new doctoral school will be inter-disciplinary, which means that it is
divided into history, linguistics, psychology, anthropology, philosophy,
sociology, semiotics etc sections. Each section will be led by an
outstanding scientist of the field and the leadership will be equally
shared by the three states. The universities can participate in all
sections according to their choice.

The school will be co-ordinated by the centre founded at Tallinn
University.

Krista Männa
Head of Communications
Tallinn University
Phone: (+372) 640 9119
Mobile: (+372) 515 6364
E-mail: krista.manna@tlu.ee