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Tallinn University’s One Minute Lecture series won the second prize in the new initiative category in this year’s competition for popularising research. The award was given to the creators of the series on 15 November.

The consultant and author of the idea of One Minute Lecture video series is Indrek Treufeldt, lecturer of the Tallinn University . Tallinn University’s (producer: Airi Ilisson-Cruz) and (operators/montage: Kristjan Madalvee and Tarmo Lehari) help in realising the series.

“Our goal was to create a series which would explain the results of research and studies through simple facts, and encourage people to take further interest in research. We are glad to have created a clever and fun video genre in collaboration with the researchers that helps young and curious minds to understand, interpret and get interested in research,” says the producer of the series, Airi Ilisson-Cruz.

According to the research journalist Arko Olesk, One Minute Lecture series is an attractive and fresh format in Estonia, which has already proven to be a great research result mediator. “A short video has very smartly been filled with both, a narrow and a wide view to a specific subject: the viewer will learn new interesting facts and positions, as well as a more general notion about the essence of research and the work of a researcher,” he says. “The video clips have the so-called “wow-effect”, which is necessary to capture the viewers’ attention, get them interested and as such, they are also suitable as study materials in classes.”

Chairman of the Board of the Estonian Beekeepers Association, Aleksander Kilk, mentions a specific video as a very positive example, in which Liisa Puusepp, a researcher from the Institute of Ecology talks about Estonian pollen. “We, the beekeepers, find that this particular video clip about the pollen found in honey, and the entire One Minute Lecture series, are both praise-worthy,” he says.

Ten video lectures have been published so far, with “Sitting kills!” being the most popular one – it spread online and in social media fast, and has almost 20,000 views by now. In this video, Kristjan Port, docent and director of Tallinn University , explains why it is necessary to move more. See the video here: .

The creators of the series promise to continue making 1-2 video lectures each month, paying close attention to the quality. Currently, they are looking into research related to science, the scientific aspects about healthy lifestyle and facts about astronomy and exact sciences.

See all One Minute Lectures here: 

Additional information:
Airi Ilisson-Cruz
Producer of One Minute Lecture series
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e-mail airii@tlu.ee