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Research assessment and institutional financing in Estonia: 20 years of experience
Saluveer, Madis
The Estonian R&D and higher education system have undergone profound changes over the last 20 years. The institutional reforms in 1990s, continuous evaluation of R&D activities at various levels, focus on high-quality research, and recent investments into the development of R&D infrastructure have increased the competitiveness of Estonian research and researchers internationally. The presentation will tackle the issues of types, scope and frequency of research evaluations in Estonia, use of “metrics” in research assessment as well as the impact of evaluation outcomes upon the research funding system.
Slides: idr-469_1 -  PDF
Video: idr-469_2 -  MP4
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Measuring the effectiveness of e-government
Tajtl, Martin ; Voříšek, Jiří (advisor) ; Stiegler, Petr (referee)
This paper describes problems of eGovernment and proposes way to measure e-Government services. Described is the state of the Czech eGovernment in detail to selected projects and in international comparison. The description shows that the development is still ongoing, but in a much slower pace than in the electronically advanced countries. Main identified problem is inconsequent strategic management and resortism, which is constraining deployment of cross-resort projects. Based on the description of the current situation and on the international experiences, author offers specific recommendations to future development of the electronization of public administration in the Czech Republic. In response on management problems is in this paper proposed and tested methodology for measuring the effectiveness of e-Government services. This methodology is an objective procedure of measuring the effectiveness of e-services which is providing feedback for service providers. Testing of methodology evaluates three services from taxation agenda and highlights their weaknesses, including the proposal of corrective solutions.
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ICT in public administration
Hladík, Martin ; Voříšek, Jiří (advisor) ; Šebesta, Michal (referee)
This thesis focuses on the Czech e-government, or on several important projects that arose within him. The reader will learn what e-government is, what its benefits are and why it is good to improve its quality. The first part focuses on the analysis of individual projects of the Czech e-government and the Estonian e-government. The benefit of this section is to compare the state of e-services between the Czech Republic and Estonia and subsequent recommendations to improve the situation of e-government, whether in specific projects or awareness of e-government services. The second part focuses on the analysis methodology for measuring the effectiveness of public administration, including examples of its use. The aim of this section is to provide a critical look at the methodology of measurement and evaluation of specific e-services, including proposal for its improvement. The conclusion is devoted to an overall summary of the most important knowledge, which is resulting from this thesis.
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The use and the consequences of electronic voting in Estonia
Pelíšková, Dana ; Němec, Jan (advisor) ; Vymětal, Petr (referee)
Europe has faced to the long-term falling voter turnout, particularly of the young generations presenting the most numerous group of absentee voters, and this trend should be changed by electronic voting. Many European states have already introduced pilot projects of electronic elections, but the only state in the world, where the nationwide electronic elections have taken place, is Estonia. The Estonian case became the subject of my thesis. The thesis deals specifically with the political consequences of the introduction of electronic voting and if the arguments for introducing electronic voting were really fulfilled.
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Comparative analysis of foreign policies of the Baltic states
Gromilova, Anna ; Druláková, Radka (advisor) ; Cibulková, Petra (referee)
The aim of the diploma thesis is to analyze and to compare the foreign policies of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia in the period from 1991 until 2004 and to reach a conclusion, whether the frequent and very common generalization of the foreign policies of those states is correct. The first part of the paper explores the main approaches to the analysis of foreign policy and state's national interest. In this part of the paper, the appoach to analysis of the state's national interest, offered by the Copenhagen school of theory is chosen, and this approach is then used in the second chapter of the diploma. The second part of the paper, examines the threats of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in political, societal, military and economic sectors. Finally, the conclusion describes the results of the analysis of each sector and provides the assessment and comparison of the main problems of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and of the ways in which the states were trying to solve them in the chosen time period. It is shown, that despite the fact, that Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were often facing similar challenges, they did also have an abundant number of different and specific problems of their own, were not able to work in concert, and often showed resistance to be deemed as "Baltic". This leads to the conclusion that treating their foreign policies as a joint "Baltic foreign policy" is incorrect and can be misleading.
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European Monetary Union in the context of development of the Euro
LÍSKOVCOVÁ, Eva
The aim of my bachelor thesis is the evaluation of the European Union, focusing primarily on economic and monetary union, which became the basis of a European integration process, one of the largest and most critical projects to which the European Union began. I will discuss the historical development of EMU and focus on significant milestones, such as the Bretton-Woods system, the Werner Plan, EMS and the Delors Report. The Delors report show three stages of EMU. Mentioning about the institutions and monetary union. I will deal with the euro currency and the introduction of common currency in Estonia. Furthermore, in this country will evaluate compliance with the convergence criteria. For the Czech Republic to join the euro zone must take certain steps. Furthermore, I evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of adopting the euro for the Czech Republic. And based on the data obtained will evaluate the performance of the convergence criteria for the Czech Republic.
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Russian minorities in Latvia and Estonia and the Baltic nationalism
Dzurák, Ivan ; Lupták, Milan (advisor) ; Lisa, Aleš (referee)
The thesis focuses on inter-ethnic relations in Latvia and Estonia. The aim of this paper is to analyze the position of members of Russian speaking minorities in social and political landscapes of the two Baltic countries. First chapter is devoted to the settlement evolution of Russian speaking population in Latvia and Estonia. Second part of the thesis provides a comparison of current Latvian and Estonian legal regulations related to citizenship, state language and protection of the rights of members of ethnic minorities. Last chapter analyzes the conditions of origin and spread of nationalism in Latvia and Estonia and the activity of nationalist subjects in the Latvian and Estonian political systems.
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