{"id":88266,"date":"2019-03-01T01:26:18","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T09:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/how-estonia-blazed-a-trail-in-science"},"modified":"2019-03-01T01:26:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T09:26:18","slug":"how-estonia-blazed-a-trail-in-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/how-estonia-blazed-a-trail-in-science","title":{"rendered":"How Estonia blazed a trail in science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-estonia-blazed-a-trail-in-science2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Still, Estonia\u2019s research prowess is an example of how quickly a small country can turn its scientific fortunes around with international support and well-designed domestic policies \u2014 and its success has drawn attention from other nations looking to build their scientific capacity. Latvia, for instance, borders Estonia and joined the EU at the same time. \u201cWe started from a very similar position,\u201d says Dmitrijs Stepanovs, Latvia\u2019s deputy state secretary and director of the higher-education and science ministry, but \u201cnow we are far behind and must try to catch up.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A small nation found strength in research after joining the European Union.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-019-00209-7\">https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586&#45;019&#45;00209&#45;7<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still, Estonia\u2019s research prowess is an example of how quickly a small country can turn its scientific fortunes around with international support and well-designed domestic policies \u2014 and its success has drawn attention from other nations looking to build their scientific capacity. Latvia, for instance, borders Estonia and joined the EU at the same time. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}