EstMagLab combines the high-level infrastructure of understanding and application of magnetism
and electro-magnetism of four partners – University of Tartu, Tallinn University of Technology,
Institute of Chemical and Biological Physics and Metrosert, enabling extensive use of this expertise
and knowledge by companies and the public sector, in order to achieve the goals of TAIE and Estonia
2035 in particular. The partners of EstMagLab are NPM Sillamäe and Narva plants.
EstMagLab includes three distributed core laboratories – “Magnets and Magnetic Materials”,
“Recycling of Rare Elements” and “Electro-magnetism Applications” – which bring together the diverse
know-how of EstMagLab partners. Core laboratories deal with top-level electromagnetic expertise,
development of analysis methodologies, offering magnetic analyzes in scientific and industrial
laboratories, and professional training. The research infrastructure is involved in educational and
research activities, represents Estonia in international organizations (EMA, EMFL, NHMFL, COST) and
participates in numerous international projects.
EstMagLab brings together Estonia’s relatively thin and diffuse magnetism and electromagnetic
expertise into a single, compact centre. The goal of EstMagLab is to create a coherent network with a
common contact point from which expert opinions and custom measurements can be obtained
quickly and directly on various magnetism and electromagnetism issues of interest to the Estonian
economy, industry and society. In the long term, the aim is to achieve a qualitative increase in the
know-how and instrumental base of magnetism and electromagnetism, to become a well-known
centre in Europe and the world, and to integrate with the European Magnetic Laboratory EMFL. As
the structure and infrastructure of Estonian industry develops more closely along the profile of
EstMagLab, the perspective of what influence this research infrastructure could have in Estonian
society in the future develops and becomes clearer.
ISABEL “Nordic-Baltic” Regional Meeting in Tallinn, July 28th-August 1st, 2025
