FinEst Centre for Smart Cities

An international research and development centre, focusing on creating smart, human-centric, and resilient environment that empower people to lead happy, fulfilling lives.

PADST

A Horizon Europe supported project advancing European knowledge base on public administration capabilities for the twin sustainability and digital transition by implementing joint research actions, organizing knowledge exchange initiatives and preparing a new generation of early-career researchers.

Energy Efficiency Center of Excellence

Interdisciplinary CoE combining engineering, social, data sciences and economics with central focus on energy performance of buildings and districts, electrification and flexibility, renewable energy generation and storage, energy saving measures and business models with their socioeconomic and regional impacts.

Advancing Citizen Engagement Through Digital Tools: A Comparative Study of the Baltic States (2025)

Randma-Liiv, T., Bortkevičiūtė, R., Lember, V., Valtenbergs, V., & Nakrosis, V.

Automating public administration: citizens’ attitudes towards automated decision-making across Estonia, Sweden, and Germany (2024)

Kaun, A., Larsson, A. O., & Masso, A.

Strategies to advance the dream of integrated digital public service delivery in inter-organizational collaboration networks (2023)

Wouters, S., Janssen, M., Lember, V., & Crompvoets, J.

Beyond high-tech versus low-tech: A tentative framework for sustainable urban data governance (2023)

Kostakis, V., Pazaitis, A., & Liarokapis, M.

Innovation bureaucracies: Agile stability creates the entrepreneurial state (2022)

Kattel, R., Drechsler, W., & Karo, E.

The potential impacts of digital technologies on co-production and co-creation (2019)

Lember, V., Brandsen, T., & Tõnurist, P.