Statistics Estonia invites to participate in the competition for young statistician’s grant

All students’ works that develop or use some geostatistical method or use statistical data for making spatial analyses are eligible to apply for the grant.

The authors of Master’s, Bachelor’s, course- or diploma works who are not older than 25 in the year of applying are eligible to apply for the grant. Works completed in 2011 or 2012 can be submitted to the competition. Works involving the different fields – botany, ecology, geology, geography, meteorology, etc. can be submitted.

The deadline of submitting the works is 7 September 2012. Please send the works to Statistics Estonia at the address 15 Endla Str, 15174 Tallinn and at the e-mail address: statistika at stat dot ee, keyword “Albert Pulleritsu preemia”. The winner is announced on the website of Statistics Estonia on 19 October 2012. The winner will be awarded the iPad 3.

More detailed information has been provided on the website of Statistics Estonia.

The Albert Pullerits Grant will be awarded for the second time. For the first time the grant was awarded in 2011 in relation to the 90th anniversary of Estonian Statistics. Albert Pullerits was the first leader of the Estonian State Central Bureau of Statistics established in 1921 and the founder of Estonian official statistics system.