The Under and Tuglas Literary Institute in the Adapter+ Collaboration Network

Adapter+ leaders Kristiina Herodes, Jaanus Vahesalu, and Anu Nef together with representatives of the Under and Tuglas Literary Institute Marin Jänes and Hegely Klaus.
Adapter+ leaders Kristiina Herodes, Jaanus Vahesalu, and Anu Nef together with representatives of the Under and Tuglas Literary Institute Marin Jänes and Hegely Klaus.

Since 2025, the Under and Tuglas Literary Institute of the Estonian Academy of Sciences has been a partner in the Adapter+ collaboration network, which connects the expertise of Estonian universities, research institutions, and competence centres with the development needs of businesses.

Adapter+ serves as a strategic intermediary, helping companies enhance their innovation capacity through applied research, innovation, and technology transfer, while providing access to science-based solutions. The platform aims to strengthen cooperation between academia and industry and to promote interdisciplinary collaboration among different units of higher education institutions and their partners, including the development of shared services.

The Under and Tuglas Literary Institute offers the following research and consulting services:

    • Research on Estonian written culture and on the Latin-, German-, Polish-, and Swedish-language literary cultures cultivated in the territory of present-day Estonia in earlier periods;
    • professional consulting in the fields of cultural and multilingual literary heritage, cultural history and cultural policy, as well as translation and reception studies;
    • advisory services regarding the selection of materials from the Literary Institute’s archival collections for publication and exhibition purposes;
    • consultation on disseminating research results through original scholarly and popular-science publications in Estonian and other languages, educational and guided-tour programmes, specialist teaching materials, conferences, and exhibitions.

The Literary Institute’s services can be commissioned through the Adapter+ platform.

ADAPTER+ directly supports the objectives of both the Research, Development, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Plan 2021–2035 (TAIE) and Estonia 2035, promoting Estonia’s economic growth and enhancing the innovation capacity of enterprises through knowledge transfer from higher education and research institutions. The activities of the Adapter collaboration network are co-funded by the European Union through the ASTRA+ programme (Project No. 2021–2027.1.01.24-0833) during the period 1 July 2025–31 August 2029, with total funding of €4.22 million. This support contributes to the growth of knowledge-transfer activities and the volume of research and development contracts between research institutions and businesses.