The Research Cooperation Centre is an unit within the Archimedes Foundation.
The aim of the centre is to enhance the participation of the Estonian research, commercial and other organisations in EU research and technological development programmes and thus improve competitiveness of Estonian actors.
The Research Cooperation Centre has several tasks:

• To coordinate and participate in different domestic and international projects for supporting R&D.
• To disseminate information about the EU programmes to Estonian organisations (to organize information events, to give free of charge consultations, to publish monhtly newsletter Innovaatika. 
• To make science attractive for young people. 
• To implement specific projects and to enhance the innovation capacity of the Estonian society (NETS Estonia etc.).

The Research Cooperation Centre has the following subunits:

• Unit for international cooperation programmes 
    - National Contact Point for the Seventh Framework Programme of EU Research and Technological Development (FP7)
    - National office for COST network 
• Unit for the Estonian Research Information System ETIS
    - Estonian Research Information System
    - Estonian Research Portal 
• Science Communication Unit
   -  Estonian contests for young scientists at high school level
    - Estonian contests for young scientists at university level
    - Young Scientists' Association
    - European Young Scientists Contest in Estonia
    - Science Popularization Awards (with the Estonian Academy of Sciences) 
• Administrative Unit of the Estonian Research Council
• Estonian EURAXESS Network