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A challenging year 2020 has put Estonians and Latvians invented – more than 500 ideas were submitted to Prototron. On 29th of January 2021, the winners of the Autumn 2020 round were announced – a record 120,000 euros were shared between 8 teams. So far Prototron has helped 86 technological solutions bought to market and invested more than one million euros in the implementation of smart ideas.

In the first-ever referendum on the participatory budget in Tallinn, almost 20,000 city dwellers cast their votes for their favourite ideas. 18,543 citizens cast their votes electronically, but the exact number of those who voted on paper will become clear after counting the votes today. The results of Tallinn participatory budget will be announced at the City Government press conference at noon on Wednesday, February 3.

Tallinn is aspiring to become the City of Music of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network this year. Currently, 47 cities from all over the world belong to the network of Music Cities, 19 of them from Europe.

According to a satisfaction survey conducted among city residents at the end of last year, Tallinn is a family-friendly city with a creative atmosphere, where people of different nationalities are treated well and the local people here are considered caring and trustworthy. However, the corona crisis has affected the daily livelihoods of the townspeople.

In Tallinn, parents can order a house call by a medical brigade on weekends to treat a child aged 0-8 with acute symptoms. For example, a home doctor’s crew can be called if a parent has not been able to visit the G.P. with an ill child or the child has fallen ill during the weekend.

The city of Tallinn will be represented for the first time in the Estonian Pavilion at the EXPO 2020 world exhibition, which due to the pandemic is being delayed and will open its doors to visitors in October of this year.

For the first time, the city of Tallinn will participate in the EXPO 2020 world exhibition in the Estonian pavilion, which, postponed due to the pandemic, will open its doors to visitors in October this year.

Big 7 Travel, with more than 2,5 million social audience, have just recently ranked Tallinn as number 1 destination for digital nomads in 2021.

Estonian Startup Awards 2020 took place on January 14, 2021, to officially wrap up the past year and celebrate the most outstanding achievements of Estonian startups.

The referendum on the ideas submitted to Tallinn's participatory budget will start on January 18 and last until January 31, the results of the vote will be announced on February 1.