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Source: European Commission On January 15th, the French city of Grenoble will officially become the European Green Capital for 2022, taking over from...

This will be your year, founder! Grab the unicorn by the horn or jump into the zebra saddle and apply to Tehnopol Startup Incubator’s growth programme. The application forms are open until January 28.

In the field of enterprise, Tallinn's 2022 budget will fund smart city projects and support the green transition process, including the creation of a circular economy centre for advising businesses.

Construction work for the construction of Tondiraba Park in Lasnamäe will start in March. The park will become the largest recreation area in the capital, which will provide plenty of space for both people and nature.

Tallinn’s business tourism website, visittallinn.ee/professional features a new page “ Practical resources ”, which gives event professionals lots of...

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.

From this week, a collection campaign for old Christmas trees started in the districts of Tallinn, in which residents can take their trees to collection points free of charge. Depending on the district, the campaign will last until January 25, after which the fir trees will be taken to the Tallinn Utilitas cogeneration plant, where they will turn into green electricity and heat.

Tallinn continues to pursue for the title of European Green Capital in 2023, a total of 16 cities across Europe will apply for this year’s title.

At today’s cabinet meeting, the members of the Government approved the decisions on the basis of which even more wide-ranging restrictions will come into force in Estonia from Thursday, March 11 until April 11. The restrictions will be eased when the spread of the coronavirus in Estonia has been reduced to the level that does not endanger the medical system’s ability to function. Today the government adopted the decisions in principle, the plan is to approve the corresponding order at tomorrow’s extraordinary meeting.

On March 10, from 4 pm to 5:30 pm, City Center Government and City Center New Arrivals Council organizes a webinar for English-speaking Talliners on the topic “Waste sorting and recycling in Tallinn”. The webinar features speakers from the Estonian Ministry of the Environment, the Stockholm Environmental Institute and a social enterprise BinFree. Registration closes on March 9th.