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In the county of Valgamaa amalgamation negotiations have started between the three rural municipalities of Helme, Hummuli, Põdrala and the urban municipality of Tõrva. With this decision, the four municipalities move in the direction of creating an amalgamated municipality based on the Mulgi regional identity. The historical basement of Helme...

Organized by the RegPol2 consortium, another doctoral school took place from October, 26 to October, 30 2015 in Leipzig. The school focused on topics linked to peripheralization, which were discussed as a basic for scientific research in general and the dissertation projects of the international project participants in particular. In the course of the...

In the framework of the RegPol2 project, Geomedia employee Bianka Plüschke-Altof participated in the 11th Estonian Rural Parliament, which took place from August 7.-9. 2015 in Särevere, Järvamaa County. The event was organized by the Estonian Village Movement Kodukant under the title "Listen for Village Voices". It consisted of field trips, thematic discussions, a ‘living...

In the framework of the RegPol2 project, Geomedia employee Bianka Plüschke-Altof participated in the 26th European Society for Rural Sociology Congress, which took place from August 18. – 21. 2015 in Aberdeen, Scotland. The congress was held under the title “Places of Possibility? Rural Societies in a Neoliberal World” and offered lectures, symposiums, panel discussions...

On the 13th of November a public discussion took place in Noarootsi, focusing on the local government amalgamation reform. The three and a half hour discussion included a presentation by Geomedia consultant Rivo Noorkõiv, a question and answer session and a group work phase. The objective was to get more...

On 7th of September 2015 the second meeting of the amalgamation negotiations between Järvamaa local governments took place in Paide. The meeting was opened by the head of Paide city council, who introduced the results of local discussions taking place between the two meetings. Geomedia consultant, Rivo Noorkõiv, held a...

In the framework of the Marie Curie ITN RegPol2, Geomedia employee and PhD student, Bianka Plüschke-Altof, will attend a number of events in order to advance her research and discuss the first research results with a broader public. Focusing on socio-spatial discourses, she will introduce the conceptual framework and discuss...

Rivo Noorkõiv and Dago Antov published an article on the “Development of Mobility Environment in Tallinn: a Challenge for Public Transport” in the Quarterly Bulletin of Statistics Estonia 3/16. The growing relative importance of urbanites in the global population is accompanied by an increasing attention towards the development taking place on the field of the...

In the newspaper “Valgamaalane” an interview was published with Geomedia consultant Rivo Noorkõiv under the headline “Municipality amalgamation is like tailoring a custom-made suit”. At the focus of the article were general developments in the local government amalgamation reform. Above all, it concentrated on the amalgamation negotiations of Helme, Hummuli,...

Geomedia Ltd and the Centre for Applied Social Sciences of the  University of Tartu compose a general conceptual framework for the evaluation of local governments’ public services, As a result, the  designed method will be tested and data analyzed. The method offers the opportunity to evaluate the capacity of the Estonian local...