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“Koduvald” – the newspaper of Saue rural municipality published Rivo Noorkõiv’s article titled “The spiral staircase of governing a country”. The author published his opinion on the thesises by the Minister for Regional Affairs on the reform of local governments. The administrative reform is a question of power. The changes...

Within the framework of the renewal of Tartu’s 2030 Strategy, Geomedia in cooperation with Tartu city government initiates think tanks, which focus on the discussion of Tartu’s future. Until today the exchange of ideas has centred on the role and position of Tartu as a second city next to the...

On May 11, 2012 the second inclusion seminar for the compilation of “Tartu County 2030” regional strategy was held with almost 50 participants from various fields of activities.The main focus of the event was centered at defining key areas for this strategy and the main tasks needed to undertake in...

An international conference called “The EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region and topical legal and economic issues, including insolvency” was held between November 8-9, 2012. The second panel of the conference focused on the collaboration between public, private and the third sector as well as the cooperation networks in...

An estimated number of more than 5.000 officials work in local government service. Considering the requirement of each service position and the educational background of the officials, the objective of this work is to analyze, how critical and massive the future need for special training of local government officials related...

On May 30, 2012 Tartu Business Advisory Services organised a development day for the entrepreneurs of Tartu County, called “Good ideas, good knowledge, good action!”. Rivo Noorkõiv, a consultant of Geomedia made a presentation about the present situation of entrepreneurship in Tartu County and it's development scenarios. This presentation is...

Within the framework of “Supporting the preparation of Local Government’s amalgamation and service provision”, a guide for the implementation of local government amalgamation processes was drawn up on behalf of the Estonian Ministry of Interior. In this, the former experiences of voluntary amalgamation practices were summed up and example documents...

On 19th of July 2014 the analysis of the think tank “Praxis”, ordered by the Estonian Ministry of Education and Research was published. In the analysis, a change in the school network is forecasted for 2020. It proves that pivotal changes are going to happen within the next six years...

Our new colleague, Bianka Plüschke, was selected in an international competition in the context of the International Training Network “Socio-economic and Political Responses to Regional Polarisation in Central and Eastern Europe” (RegPol²). Her main duty is to prepare a PhD thesis on “Development Perspectives for Village Communities in Rural Estonia”....

On 10th of April 2015 seminar with Geomedia and the representatives of Haapsalu city council and government took place, focusing on the topic of Haapsalu’s positioning against the backdrop of Estonia’s regional development and on possible development policies for Haapsalu. Haapsalu’s development potential was identified with the help of the local government capacity index results,...