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The introduction to the Local Government Capacity Index analysis will take place on Friday, 10th of October 2014. The consultation and training centre Geomedia prepares the index on behalf on the Estonian Ministry of Interior already for six years. The result of this work is a coherent database of comparable...

Geomedia assisted Lääne-Nigula municipality with the forecast of the number of students in lower secondary school in Lääne-Nigula until 2030. For quality education sector in the municipality, it is important to design a long term education management plan. The future of the schools plays a central role here. On February...

Viimsi parish council confirmed the development plan 2014-2020. The development plan, which was prepared in cooperation of Geomedia and Viimsi parish, was renewed in several ways. It has to be noted that many inhabitants participated in the public discussion on the development plan. The written proposals received during the announcement...

Geomedia facilitates the preparation of Jõgeva local government development plan for the years 2015-2019. Geomedia consulting and training center provides the methodology for the plan preparation process. In order to ensure that the inhabitants’ interests will be accounted for, discussions with different interest groups are carried out and the best...

On the 20th of November 2014 a regional study seminar financed by the European territorial cooperation program ESPON took place in the Estonian Ministry of Interior. At the focus was the Estonian development in the European and Baltic Sea context. Priidu Ristkok from the Ministry of Interior introduced the Estonian...

In the Quarterly Bulletin of Statistics Estonia 1/15 an article titled „Suburbanization in Tartu“ was published by Antti Roose, Rivo Noorkõiv and Martin Gauk. In the article the authors discuss suburbanisation as geographical and functional expansion of the urban region, which should be treated as natural process. The article analyses...

In cooperation with Lääne-Nigula parish and Geomedia, development plan 2014-2022 for Lääne-Nigula was prepared and confirmed by the municipal council. This is the first time for the parish after the amalgamation. The development plan unites the data of the former Risti, Taebla and Oru municipalities and future perspectives. The objective...

Geomedia is counselling the renewal of Tallinn’s city development plan 2016-2021. In the course of this work a situation analysis is conducted, also the strategic aims and operational priorities of the capital city are updated for the four coming years. The ambition is to increase the strategic importance of the development plan in governing...

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...