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On the 5th of December 2014 the seminar of URBACT took place in Tallinn in cooperation with URBACT Secretary in Paris and the Estonian Ministry of the Interior. The event was moderated by Geomedia's consultant Rivo Noorkõiv. The URBACT European Territorial Cooperation program was founded in 2002 and it promotes...

In April, Geomedia hosted RegPol² senior researcher Cyril Blondel. Cyril took part in the undertakings of the company and Rivo Noorkõiv, the head of Geomedia, introduced him and Bianka Plüschke, a fellow RegPol² researcher who is currently employed at Geomedia, to consultancy work in Estonia. In Cyril’s words, the visit...

On behalf of the Ministry of Education and Research, Geomedia conducted an analysis with the objective of proposing potential locations for state gymnasiums on the municipality level in Harjumaa county (incl. Tallinn city districts). This objective was approached by two scenarios: the first scenario takes into account the effectiveness and...

In cooperation with Tartu city and the local governments bordering it, Geomedia prepared the document “Tartu urban area sustainable development strategy 2015-2020”. For the implementation of the vision of “Tartu urban area as the best urban living environment with growing population and high internal cohesion, which is recognised as a...

On the 8th of December 2015 Geomedia PhD student Bianka Plüschke-Altof held a public lecture at the Slovak Technical University (STU) in Bratislava. The lecture was held under the topic “Images of the Periphery impeding Rural Development? The concept of Peripheralization” and took place as part of a 4-months secondment...

On September, 20.-21. 2014 the event “Community speakers” in the framework of the project „Big Peter and small Peter“ takes place in the Vastseliina community house. 90 representatives of county cooperation association are expected from different regions all over Estonia. It is positive that free associations and/or village elders’ associations...

In cooperation between Geomedia and the Estonian Ministry of the Interior the participation of county governments in international cooperation organizations and networks was mapped out. The payment of membership fee (CPMR, B7, ESIN, IIGA, NGO Euregio Pskov-Livonia and the economic cooperative of Valge county and Jämtland, Sweden) was taken as...

On 10.-11. December 2015 Geomedia consultant Rivo Noorkõiv conducted a 2-days training on “Strategic Management and Local Government Development Planning” for local government leaders. The seminar focused on holistically managing development processes, forming multi-level governance and on development documentation systems as leadership tool for local governments. On the example of practical cases concrete solutions to...

In March 2015, Helme rural municipality proposed the initiation of amalgamation negotiations to its neighboring municipalities, to which Tõrva, Hummuli and Põdrala municipalities replied positively. After that, the negotiations have been continually progressing: several meetings with municipality leaders, establishment of negotiation working groups, preparation of the area’s demographic and social-economic situational analysis and...

On 21st of October 2016 a vision conference took place in the conference hall of Valga’s Centre for Culture and Extracurricular Activities. The conference’s objective was to display a sense of community during the municipality amalgamation, to ease the amalgamation related fears and discuss the future perspectives for Karula, Taheva, Tõlliste and Õru rural municipalities...