The City of Tallinn will support youth sport with €6.6 million this year, nearly half a million more than last year. The amount of participant support for trainees and trainers will increase from €200 to €220.
Tallinn is inviting young people to join the Future Mentors programme to help shape a sustainable future for Tallinn. One of the young mentors will also have the opportunity to be part of Tallinn's delegation to the annual meeting of Eurocities, Europe's largest network of cities, in Espoo this June.
Tallinn is a UNESCO City of Music from October 2021, and in this context the city has opened a call for applications to support music events taking place in Tallinn. In the first music grant round of the year, Tallinn awarded a total of €53,584 to 11 music projects.
The Tallinn City Government sent a supplementary budget to the City Council, which will increase the salaries of people working in the city's institutions by seven per cent from 1 March. Kindergarten and hobby school teachers will receive a 7.4% pay rise, while kindergarten assistant teachers will get a 13.3% pay rise.
The funding round, co-led by Tiger Global and Alkeon, joined by existing investors IVP and Accel, brings Veriff’s total funding to 0M and its valuation to .5B, as it aims to expand its global customer base and deliver trusted online identity verifications.
The year 2022 will bring close to ninety high-level international competitions to Tallinn, including twenty-one World and European Championships as well as World and European Cups. In total, Tallinn will support hosting international sports events with more than €865,000 this year.
Tallinn will become a UNESCO City of Music from 2022, and the development of the Tallinn City Theatre will be the biggest cultural investment in next year's city budget.
By Tuesday, City Centre and in Nõmme districts had reached the legitimacy quota on the participatory budget vote. Residents in the other districts are encouraged to actively contribute to reaching the minimum required.
Tallinn City Government has approved the draft city budget for 2022 with a total of €1.033 billion in revenue and expenditure, €76.4 million or 8% more than this year's revised budget.