From 21–24 May 2025, Tallinn will host Latitude59, the leading international conference in the region for technology and startups. The City of Tallinn is actively contributing to the event with substantive partnerships, side events, and an exhibition booth at Kultuurikatel.
In 2024, a new sports centre with the Olympic swimming pool, a leisure centre and a hotel will be completed in Lasnamäe, at Varraku 14a. A public contest was announced this week to find the name for the future building.
From this week, the website of the Tallinn Board of Education provides access to the hobby e-guide, which gives information on hobby groups and hobby opportunities for 148 schoolchildren and toddlers.
From 17 May, groups of up to 25 people are allowed to attend public events and meetings and entertainment venues outdoors. People can visit outdoor public saunas, spas, swimming pools, and water parks, provided that the number of participants does not exceed 25 people per group.
Until the end of the swimming season, it is prohibited to wash and bathe animals in Kopli Bay in order to ensure the proper quality of seawater and its safety for human health.
Haabersti district government organised the building of an outdoor swimming pool by the beach of Lake Harku. The pool will remain open until the end of the bathing season.
With the Green Card update project, Tallinn is participating in the Global Mayors Challenge organized by the Bloomberg Philanthropies Foundation, which was founded by Michael Bloomberg, the former Mayor of New York.
The Tallinn City Government has proposed that the City Council amend regulations so that the rate of the parent’s share in kindergarten fees would stay at its current level for residents of Tallinn.
At today’s cabinet meeting, the members of the Government approved the decisions on the basis of which even more wide-ranging restrictions will come into force in Estonia from Thursday, March 11 until April 11. The restrictions will be eased when the spread of the coronavirus in Estonia has been reduced to the level that does not endanger the medical system’s ability to function. Today the government adopted the decisions in principle, the plan is to approve the corresponding order at tomorrow’s extraordinary meeting.