At today’s meeting, the Tallinn City Government appointed new district governors for Kesklinn and Pirita. Starting from August 20th, Ahti Kallikorm will lead the Kesklinn district, and Ivan Lavrentjev will head the Pirita district.
The proposals from the Citizens’ Assembly have led to 61 initiatives to make the city greener and more people-centric: 20 have already been completed, 28 are underway, and 13 are still to come.
On 25–26 September, the international festival Cities After Dark will take place in Tallinn, bringing together the local community as well as experts and urban developers from across Europe to discuss the challenges and opportunities of nightlife and the night-time economy.
Tallinn Mayor Jevgeni Ossinovski met yesterday with Halyna Shymanska, Acting Mayor of Zhytomyr, and Valentyn Arendarchuk, Head of the city's Department of Education. The meeting took place as part of an educational visit from Zhytomyr, during which cooperation between the cities in the field of education was discussed.
Through the Test in Tallinn programme, the city offers companies the opportunity to trial innovative solutions that support smart city development. In the September application round, the evaluation committee selected eight new projects for testing from a record 29 applications.
This autumn, the City of Tallinn and the FinEst Centre for Smart Cities have launched a pilot project in which city buses and waste collection vehicles will begin detecting damaged or missing traffic signs. Smart sensors, or cameras, installed on the vehicles will transmit real-time information to the city about the condition of traffic signs.
The Tallinnovation competition, which supports smart city solutions, received ten applications this year. The city of Tallinn, along with the Tehnopol Science and Business Park, chose four winners from among the ten applicants. The winners will receive 100,000 euros of investment, which is a record-breaking sum.
The Tallinn City Government submitted a draft of the third supplementary budget of 2023 to the city council. According to the draft, the city budget will increase by 46.5 million euros. Should the draft be adopted, the final budget for 2023 will be 1.18 billion euros.