Despite cold weather forecasts, a Hockey camp over the weekend of February 3 – 5 is scheduled in Võru county in Estonia. Students from Ape, Latvia, and Rõuge, Estonia, will participate.

A hands-on fish and meat processing workshop, organized by experts of “FoodArt” project, will take place on February 8, 2012, at Tartu Vocational Center kitchen. The workshop will bring together professionals from Estonia and Latvia that are producing and processing fish and meat products.

Starting January 31, 2012, Estonia – Latvia Programme has its own profile on social networking site Facebook. You can find us there if you search “Estonia – Latvia Programme”. Once you have found us, you should press “I like” and you will receive our latest updates on your wall.

Experts from Estonia and Latvia will meet in Pärnu on January 31 and February 1, 2012, to discuss joint plan for Gauja / Koiva river basin district management. Gauja / Koiva project implementers believe that it is important to harmonize approaches for typology of water bodies and classification of water quality status in rivers, lakes and coastal waters between Estonia and Latvia.

Students from Lähte, Estonia, will visit Madona, Latvia, this week to participate in workshops and lectures about media literacy and video production. 15 students from Estonia together with 30 students from Latvia will jointly produce short videos for young people about different winter sports activities.

You can definitely find them on local classifieds portal for the border regions of Setomaa in Estonia and Ape in Latvia. This cross-border classifieds portal on the internet www.setoape.eu, where locally grown and produced products can be advertised and sold, is up and running since December 2011.

This might sound unacceptable to you, but we recommend skipping one visit to your local bakery and come to a baking workshop instead and learn the secrets of baking yourself! Estonia – Latvia programme supported project FoodArt is starting the series of cooking workshops and the first one, taking place in Tartu, Estonia, on January 23 and 24, will be devoted to baked goods. 

Estonia – Latvia Programme website Estlat.eu has been shortlisted among this year’s finalists for European Commission’s prestigious Regio Stars Awards for Innovative Projects.

If you happen to live or travel through Põlva, we recommend visiting Põlva Cultural Centre, where you can see travelling exhibit on eagles. The exhibit will be in Põlva until mid-February.