Shared research for efficient use of the wind energy, joint orienteering sport activities and school cooperation to educate the youth in the world of media – these and other thematically varied new cooperation activities will soon be carried out in our Programme.
It was decided early this week to commit altogether around 4,5 million euro to Estonian – Latvian cooperation activities that help to develop our joint region and strengthen the ties between neighbours in different fields and through different approaches. All projects still have to fulfil specified conditions for the final approval.
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Approved projects:
“GORWIND” - project aims at fostering more efficient use of the wind energy in future by providing decision makers and potential developers of wind parks in the Gulf of Riga with reliable marine wind information from high resolution remote sensing data. Research institutes of both countries carrying out the project also plan to complement the purely technical data and wind measurements with the information on wintering and habitat area for seals, migrating and breeding birds. Local people and authorities will be involved in the process of selection of suitable areas for wind parks, and their attitude towards the wind parks and renewable energy issues will be examined and considered in the decision making.
“MLEDU” – the project aims at increasing school students’ media literacy and interest in local issues. This will be done through improvement of media study programmes in local schools in the regions of Tartu and Madona, also attracting the media professionals. Seminars, practical workshops, study visits to media organizations and students’ own creative activities will be carried out within the project, and school exchanges will help to improve the quality and attract higher interest of the Estonian and Latvian students in the media world.
“ICT DCNet” – project connecting Tartu, Riga and Venspils information and communication technology (ICT) demonstration centres in a Demo Centre network similar to ones existing in Scandinavia. The participating centres will provide rotating exhibition of ICT hardware prototypes and software applications. Synchronizing of the study program module “Artificial intelligence” is also among the project objectives. In result of these activities, regional competitiveness and economic growth would be increased, while more university and also school students get important experience exchange and develop higher interest in the field of ICT mechanics.
“Skills Center” – project that plans to increase the local competitiveness in the industrial field of mechatronics. This will be achieved by creating strong cross-border Skills Centre for analysis, knowledge transfer and consulting, raising the competence of entrepreneurs, staff and students of vocational & higher education institutions in the field of product development. Skills Centre will offer specialized trainings and provide the target industries with relevant know-how in different stages of the product development process. The project will be carried out in cooperation among Ogre Business Innovation Incubator, Ventspils University College and Tartu Science Park.
“Est-O-Lat league” – given the considerable experience of both Estonian and Latvian orienteering federations and local orienteering clubs, a joint project has been developed to improve the orienteering as sport and hobby for the people of both countries. This will be achieved through series of activities like study days in 30 schools, training days for map developers, creating of new and high quality orienteering maps (covered area 110 km2) and organizing 20 orienteering league competitions with nearly 12 000 participants.
“FFF” – a group of local non-profit organizations from Estonia and Latvia plan to organize joint football trainings and competitions for altogether approximately 1400 children from both countries. Using football as the main unifying theme, project also plans various complementing cultural and educational activities (including basic Estonian and Latvian language training) to develop closer ties between the Estonian and Latvian youth communities.
“MOTO” - this project helps two local motocross clubs to offer educative and interesting challenges like amateur training camps and competitions to youngsters (aged 5-16). The activities are targeted also to the local children living near the motocross tracks, as well as at improving the already existing contacts between the motocross clubs in both countries. In addition, the project will ensure availability of easy and freely accessible, highly qualified and interactive study-materials of motocross. The project will be implemented by a local Motorcycle Club K&K in Estonia and Latvian Amateur Motocross Union.
“Young Sailors” – project promoting and facilitating training and competitive activities of young yachtsmen from Riga, Saaremaa and Parnu. Cooperation between young sailors, their parents and coaches in both countries will take place thanks to joint training camps, regattas, seminars and public sailing events. Project will be carried out through cooperation of Laser Class Association (LCA) and Latvian Sailing Federation (LSF) in Latvia, Saaremaa Association of Marine Sport (SMS) and Parnu Yacht Club (PYC) in Estonia.
“DELMA” – project to increase cohesion in the management of public services and resources in the health care sector. The project will be carried out in cooperation among the University of Tartu and Pauls Stradins Clinical University Hospital, as well as 4 local hospitals operating 6 facilities on both sides of the border. Among other activities related to closer cooperation and experience exchange, the hospitals will work on developments in the area of regenerative medicine. The long term goal is to generate tissues for transplant operations and cells for biopharmaceutical products.
