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Population: 1.34 million

Capital: Tallinn

Official language: Estonian(similar to Finnish language)

Currency: Euro

Member of EU and NATO: 2004

Member of Schengen zone: 2007

E-country: 100% schools and

government online, digital

paperwork, digital signatures.

Country credit ratings

Fitch A+

S&P AA-

Moody’s A1

Estonia – by the Baltic Sea



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• Area: 204

6,49 km²

• Population: 33 299

• Population density:

15,3 person per km²

• 2 town and 11 rural

municipalities

• Administrative centre:

Valga town

• Distance from Tallinn

245 km, Riga 168 km

Tõrva

Population: 2 736

Valga

Population: 12 539

Valga county

OtepääPopulation: 2 141



Municipalities – roles

• Social work & health care,

• Education, culture sports,

• Public technical services (water supply,

sewerage, heating etc),• Environmental control,

• Local infrastructure planning and building(roads, public facilities),

• Local development planning.



Need for cooperation

• Lack of resources in local municipalities for

all activities and roles,

• Lack of competent specialists in local

municipalities,

• No capacity for bigger projects,

• Need for sectorial cooperation within the

county in special areas.



Valga County Association

of Local Authorities• Common goal – united development in the

county.

• Formed in1992, all the municipalities of Valga

County are represented.

• Legal form is NGO.

• The highest body is General Meeting, every

municipality has 2 votes.• Board of directors - 4 members.

• Personnel – CEO, secretary, book-keeper,

environmental department (4 persons).



Development department

• Counselling in business plans, EU financing

projects, destination development and

marketing

• Opinions and positions in tourism anddevelopment issues

• Project writing and management,

• Coordination of tourism activities,representing in tourism issues.



Environmental department

• Water – one supplier, harmonized water and

sewer service rates, joint projects.

• Waste – organised waste collection with one

rate, waste stations network, joint planning.• Environmental supervision – common basis

for legal acts, united monitoring and control

system, cooperation with national supervisor

organisations, supervision tasks,

representing municipalities in environmental

issues.



1,8 million € for developing 1 296 km cycling route

„Tour de LatEst“

Signs, parking and resting places, info boards;Route maps and broshures;

Technical documentation of light traffic roads;

Joint marketing activities;

Marathon on July 11-24, 2010International Cycling Conference Oct 2010, Valga.

ViSoEst by Bike (Est-Lat)



Via Hanseatica (Est-Lat-Rus)

1,8 million € for developing

tourism VIA HANSEATICA

in Estonia, Latvia, Russia

(2012-2014).

From transport corridor to

attractive tourism route:

rising quality of services,

product development, jointmarketing materials and

activities.

www.arenguagentuur.ee



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Via Hanseatica



Riverways(Est-Lat)

1,8 million € for developing water tourism in Estonia and

Latvia (2013-2014).

Cleaning river banks, building resting places, planning water tourism and infrastructure, developing new routes, rising

services quality by trainings, joint marketing materials and

activities.

www.arenguagentuur.ee



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Riverways



TRES (Interreg IVc)

1,4 million € for developing Smart Specialization in EUregions: Estonia, Finland, Scotland, Italy, Germany,

Hungary, Romania, Spain (2012-2014).

Analysing regions, spreading innovation basedinformation and good practices, updating regional

development strategies.

www.tr3s-project.eu/

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