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Tallinn – European Green Capital 2023 is hoping to include local people to contribute to the success of the green transition.

We are looking for new initiatives and ideas to promote and support environmentally friendly events, solutions and community activities among different stakeholders that focus on one or more of the European Green Capital focus themes below:

Inclusive city: projects with the community and non-profit organizations, involving city residents in development etc. An inclusive city creates a better urban environment together with local communities, discusses, asks for opinions and ideas, and takes into account the needs of the community. The project brings joy, increases the well-being of local people or makes their daily lives smoother.

Smart city: green innovation, collaboration with start-ups, green companies, researchers, and universities making new green solutions or products, green innovations in the city. Together with entrepreneurs, residents, researchers and students, smart city is looking for new innovative solutions to make the urban environment better, cleaner, and more humane and environmentally friendly. The project creates something new and raises Tallinn’s awareness of environmental issues at the national or international level.

Sustainable city: a green, humane, and cohesive urban space, a city based on sustainable development goals. A sustainable city, in cooperation with the urban population, will create a greener and more humane urban space, based on the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The project will create new sustainable solutions or bring solutions already tested elsewhere in Tallinn.

Learning city: projects and events aimed at environmental awareness and education, lifelong learning. A learning city develops and adapts to changes in the world and helps its inhabitants to better understand why it is necessary to preserve the living environment and how they can contribute to the protection of the environment.

The initiatives must contribute to at least one of the aspects of the European Green Capital goals: air quality, noise, water, sustainable land use and soil, waste and the circular economy, green growth and innovation, nature and biodiversity, climate change mitigation, adaptation, sustainable urban mobility, energy.

The ideas we are looking for must be new or offer some new direction / venture as part of an existing event that will add value to the 2023 European Green Capital title year. We prefer activities with the greatest possible impact.

The project must take place in the period January-December 2023. We can also provide cooperation support to an applicant who has already been allocated or plans to apply for support from another agency or organization in the city of Tallinn.

If you have any good initiatives, please send us your ideas to: kati.remmelkoor@tallinnlv.ee and describe the following:

• A brief description of the initiative

• Estimated budget

• Connection with the goals of Tallinn – European Green Capital 2023

• Messages and methods of involvement (local / international audience, community)

• A description of the short- and long-term impact of the project on the environment and the community

• Cooperation proposal to the city

• Other partners

Let’s make the living environment of Tallinn better together!