Estonia Allocates EUR 722,000 to Georgia

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Estonia is to allocate EUR 2.8 million (6.8 million GEL) for around 40 new projects of development cooperation in Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine and Belarus, reported the Estonian Public Broadcaster. All the projects will take place in 2016-2018.

“Projects include those relating to cyber security, the development of female entrepreneurship, the development of e-health services, improving the creative economy, agriculture, digital market and digitalization, improving the ability to fight corruption, as well as various projects in the field of education and training,” stated Marina Kaljurand, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia. “Estonia has much to offer the world in various fields.”

16 of the 40 projects will be implemented in Ukraine, to a total cost of EUR 1.2 million (about 3 mln GEL). In Moldova 12 projects will be carried out, for which Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Estonia has allocated EUR 733,198 (1.7 million GEL) and for Belarus 239,739 EUR (587,360 GEL) will be allocated for five projects. Georgia will receive 721,964 EUR (1.7 million GEL) to implement ten projects.

The Estonian Public Broadcaster reported that 14 of the projects were approved in the field of education while nine projects have been approved in the field of entrepreneurship and six in the IT field. Four projects were approved in the health field, including e-health. Three projects relate to the development of civil society, two for agriculture and fisheries, and two for media development.

All projects are funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Estonia for the development of cooperation and humanitarian aid funds.

Eka Karsaulidze