Good Governance Program news
Estonian Human Development Report 2019/2020 is now available in English
The Estonian Human Development Report 2019/2020 "Spatial Choices for an Urbanised Society" is now available to everyone in English. Read the report in digital form.
Estonian Human Development Report 2018/2019 focuses on democracy and public space
The Council of the Cooperation Assembly set democracy and public space as the the main topic for social scientists to cover in the next Estonian Human Development Report The shortcomings and potentials of democracy appear also in public space - our daily living...
ERR News: Estonia unable to maintain population size without immigration
ERR news 1.60.2017
Estonian will not be able to maintain its population size without immigration, according to the fresh Human Development Report, which fund that if high rates of emigration continue and birth rates remain low, Estonia’s population could shrink to below 800,000 by the end of the 21st century.
Human Development Report: Estonia’s challenge is to maintain its population and a better-related society
The main message of the Human Development Report to be introduced today in Riigikogu is that Estonia’s size of population will not be maintained without migration. Hence, Estonia has to decide whether we want to manage migration in a favourable way for us or merely...
The people´s assembly and vision of future aging
Current situation People hope that their income during retirement will be 70-90% of their salary. However, the national pension system cannot provide more than 35-40 percent in the future. In Estonia among the population aged 65 and older 18% of people are actively...
#SELFIE2050, or a deliberately planned retirement
Liisi Uder Müürileht Public understanding of pension changes with their work, which in the future, more than ever before, will be based on personal responsibility, self-realisation needs and on lifelong learning and career models. I am parting my hair down the middle...
Is it an illusion? A participatory website allows ordinary people to participate in state government
A little over a year ago, public attention was attracted by the “Let us live! “ appeal, which was initiated by the infamous writer Kaur Kender. In this appeal, people asked to change the basics of drug policy, as it is destroying the lives of young people in Estonia....
Тiit Tammaru, Kristina Kallas, Raul Eamets: the Future of the Estonian Nation State
The level of well-being in Estonia has grown so much that Estonia is being transformed into a country that attracts immigrants. On the other hand, our population is shrinking and ageing, and the required volume of immigration to maintain a stable population numbers...
New year activities of Assembly of Cooperation
In 2017, we shall continue to work on the "Pension 2050" program, on administration of the civil initiative web platform, on a large-scale awareness-building effort. As well, we are going to release a report on the development of human potential in relation to...
Teele Pehk introducing People’s Assembly and rahvaalgatus.ee at the conference “Innovating Democracy” in Amsterdam
Teele Pehk, the CEO of the Estonian Cooperation Assembly, will give a presentation about co-creation in policy-making and everyday-democracy at the conference "Innovating Democracy" on 1st of December 2016 in Amsterdam. Teele will tell about change-making with the...
The Pension 2050 vision conference introduced the concept of the “new old age”
The Pension 2050 vision conference took place in Tallinn University on 4 November 2016 and introduced the concept of the “new old age”. During the conference, it was realised that, in addition to essential changes in the state pension system development planned by the...
The Pension 2050 vision conference will focus on the role of both the state and individual in shaping the old age of the future
PRESS RELEASE This Friday, 4 November, the Estonian Cooperation Assembly and Ministry of the Interior invite all interested parties to attend the Pension 2050 vision conference. The conference takes place in Tallinn University from 10:00 to 17:00 and aims to find...
Invite the Citizen Initiative Portal to visit you!
The publication of the Citizen Initiative Portal has been recognised as the greatest achievement of the Open Governance Partnership Action Plan for 2014-2016 in the field of open policy-making. To date, we have sent over 7,000 digital signatures to the Estonian...
Pension 2050 programme first half-year is over
The last six months have been full of substantial creativity, discussion and vision. The following is a short overview of these activities. We conducted three discussions with different focus groups to gather thoughts and opinions on the future of elderly people. The...
Summary of the Open Governance workshop (31.5 and 1.06.2016)
Estonian Cooperation Assembly together with the Open Estonia Foundation and the team of CitizenOS.com organised a two-day workshop on open governance and public decision-making in 2025. On the first day more general presentations and discussions were held about the...
Introducing the team of Estonian Human Development Report
The editorial team of the Estonian Human Development Report on global Estonianism, which will be published in the spring of 2017, includes prominent figures such as Tiit Tammaru (Editor in Chief), Raul Eamets, Kristina Kallas, Allan Well, Rein Ahas, Anu Realo, Anna...
Liisi Uder: It’s time to wake up and change our pension expectations
More active older age is in our common interest In the hundred years after the 1880s, state pension systems were developed, offering people the possibility of both an increasingly early retirement and a good income for those who did not work anymore. At the end of the...
Rahvaalgatus.ee, a website that enables to collectively address the Estonian parliament ‘Riigikogu’ is launched!
An environment for discussions and petitions rahvaalgatus.ee is open for public use and testing. The website offers a possibility to make collective propositions to the parliament in order to improve life in Estonia. To do this, a co-created initiative needs to gather...
Professor Tiit Tammaru is Editor in Chief of the Global Estonianism themed Estonian Human Development Report
The Council of the Foundation Estonian Cooperation selected the Editor in Chief of the Human Development Report to be issued in the spring of 2017 from two candidates – the draft submitted by urban and population geography professor Tiit Tammaru was chosen. The draft...
Conclusions of the Plan for Good Governance: the topic is discussed, but there are not enough real changes
PRESS RELEASE Today the Estonian Cooperation Assembly will present the overview of the Good Governance Program, which took place over three years. The seminar at Cinema Sõprus will discuss which changes have been made a year after the good governance proposals were...
The new citizen initiative portal will be called rahvaalgatus.ee
The Estonian Cooperation Assembly is creating a new Citizen Initiative Portal, which makes it possible to compose and send collective initiatives to the Estonian Parliament (Riigikogu). In November there was a name competition for the new portal. The winning name was...
Human Development Report 2014/2015 is available in English
The Human Development Report 2014/2015 is now also available also in English from here. Also, it is possible to order a printed version (only in Estonian) from here. The Human Development Report has been issued from 2006 by the Estonian Cooperation Assembly and...
25% feel excluded: Estonian Human Development Report
Äripäev, Toomas Hõbemägi Estonia will today unveil its new human development report whose key finding is that in the last ten years, the share of population who feel excluded from the society has not decreased. Other conclusions include that the nation lacks economic...
Ilves presents compilation of his speeches in Russian
Baltic Course President of Estonia Toomas Hendrik Ilves presented a book "Räägib Riigipea" (Govorit glava gosudarstva/The Head of State Speaking) in Tallinn Central Russian Gymnasium, which collates a selection of speeches given by the Head of State from 2006 to 2012,...
The political statement of President Toomas Hendrik Ilves at the Riigikogu
Postimees in English, President Ilves Honourable legislature, Riigikogu, I stand here today to keep the promise I made publicly last year on November 21st. I made this promise at the meeting in Kadriorg's Ice Cellar where representatives of the voluntary sector,...
President asks parliament to take People’s Assembly proposals seriously
Postimees in English President Toomas Hendrik Ilves who on Tuesday presented to parliament the proposals of the Rahvakogu (People's Assembly) crowdsourcing initiative asked the legislators to take them seriously. In the president's words, the objective of the...
People’s Assembly supports introducing popular initiative into law
Postimees in English Participants in the day of deliberation of the Estonian crowdsourcing initiative Rahvakogu (People's Assembly) who gathered at the song festival ground in Tallinn on Saturday to discuss the hundreds of proposals collected at the beginning of the...
People’s Assembly Results: Lower Election Threshold, But ‘No’ to Direct Presidential Elections
ERR The People’s Assembly deliberation day wound up on Saturday with 16 proposals receiving support and two being voted out. The citizen's parliament, a crowdsourcing initiative designed to find and fix sore spots in the political system, reached its final act today,...
‘People’s Assembly’ to Hold Day of Deliberation Saturday
ERR The People’s Assembly, or Rahvakogu, a grass-roots initiative designed to find solutions to political sore spots such as party financing and electoral laws, will hold its general debate on various proposals this Saturday. During the one-day session, 500 members of...
Interim Report on People’s Assembly to Be Released
ERR Analysts from the Praxis political think tank will over the next few days release a number of interim reports on the status of the People's Assembly, an online citizen's forum spearheaded by President Toomas Hendrik Ilves. "Every issue will have a summary that...
Organizer Happy with Quality of Proposals in People’s Assembly
With close to 2,000 proposals submitted to the People's Assembly over 25 days, one of the NGOs behind the dialogue-bolstering forum said quality maintained an even pace with quantity. On the day after the public submission of initiatives ended at a unofficial count of...
People’s Assembly Seeks 500 to Debate Proposals
The People's Assembly, a website championed by the Estonian president that is collecting ideas to fix controversial laws, mainly on the electoral system and political parties, has begun the process of finding 500 people to debate and decide on proposals for reforms....
Citizens’ Parliament Update, One Week On
Since its launch one week ago, the People's Assembly website has received around 500 proposals, most aiming to reform the electoral system and political party financing rules. The website, rahvakogu.kogu.ee, a volunteer initiative that grew out of the recent political...
Day Three: Citizen’s Parliament Draws Election Reform Ideas
On the third day of operation of the People's Assembly website, people have filed 237 proposals, with the bulk of them aiming to reform the electoral system and political financing rules. As of Wednesday morning, 117 proposals were made regarding elections, 52...
NGOs Launch Crowd-Sourcing Project to Repair Democracy
The "People's Assembly," an initiative that came out of political turmoil and aims to bring the lawmaking process closer to citizens, was launched today, ETV reported. Materializing as a website - rahvakogu.kogu.ee - the initiative has turned to crowd-sourcing to fix...