News & events

Bolt, the Estonian-founded and headquartered global transportation platform providing ride-hailing and scooter sharing services, was chosen Europe’s hottest unicorn at The Europas Awards 2020.

Tallinn, the capital of Estonia leads Consumer Choice Center’s Sharing Economy Index.

With a score of 92.11 out of a possible 100, Estonian Investment Agency, has come out on top in a major news report looking at investment promotion agencies (IPAs) across the emerging Europe region.

This year’s Emerging Europe Awards recognised Tallinn as the number one city in smart city development.

This spring, Estonian schoolkids studied in virtual schools due to the lockdown caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Estonia’s smooth switch to e-learning has been exceptional! In fact, Estonia has been preparing for extensive use of e-learning for 25 years, since the Tiger Leap initiative in the 1990s, that brought IT and the Internet to all schools across the country and has made the nation tech-savvy.

The summer 2020 issue of Life in Estonia magazine focuses on the revolution in education initiated by Estonians and why that nation can be proudly called an Education Nation.

Can you imagine that dishes in your favourite fine dining restaurant are made with the help of robots? Better get used to it! Today, Estonian startup FoodDocs is launching a food safety bot for restaurants. Chef de cuisine Herkki Ruubel, who has worked with world-famous chefs such as Gordon Ramsay, explains how the bot is helping restaurants offer safe food and even develop more delicious dishes.

In May, Estonia celebrated the end of lockdown with the world’s largest digital choir concert, showing both the joy of life and how digital mindset is widespread in our digital wonderland. Only a few days earlier the first ever Estonian Online Startup Demo Day brought together the crème de la crème of Estonian startups and investors from around the world to join their forces and turn the crisis into profit. Here is the latest business and investment news from Estonia.