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Country: Estonia
Recipient
authorities: Office of European Integration in Tallinn and 15 regional
information centres in Estonia
Concept of Team Europe.
The European Institute has established national networks of Team
Europe in Estonia (1998), Lithuania (2003) and Latvia
(2003).
Project
description:
The overall goal of the project was to establish 15 regional EU info
centres in Estonia and to educate the staff for the centres. Each of the
15 counties in Estonia should have one info centre. The immediate
objective was to create an organisation - a ‘Team Europe’, similar to
be found in some Member States and a few of the candidate countries in
Central and Eastern Europe.
The project was implemented from November 1997 to
October 1998 in various parts of Estonia and with study tours to
Copenhagen.
30 staff members were educated in horizontal
EU-issues and in selected major chapters of the acquis,
such as the Internal Market, agriculture, regional policy, environment,
employment and consumer protection. In
addition, the staff received training specific related to Public Relation,
management, sources for EU-information and finally presentation techniques
vis á vis the public media (TV, radio and written) and for ‘own’
audience.
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European
Institute - Denmark