Kuusk also highlighted the NGO QUIN-Estonia project (QUIN – Qinnliga Uppfinnare i Norden or Inventive Nordic Women, a cooperation network representing female inventors and innovative women from Scandinavia), which will allow female inventors from the Nordic countries, the Baltic States and St Petersburg to present their creations in Tallinn in October this year.
Estonian non-governmental organisations and non-profit organisations with an open and democratic structure that are recognised by the public and not owned by state agencies or private companies or controlled by them can apply for grants from the Nordic-Baltic NGO Programme in Estonia.
Project applications that meet all of the requirements and that beneficial to society as a whole as well as to cooperation between NGOs are successful. The priority area of the call for proposals in 2014 is sustainable development according to the Estonian National Strategy on Sustainable Development until 2030 'Sustainable Estonia 21': Viability of the Estonian Cultural Space, Growth of Welfare, Coherent Society, Ecological Balance; and the Nordic Strategy for Sustainable Development.
Find out more about successful applications in Estonia in 2014.