Operational Programme for Human Resource Development
Priority 1.1 Lifelong learning
- Development of qualifications system
- Development of quality of youth work
- Development of information and counseling system
- Development of language learning
- Enhancing and ensuring of quality of VET
- Development of adult education
- Reducing school drop-out, increasing access to education
Priority 1.2 Development of human resource for RTD
- Development of research policy and quality of higher education
- Promoting PhD study and internationalization
- Developing priority thematic fields of R&D and innovation and educational sciences
- Open call for cooperation and innovation between higher education establishments
- Adaptation to knowledge-based economy
Priority 1.3 Good-quality and long working life
- Increasing availability of qualified labour force
- Improving the quality of working life
- Welfare measures supporting inclusion to the labour market
- Health awareness
- Promotion of gender equality
Priority 1.4 Knowledge and skills for innovative entrepreneurship
- Programme for start-up and micro loans
- Start-up and development grant
- Enterprise and innovation awareness programme
- Tourism awareness and training programme
- Development of knowledge and skills grant
- Development of knowledge and skills programme
- Aid for the involvement of highly qualified personnel
- Programme for development of enterprise and innovation knowledge, skills and awareness
Priority 1.5 Administrative capacity
- Enhancement of strategic management of the public sector and NGOs
- Better regulation
- Training and development of employees of the State, local authorities and NGOs
- Supporting county-level support structures
Priority 1.6 Horisontal technical assistance
- Horisontal technical assistance
Priority 1.7 Technical assistance
- Technical assistance
Operational Programme for the Development of the Living Environment
Priority 1.1 Development of water and waste management infrastructure
- Development of water supply systems
- Operations directed to achieving a good ecological status of water bodies
- Clean-up of past contamination in former military and industrial sites
- Closure and remediation of inadequate waste dumps of oil shale industry and oil shale based power industry
- Closure of waste dumps of oil shale based power industry (ash fields) and modernization of ash removal system
- Closure of inadequate non-hazardous waste landfills
- Construction of new landfills
- Enlargement of regional waste management centers with land filling area
- Reduction of waste generation and development of waste collection, sorting and recovery
Priority 2.2 Development of infrastructure and support systems for sustainable use of the environment
- Establishment and maintenance of nature conservation infrastructure in protected areas, state investments
- Establishment and maintenance of nature conservation infrastructure in protected areas, block grant for NGOs
- Preparation and implementation of management plans for protected areas and action plans of threatened species
- Development of environmental education infrastructure
- Development of environmental monitoring
- Development of environmental supervision
- Improvement of preparedness for environmental emergencies
Priority 2.3 Development of energy sector
- Broader use of renewable energy sources and protection of ambient air
- Improvement of district heating and electricity and heat generation using renewable energy sources
- Promotion of energy conservation in housing
- Grant for apartment buildings for energy audit
- Loan for reconstruction of apartment buildings
- Support of awareness raising of energy saving among residents of apartment buildings
Priority 2.4 Integral and balanced development of regions
- Development of local public services
- Development of urban regions
- Strengthening of the competitiveness of regions
- Development of state cultural and tourism Objects
- Development of Regional Competence Centres
- Improving the quality of Internet access
Priority 2.5 Development of education infrastructure
- Modernization of open youth centers, information and counseling centers and hobby schools
- Modernization of the study environment of vocational schools
- Improvement of the quality of the study environment of schools intended for students with special educational needs (SEN) through developing the relevant infrastructure
Priority 2.6 Development of health and welfare infrastructure
- Reorganization of state welfare institutions
- Reorganization of child welfare institutions
- Reorganization of special welfare institutions
- Development of health infrastructure
- Optimization of the infrastructure of central and regional hospitals
- Development of the infrastructure for nursing care services
Priority 2.7 Horisontal technical assistance
- Horisontal technical assistance
Priority 2.8 Technical assistance
- Technical assistance
Operational Programme for the Development of Economic Environment
Priority 3.1 Innovation and growth capacities of enterprises
- Promoting Estonia as a travel destination
- Support to joint marketing
- Support for participation in foreign fairs
- Technology investment support to industrial producer
- Tourism product development support
- Tourism product development support to minor projects
- Development of clusters
- Programme of business incubation
- Innovation units
- Support to tourism information distribution channels
- Supplementary support programme to improve loan capital availability for enterprises
- Tourism information systems development programme
- Support to testing and semi-industrial testing facilities
- Support to creative industries development
- Export credit insurance programme
- Support to international events and conferences
- Organisation of national marketing events
- National business loan guarantees and capital loan programme
- Support to export marketing
- Tourism marketing support for businesses
- Support to tourism marketing activities of public and third sector
- Support to R&D projects
- Support to knowledge and technology transfer baseline funding
- Support to technology development centres
Priority 3.2: Improving the competitiveness of Estonian R&D through the research programmes and modernisation of higher education and R&D institutions
- Supporting the centres of excellence
- Modernising the general infrastructure of R&D institutions and the educational environment of institutions of professional higher education and uuniversities
- Modernising research apparatus and equipment
- Modernising small-scale research infrastructure
- Modernising research apparatus and equipment of R&D institutions
- Programme of electronic research information “E-publications”
- Modernising of research infrastructure of national priority
- Modernising of study infrastructure of applied higher education and educational science
- Supporting the development of R&D of energy technology
- Supporting the development of R&D of info and communication technology
- Supporting the development of R&D of biotechnology
- Supporting the development of R&D of health
- Supporting the development of R&D of environmental protection and technology
- Supporting the development of R&D of materials technology
- Programme “Supporting international cooperation in R&D
Priority 3.3 Transport investments of strategic importance
- Transport investment plan
Priority 3.4 Development of regional transport infrastructure
- Development of transport infrastructure
Priority 3.5 Promotion of information society
- Awareness rising programme of information society
- Development of information society, open calls
- Development of information society, investment plans
Priority 3.6 Horisontal technical assistance
- Horisontal technical assistance
Priority 3.7 Technical assistance
- Technical assistance
