Norway, Finland, Britain and Sweden have concluded a new agreement on foreign aid for integration projects in Estonia, toward which the four Western partners together will pay 17.2 million kroons ($1 million).
Estonian Foreign Minister Kristiina Ojuland and the countries' ambassadors signed the agreement in Tallinn on March 27.
The Estonian government's contribution to the project, aimed at promoting multiculturalism, will be an additional 16.2 million kroons. The project will last three years.
A major part of the new effort is aimed at young people, the chief of Estonia's Integration Foundation, Mart Luik, said.
Funds will go toward the teaching of Estonian to Russian-speakers, including language immersion at preschool and elementary school level, as well as increased contacts between Estonian- and Russian-speaking young people in everyday life, in NGOs and between schools.
It will also seek to strengthen Russian-speakers' language-related and professional competitiveness in the labor market and in vocational schools, involve more non-ethnic Estonians in the public media, and increase the knowledge and motivation of Russian-speakers in application for citizenship.
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