Teeme Ära 2009, from cleaning up to brainstorming

In May 2008, more than 50,000 volunteers gave up their home comfort to put their hands in the dirt and clean up the Estonian countryside from the illegal waste piled up all over the country.

The 2008 operation was a great success with more than 10,000 tons of waste collected in 5 hours and the development of a piece of software designed to localise several thousands of dumping sites. International media welcomed and congratulated the project, which indeed highly deserved it.

A new formula was however imagined for 2009.

This year’s project is more intellectual: a national brainstorming “designed to provide a space and time for people to gather around issues that matter to them”. The topics are pretty wide (city life, family, health and sport, culture…) and do not only focus anymore on environmental issues.

If you are interested to join one of these brainstorming chambers, subscribe here.