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Tallinn celebrates the arrival of Chinese New Year on Friday, February 12 at Vabaduse Square and Tallinn Song Festival Grounds. New Year's celebrations include dance, drum and light performances, fire sculptures, demonstrations of oriental martial arts, and the traditional fireworks display. Spectators are welcome to Vabaduse Square from 1 pm, the program at the Song Festival Grounds starts at 4 pm.

The idea-gathering of the first participatory budget in Tallinn was very successful, more than 5 percent of the citizens with the right to vote participated in the referendum to choose between the ideas proposed by Tallinners.

As of 1 February 2021, sales and service venues of catering businesses may be open for on-site customer service from 06.00-21.00. It must be taken into consideration that up to six people are allowed to be in a group and move together, keeping at least two metres between themselves and other customers (families are exempt from this). Selling food to go is allowed outside this time frame.

A challenging year 2020 has put Estonians and Latvians invented – more than 500 ideas were submitted to Prototron. On 29th of January 2021, the winners of the Autumn 2020 round were announced – a record 120,000 euros were shared between 8 teams. So far Prototron has helped 86 technological solutions bought to market and invested more than one million euros in the implementation of smart ideas.

In the first-ever referendum on the participatory budget in Tallinn, almost 20,000 city dwellers cast their votes for their favourite ideas. 18,543 citizens cast their votes electronically, but the exact number of those who voted on paper will become clear after counting the votes today. The results of Tallinn participatory budget will be announced at the City Government press conference at noon on Wednesday, February 3.

Tallinn is aspiring to become the City of Music of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network this year. Currently, 47 cities from all over the world belong to the network of Music Cities, 19 of them from Europe.

According to a satisfaction survey conducted among city residents at the end of last year, Tallinn is a family-friendly city with a creative atmosphere, where people of different nationalities are treated well and the local people here are considered caring and trustworthy. However, the corona crisis has affected the daily livelihoods of the townspeople.

In Tallinn, parents can order a house call by a medical brigade on weekends to treat a child aged 0-8 with acute symptoms. For example, a home doctor’s crew can be called if a parent has not been able to visit the G.P. with an ill child or the child has fallen ill during the weekend.

The city of Tallinn will be represented for the first time in the Estonian Pavilion at the EXPO 2020 world exhibition, which due to the pandemic is being delayed and will open its doors to visitors in October of this year.