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Estonia is proud to be part of the EUREKA network – the world’s largest public platform supporting international innovation collaboration. This year marks a significant milestone as Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania will jointly co-organize the Baltic session at the Global Innovation Summit 2025 (GIS), taking place on 2nd of April in Germany, as part of Hannover Messe. The joint effort highlights the growing strength of the Baltic innovation ecosystem and the region’s ambition to foster deeper international collaboration. GIS is one of the most important annual events within the EUREKA framework, co-hosted by the current chairs Germany and Canada in

The winners of Estonia’s largest business competition, ‘Best Estonian Companies 2023’, were announced today by the Estonian Employers’ Confederation, Estonian Chamber of Commerce & Industry and Estonian Business and Innovation Agency. The nominees will battle for the Company of the Year title on November 4 at the gala, which will also be broadcasted on ETV. Estonian Business and Innovation Agency together with The Estonian Employers’ Confederation selected the best in six categories and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in three categories. “Now the two separate competitions will become one, and the company of the year will be announced from

From 15 April, new terms and conditions of KredEx loan surety for companies will enter into force, according to which the loan surety limit will increase fivefold to 25 (twenty-five) million euros. “Entrepreneurs’ business growth projects can often struggle to secure bank financing because their collateral is insufficient or their value is difficult to assess,” explained Kaarel Aus, Head of the Guarantees and Loans Department of the Joint Agency of EAS and KredEx. “Until now, KredEx could grant surety to entrepreneurs up to a limit of five million euros. By raising the limit of loan surety, we will be able to support

The International Trade Council (ITC) event “Go Global Awards” culminated with gala evening in Tallinn. Business world’s Oscars conference and gala brought together hundreds of senior executives from the world’s most innovative manufacturers, re-manufacturers and exporters, along with representatives from government bodies, trade associations, venture capital firms and financial institutions. „This is the first time this international event, with more than 30 years of history, took place in a nordic country, and it is no coincidence that it was Estonia,“ said Solomon Addai, ITC Senior Board Member .„First, Estonia as Estonian Business and Innovation Agency won the best Trade Promotion

The Global Economic Impact Forum on Ukraine was held in Istanbul, Türkiye on the 21st and 22nd July 2022, focused on bringing together high-level political, public sector, and business leaders from Fortune 500 companies from across the globe to look at rebuilding Ukraine, discuss investment and trade opportunities, address the challenges to regional and global supply chains, and work to ensure economic continuity for Ukraine and its trade partners through new cooperation channels and agreements. In attendance and speaking on behalf of the Ukrainian government were the Hon. Dmytro Natalukha, Chairman of the Economic Affairs Parliamentary Committee, Member of Parliament

Enterprise Estonia takes 13 Estonian companies with a joint stand to one of the biggest trade fairs for the defense industry – Eurosatory 2022 taking place in Paris from June 13th til June 17th.   Eurosatory is one of the largest defense industry trade fairs in Europe, held on every second year. Last time the fair was physically held in 2018 and it was attended by over 1,800 exhibitors and more than 57,000 visitors. Enterprise Estonia will go to the Eurosatory fair with a joint stand of companies for the fifth time, since 2014. According to Rene Ehasalu, the cluster