About REGIBy the end of year 2014 more than 48 000 Estonian citizens were living permanently in Finland. Adding unregistered and weekly work-migrants, the number of Estonians living in Finland might rise to 100 000. This is almost as much as in Estonia’s second largest town Tartu. This would make Finland Estonians fourth largest county behind Harjumaa, Ida-Virumaa and Tartumaa.
Mostly Estonians move to Finland for work-related reasons. This tendency grew eminently after Estonia joined the European Union in 2004, which enabled free movement of work force. Rapid changes have caused difficult challenges for people and social systems both in Finland and in Estonia. One or both parents of the family moving to another country is a major change. In order to cope and adapt with a change of this scale, one needs an effective support network. Our experience from the past 5-10 years has shown, that people lack proper support in both of the countries. |
Who we are |
REGI-project is financed by the European Regional Development Fund through the Interreg Central Baltic Programme 2014-2020. Project partners are Turku University of Applied Sciences, Tallinn University Rakvere College, South-East Finland Estonia-centre and Baltic Region Healthy Cities Association.
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