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Nearly 56,000 people work through digital platforms every week in Estonia, shows the Foresight Centre study “Platform Work in Estonia in 2021”, which was published on Wednesday, 2 June. During the last year, more than 160,000 people have done platform work at least once.

Tomorrow, 25 May, the Foresight Centre is publishing its report “Future of Mobility. Development Trends up to 2035”, which explores the mobility of the Estonian population, and the consequent challenges on the transport system.

The COVID-19 crisis has sped up the transformation of traditional ways of working and stratification of labour market, which lowers the social protection of workers. The future of social protection was discussed at the Foresight Centre webinar “Are Individual Savings Accounts the Future of Social Protection?” held on 22 April.

The coronavirus crisis has put the traditional forecasting models into question and increased the need for scenarios, says the Yearbook of Foresight Centre. On the basis of studies, the publication maps the development trends relating to the crisis and Estonia’s possible exit strategies from the corona crisis.

The corona pandemic has accelerated changes in the economic structure, says the Yearbook of the Foresight Centre, published next Monday. Many labour-intensive economic sectors are in trouble and social inequalities have deepened, having taken on new forms.

The boosting platformisation of the economy is an effective tool for the ever-increasing division of the world into the US and Chinese spheres of influence, says the Yearbook of Foresight Centre, which will be published in March. The option for the European Union is to strive to become a regulative superpower in the platform economy with the support of its large internal market.

In 2021, the Foresight Centre will study the future opportunities of the Estonian tax system, and the issues relating to long-term care, changes in higher education and mobility of the population. Altogether, the Centre will deal with the possible development trends and scenarios in four fields this year.

According to the report of the Foresight Centre “The Impact of the Virus Crisis on the Estonian Economy. Scenarios up to 2030,” the virus crisis provides a unique opportunity for renewing the structure of the Estonian economy. In the economy, the crisis will accelerate the trend to automatise and digitise the processes and carry out the plans for innovation urgently.

Focus on ensuring self-sufficiency during the corona pandemic demonstrates the importance of local energy carriers for Estonia in the future, says the Foresight Centre report “The Impact of the Virus Crisis on the Estonian Economy. Scenarios up to 2030”, soon to be published. The green fuels era in a more distant future could turn out to favour Estonia much more than the fossil fuels era.

According to the report “The Future of Health Care in Estonia. Scenarios up to 2035” published by the Foresight Centre and presented today, Estonia has the largest unmet demand for medical care in Europe, and if the current health insurance system continues, the availability of health care services will decrease.