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The average salary of Estonian teachers increased by more than 420 euros last year and reached 120% of the Estonian average, meeting the target set in the education development plan. However, due to the rapid growth of the average salary, this level of growth rate will be difficult to maintain, according to the Foresight Centre’s report ‘Teachers’ Salaries’.

Since the beginning of the full-scale war in Ukraine, the import of goods and services from Russia and Belarus has decreased nearly tenfold, while exports have increased, according to the recent short report by the Foresight Centre.

According to Foresight Centre’s short report ‘Community Schools in Estonia’, transforming local schools and kindergartens into modern community houses would help to revitalise public services in danger of closure. For example, remote work offices, family doctor and youth centres, as well as various sports and hobby groups could be located there. However, although this model offers the greatest benefits to peripheral regions, the municipalities of Harju County are currently more active in creating such multifunctional houses.

Short-term energy storage would help solar panel owners to increase the profitability of their electricity production, which would also help keep the Estonian power system in balance, according to an analysis commissioned by the Foresight Centre.

The Foresight Centre created a map application of the Estonian school network, where you can see where Estonian schools are located and where children live. The application also shows the main indicators of general education schools for the last five years and a simulation of the schools’ futures based on today’s birth rates.

The increase in electricity microgeneration and the number of active consumers or prosumers in the power grid requires further development of the distribution network. This demands higher expenditures that the current network charges do not cover, which was the message at Foresight Centre’s Energy Conference ‘How will the role of consumers in the electricity system change?’.

The Foresight Centre’s report ‘Active Consumers in the Future Energy System’ to be published this week states that although interest in electricity production has waned among the residents of Estonia compared to the peak of the energy crisis, the number of micro-producers in the Estonian energy system will grow up to four times by 2040. However, the increase of electricity-producing consumption does not jeopardise the balance and stability of the energy system.