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Additional 2026 application round for international conference support grants
The City of Tallinn is opening an additional application round for international conference support grants, with a total budget of €40,000. The additional funding has been allocated from the city's 2026 supplementary budget.
The application round opens on 23 November 2026 at 9:00, and applications can be submitted until 7 December 2026.
The maximum grant per conference is €35,000. Under the current procedure for awarding grants, if the available budget is insufficient, priority will be given to applicants whose conferences take place earlier.
Applications must be submitted via the Tallinn online self-service platform for project and activity grants.
The deadlines for the 2027 application rounds will be announced separately on the City of Tallinn website and in a national daily newspaper.
Find out more about Tallinn’s conference grant.
When can an application be submitted?
Applications for Tallinn’s conference grant can be submitted on a rolling basis throughout the year until the grant budget is exhausted. The closing dates for the rounds are announced by the Tallinn Strategy Centre and published in a national daily newspaper and on the Tallinn website.
The application must be submitted by the announced date, but at least 30 calendar days before the start of the conference. Applications submitted later will be rejected without reviewing. The conference must take place in Tallinn within 18 months of the date of application.
How to submit an application?
Please note that foreign organisers who wish to apply must have a local representative or partner who is able to log into the system with Estonian ID. The event organiser’s representative must fill and submit the formal application in Estonian.
Before filling out your application, we advise you consider the following aspects:
- A brief summary of the project
- Justification for the project’s necessity
- The objective of the project (reflecting the desired, measurable outcome of the project)
- Activities carried out to run the project
- Cooperation partners
- Risk analysis (descriptions of the possible risks and methods of mitigation)
- The budget of the project (type and description of expenses, amounts for every expense line and a clarification of whether and to what extent the grant would be used to cover the expenses)
- Allocation of expenses and sources for covering them (subsidies, own contribution, other means of financing)
Annexes:
- The conference program outline (including the conference date, general schedule with associated events and venues), along with the conference organizer's name, phone number, email address, and information regarding membership in a professional association or international organization.
- A free-form summary of how the conference fulfils the objectives and conditions set out in §3 of the Regulation.
- A free-form action plan for the promotion of the destination.
- A free-form summary of how sustainable and environmentally friendly solutions will be implemented at the conference. Take a look at the guide for conducting environmentally friendly events in Tallinn.
The application for the conference grant can be submitted using the online self-service platform. It is also the main tool used for informing applicants about the decision of their application, signing contracts, sending notifications about changes in or cancellation of events and submitting interim reports, final reports as well as cost statements of the used grant.
After logging into the website, choose “International conferences” from the list of project and activity grants.