{"id":380242,"date":"2022-06-14T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationorigins.com\/?p=380242"},"modified":"2022-06-14T06:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T04:30:00","slug":"estonian-recovery-plan-fully-commits-to-green-and-digital-transition-of-smes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/en\/estonian-recovery-plan-fully-commits-to-green-and-digital-transition-of-smes\/","title":{"rendered":"Estonian recovery plan fully commits to green and digital transition of SMEs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Read more about the countries in this project<\/span><\/a><\/div>
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A crisis like the corona pandemic calls for decisive measures. The EU has freed up \u20ac723.8 billion <\/a>in an effort to use the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) to pull the European economy out of the recession caused by corona. In order to qualify for a share of this large bag of money, member states must submit a plan to the European Commission. In the series Decarbonizing Europe, we put those plans under a magnifying glass.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

They are about the same size in terms of surface area, the average man is about the same height, the landscape is roughly just as flat and in terms of digitalization, both countries are highly advanced: Estonia and the Netherlands have quite a few similarities. However, Estonia, with 1.3 million inhabitants (half of the country is covered by forest) is a much smaller player in the European Union. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Estonian recovery plan is not, in budgetary terms, of any great magnitude. The country was allocated 936.3 million euros from the European Commission, 42 percent of which will be spent on the green transition. A total of 22 percent is reserved for the digital transition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n