Talent Flows Steadily Home, Little by Little
The active phase of the Bring Talent Home program has almost reached the halfway mark. Although hordes of the gifted are not pouring back to the Old Country, the project's fine-tuned approach has brought back a number of recent graduates.
The leaders had set the goal of bringing 25 Estonians back to Estonia, nine of them have come back, all of them recent graduates of universities in other European countries, Eesti Päevaleht reported.
"That's a little less than half, but we think that it is a good result in all respects," said project coordinator Eva Maran.
"What is clear is that we will not start bringing back hundreds of the talents we write to in the course of just one project," she said. "That would be wonderful, but not realistic."
Bring Talent Home is a 120,000-euro project that puts Estonians who have wandered abroad in touch with local employers, to bring expats back to Estonia.
Kristopher Rikken