COC Academy 2.0
The COC academy spreads its wing and fly from Austria to Estonia. Next year COC Academy will take place in Estonia.
JCI Estonia is proud to host the best COC academy ever in JCI history 
Together with the Austrian COC Academy mentorship we all want to serve this organization and to grow up our most important people, you, the members of JCI!
Where is Estonia?
Geographically, Estonia is on the north-eastern edge of the European Union, bordering Russia and Latvia, Finland is a short hop across the sea – just 80km away. Tallinn is our medieval capital and by far the biggest city, with a population of around 400,000. Roads are traffic jam free.
Estonia is in the Schengen Area so we have open borders with the rest of Europe. Brits, Americans, Canadians and Australians can also enter Estonia visa-free. Lennart Meri Tallinn Airport, named after our late President, has direct flights all over Europe.
Estonia has a population of just 1.3 million but is larger than Denmark or Holland.
The Estonian language is a nightmare to learn. Everyone in tourism speaks good English and often German, Finnish, Russian and Swedish too!
Great food is everywhere and you can even eat marinated bear here! In winter it gets very cold and we get plenty of beautiful snow. There is a spring at April and snow is almost melted.
Estonia is about 50% forest. The largest forests can be found in the North East and Central Estonia. They stretch from the north coast to the Latvian border. About 10 per cent of Estonia is a nature reserve.
Estonia is situated on a border area where the coniferous Euro-Siberian taiga opens onto a European zone of deciduous forests. There are 87 native and more than 500 introduced tree and bush species recorded.
About 75% of all plant species in Estonia are found on the west coast because the climate is more moderate there. Rich Estonian forests are the home to many animals – seeing a hare, fox or deer is a common thing and if you’re lucky, you may meet a wolf, lynx, bear or elk. They are also home to several animal species close to extinction such as the European mink, dormouse and flying squirrel. The European beaver, once hunted to extinction in Estonia, was successfully reintroduced in the 1950s.
The forest has always been important place for Estonian people – it was believed to be a sacred place in Estonia’s primeval religion and people worshiped the wood-spirits, because the forest was their essential source for food and building materials.