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The museum is built to raise awareness about the correct use of plastic and will be 100 per cent recycled by the end of the 10 day exhibition

DelaVegaCanolasso, a Spanish design company, created a museum in Madrid made entirely of recycled plastic. The project’s goal is to get people thinking about plastics and how important it is to use them appropriately.

The Estonian capital, Tallinn, will bear the title of a UNESCO City of Music from 2022

The director-general of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay, on 8 November announced 49 new cities that were designated as members of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network. Among them is Tallinn, which will bear the title of a UNESCO City of Music from 2022.

Worldwide royalty collections for creators of music, audiovisual, art, drama and literary works fell by 9.9% in 2020, with losses amounting to more than €1 billion as a result of the global pandemic.

The annual robotics festival Robotex International is due to take place in Tallinn from 5-7 November; in addition to autonomous machines, a renowned humanoid robot called Sophia will “make an appearance” at the festival.

The festival will host competitions and robotics workshops and sheds light on autonomous machines and electromobility. It will also showcase locomotives developed and produced in Estonia and abroad.

In 2010, Australian singer/songwriter Charlton Hill and music technologist Justin Shave joined ranks to set up Uncanny Valley, a Sydney-based progressive technology company at the cutting-edge of the music industry. Charlton Hill, who is also head of innovation at Uncanny Valley, discusses the company’s ambitions to speed up, democratize and re-shape music production through the use of artificial intelligence (AI).

Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) announces the line-up for Rebels With A Cause, an international competition programme screening 14 feature films, alongside a short films competition that includes 13 entries this year, split across two programmes.

Poland, Slovakia, France and the Czech Republic have joined forces to produce 'Even Mice Belong in Heaven'.

The movie for young and old alike follows the story of a mouse and a fox who find themselves in heaven. The two companions will unite their strength and overcome their differences to find their fathers, both also beyond the pearly gates.

Euronews met with French and Czech co-producers Alexandre Charlet and Vladimír Lhoták who were in Lyon for the national release of the film.

Following spectacular growth over the past decade, which accelerated during the COVID‑19 pandemic, e‑commerce is now becoming a key platform for consumers in developed countries to buy counterfeit goods. In some countries, seizures of counterfeits from e‑commerce purchases represent the vast majority of all counterfeit seizures. COVID-19 has intensified the problem with criminal networks reacting very quickly to the crisis and adapting their strategies to take advantage of the shifting landscape.