From the National curriculum for basic schools in Estonia:

A basic school has a role to play in both learning and education. The school shall contribute to growing youth into a creative, diverse personality who are able to self-actualize in full-fledged manner in different roles: in the family, at work and in public life.

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Basic school helps pupils reach clarity on their interests, proclivities and abilities and ensures readiness for continuing studies at the next educational level and for lifelong learning. Youths who graduate from basic school have an understanding of their future roles in family, working life, society and the state.

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The cross-curricular topics are a means of integrating general and subject field competences, subjects and subject fields and are taken into account in developing the school environment.
 1) lifelong learning and career planning – the aim is for the pupil to develop into a person who is prepared to learn lifelong, perform different roles in a changing educational, living and work environments and shape his or her life through conscious decisions, including making of reasonable career choices;