European Culture Collections' Organization [ ECCO | European Culture Collections Curators' Organization ]

European Cultural Month

European cultural event [ European city of culture | European Year ]

EU sponsorship [ Community sponsorship | EC participation in a cultural event | EC participation in a sporting event | European Union sponsorship ]

cultural prize [ cultural competition | European prize | literary prize | literature prize | prize for literature | Award(STW) ]

We are all interested in seeing an intelligent driving culture spread throughout the entire European Union, in seeing the disappearance of the feeling of impunity: ‘in a foreign country I will drive and park as I usually do, no one will find me any way’.

Holiday-makers' interest in cultural and historic city centres, as well as in natural attractions, is very high. Historic centres in towns are visited by at least six Europeans out of ten. Half of them visit nature parks and reserves, as well as museums, exhibitions and archeological sites.

* * * As far as economic cooperation is concerned, European Union assistance is aimed at : . promoting industrial competitiveness and market penetration in sectors where mutual interests of European Union and Indian businesses complement each other; . improving horizontal aspects such as standards through a national accreditation scheme, technology informations through the setting up of a technology information centre, and sustainable institution- building which are linked with the above sectors or which are perceived to provide future potential for cooperation and trade; . business to business cooperation and joint ventures of the Eur ...[+++]opean India and Indian private sector through the European Union-India Business Forum and ECIP; . reinforcing liberalisation efforts such as in maritime transport, facilitating access to business information and a better understanding on the implications and opportunities of the unified European Market; . reinforcing energy efficiency and related technology transfer through the EC-India Energy Management Centre; . strengthening the value of tourism as an employment opportunity in the form of eco-tourism, including game park and cultural tourism; . assisting specific industrial sectors of interest such as automotive components and upgrading of automotive, electrical appliances and food processing laboratories; . protecting the environmental from industrial pollution; . reinforcing mutual understanding of respective economic, social and cultural environment as a basis for effective cooperation, through linkages of training and higher education institutions, visits of journalists and cultural performances, films, etc.