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 30 May-8 June: Co-President, Dr Anand and SG, Michel Sabatier toured Europe: Paris, Brussels, Leuven, Eindhoven, Madrid, Valencia, London to canvass for support to the Summit and ESCA.
July-August: Co-President, Dr Anand, and Secretary (India), Girish Bhagat, have extensively canvassed across 17 Indian States
and called for their participation with their cities in the EuroIndia Summit and Mission, with the local support of Partner
CII representatives:Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chandigarh, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala,
Pudducheri, Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, resulting into an impressive list of confirmed delegates. [click here]
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10-11 August 2011: An International Conference on "Planning and Delivering Urban Infrastructure in Indian Cities" was organized by RICS in Delhi, with the support of the Centre. Secretary (India), Girish Bhagat, spoke on "An integrated urban approach for Indian cities: the roadmap for PPP and private investments". RICS in turn has offered to support the EuroIndia Summit.
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The first meeting of the newly formed Consultative Strategic Advisory Committee meeting is now slated to be held in Mumbai in the
first fortnight of November, when Co-President Colette Mathur will join Co-President Dr Harjit S. Anand in India and call upon
our India-based members and supporters to help chart our post-Summit strategy.
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 A French think tank, Fabrique de la Cité (the City Fabric) has joined the Centre as Partner Member.
[Click here]
Member Dominique Turcq wrote a seminal article on the development of Indian tourism at : [click here]
Former AhmedabadCity Commissioner, Mr. IP Gautam, has been promoted to Secretary Urban Development of Govt. of
Gujarat and new City Commissioner, Mr. Gurumahapatra, has taken over. Welcome to the latter and good luck to the former!
Ahmedabad University has initiated a 'Centre for Heritage Management' offering several short and long term programmes
including a masters programme in 'Heritage Management', for the first time in India.They have already signed an MOU with the University of Member City Valladolid last June. They have appointed Member Debashish Nayak as Director. He spent last few months in Europe in several Universities to study their programmes, including RILCC of Member City Leuven University. This happy development started when the EuroIndia Centre brokered a partnership between Ahmedabad and Valladolid on heritage conservation at the 2nd EuroIndia Forum in 2008 at Goa.
Board member, Emmanuel Chastang, has been appointed Regional Representative of the Centre for the Languedoc-Roussillon
and the Provence-Côte d'Azur regions of France
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The DG Energy of the European Commission has extended its official support to the ESCA and made an annoucement with all 2867 European Mayors and regional authorities having signed the Covenant of Mayors, whereby they voluntarily commit to increasing energy efficiency and use of renewable energy sources on their territories and aim to meet and exceed the European Union 20% CO2 reduction objective by 2020.
