India and Germany
- PM visited Germany and many agreements were inked in april 2013 :
- Promotion of German as a foreign language in India.
- Cooperation in the field of Higher Education
- In the area of Civil Security Research :
- 5 pilot projects in 2013 with the identified priorities being natural disaster management, biological risk situations, urban security, protection & rescue of people and social aspects of civil security research.
- Aims at strengthening cooperation in: i) plant variety protection, ii) conservation of plant genetic resources. iii) cooperation between Indian and German agricultural research institutions and seed companies.
- Establishment of an Indo-German Working Group on Quality Infrastructure for Cooperation in Standardization, Conformity Assessment and Product Safety.
- Aims at fostering increased use of renewable energy in India through technical and fanatical cooperation by way of integrating additional renewable energy generation capacity with the national grid. The Technical cooperation would be implemented through the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) and KfW intends to provide concessional loans of up to Euro one billion over the next six years.
