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Frankfurt/Main - skyline at night
To kick off Ambiente – the leading international trade fair for Giving and Living – in Frankfurt am Main, the traditional ceremony honouring the winners of the Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany is being held in February. The award-winning product ideas will be on show in the Galleria at the Exhibition Centre throughout the fair (from 12 to 16 February).
Design Award
“The birthday cake of nearly 400 films has been baked,” announces festival director Dieter Kosslick. The 60th Berlin International Film Festival begins on 11 February. The flurry of flashbulbs, the red carpet, the film stars: the Berlinale promises ten days of great cinema in the German capital. The 60th birthday of the festival, which first saw the light of the film world in 1951, is also being celebrated by Hollywood greats like director Martin Scorsese, who is presenting his new film Shutter Island with the two actors Leonardo de Caprio and Ben Kingsley.
Berlinale
Visit of Elke Hoff to Pakistan
Mrs. Elke Hoff (2 L), member of German Parliament's Defence Committee and Sub Committee on Disarmament, Arms Control and Non Proliferation, paid a visit to Pakistan from 10 to 14 January 2010. The picture shows her meeting in Rawalpindi on 11 January 2010 with Pakistan's Army Chief General Ashfaq Kayani (R).
The Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani, paid a three day working visit to the Federal Republic of Germany (30 November - 2nd December 2009)
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During Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's visit to Germany from 30 November to 02 December 2009, Pakistan and Germany have signed a new "Agreement on the Encouragement and Reciprocal Protection of Investments".
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The future of energy: this is the motto of the Year of Science 2010, which begins on 22 January and is organized by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research together with the Science Initiative. The aim of the years of science, which were launched in 2000, is to stimulate greater public interest in questions surrounding science and arouse especially the young generation’s curiosity for scientific topics by collaborating with universities and research institutions.
The Year of Science 2010
With its clear lines, brightness and transparency, the architecture of the new Museum Folkwang in Essen adds a brilliant highlight to the museum landscape of the Ruhr District at the beginning of the European Capital of Culture Ruhr 2010. In just two years British star architect David Chipperfield designed a new home for the internationally renowned art collection of one of the most important German museums, which is opening to visitors for the first time this weekend (30/31 January).
Folkwang Museum
German Water Partnership - Solutions to Global Challenges - Made in Germany
The German Water Partnership is a joint initiative of the German private and public sectors, combining commercial enterprises, government and non-government organisations, scientific institutions and water-related associations. The network is supported by five federal ministries. Its head office in Berlin collects and coordinates information about innovations, activities and services of its members. The fundamental aim of the German Water Partnership is to make the outstanding German engineering, know-how and experience in the water sector easily available to partners and clients all over the world.
Smoking chimneys and mines, coal and steel: for many decades these were the symbols of the Ruhr, Germany’s largest industrial belt. With 53 cities and around 5.3 million inhabitants, the third largest conurbation in Europe will be showing its new face as European Capital of Culture in 2010.
RUHR.2010. European Capital of Culture
