... for your trips to India:
		Minister Mrs. Edelgard Bulmahn of the Federal Ministry of Education & Research went to India in Oct. 2004.  The Ministry supports and accompanies several technologies and programmes.
		The INDO GERMAN Chamber of Commerce of the German-Indian Chamber of Commerce is the trade gateway between India and Germany having own subsidiaries in: Bombay, New Delhi, Chennai, Kolkuta, Bangalore and Dusseldorf as well as representations in Ber-lin and Hyderabad. IGCC establ-ishes general market information for enterprises, finds the right cooperation partner, resolves legal questions, arbitrates, gives advice for contracts and assists incorporation of enterprises.
		The German Investment- and Development Co. Ltd. (DEG) is the federal financing- and con-sulting company to support in-vestments of private enterprises in developing and reforming countries.
		The Trust for Economical De-velopment and Vocational Qualifcation, SEQUA, is a mutual establishment of the German Industrial and Commerce Chamber (DIHK), of the Central Ass. of the German Trade (ZDH) and of the Ass. of the German Federation of Employers (BDA). Sequa jells as the partner of Economy in the in-ternational cooperation and supports SMEs.
		The Consortium of Industrial Research Pools "Otto von Guericke" e.V. (AiF) supports re-search & development connecting SMEs with an innovation network for econmy, science and state with practice-oriented consulting. AiF lobbies for the effectiveness of small business as bearer of the industrial research community and other support programmes of the federation and the counties.
		BVMW, Federal Ass. of Small Business, understands its efforts as the Voice of SMEs. One of the major tasks of BVMW is to en-hance and support the export activities of its memebers.
		Ministry for Economy and Work of the County NRW. Enterprises in NRW will hold their ground in the global competition only when using most modern technologies in production and products, excellent services and high flexibility - thus, knowledge must be used more intelligently and economically. The Economical Politics in NRW support this chan-ge to a knowledge society deli-berately giving the general frame-work to assist the development of the individual abilities in these areas.
		The platform NRW-auto exists since the beginning of 2004 and is controlled and managed by enter-prises in NRW. This own initiative of the enterprises stands under the patronage of the Ministry for Economy and Work of NRW sup-  porting tghe companies by Public Relations or by co-financing of projects.
		The Rhein-County Neuss with its Economical Development Co. has been the No. 1 in NRW con-secutively in the past 10 years. International thinking, acting and working have been the driving factors for success. World re-nowned enterprises have their German and European head-quarters in Neuss.  Rhine-County-Neuss with 450,000 inhabitants counts among the lar-gest counties in Germany. There are > 8 million people living in a radius of 25 km in this economical focal point of Europe .
		IGIT - a phantastic case! The Indo German Institute of  Technologies was founded and inaugurated in Bangalore on 03.03.2003 in cooperation with German and Indian Joint Venture partners after 4 years of prepar-ation in close cooperation with the Visveswaraiah Technological University.