The city of Graz
With its 250,000 inhabitants, Graz is Austria's second largest city. Due to its location in the south-east of the country, it is ideally suited to take on a role which it has played increasingly in recent years: Graz as a crossroads and pivot of cultural and economic exchange at all levels.
Graz constantly seeks to strengthen its position as an intercultural forum, which is one reason why both the Municipal Council and the Province of Styria strongly support and generously subsidize the European Centre for Modern Languages.
The fact that the City of Graz, as a signatory to a European declaration, has pledged itself to regional cooperation is a further indication of Graz's commitment to its role of mediator between regions.
A city with a long academic tradition, Graz is home to three universities, with more than 43,000 students. As a result, Graz can boast an excellent and extensive infrastructure of conference facilities, which are much in demand for international congresses and symposia.
In addition to the traditional role Graz plays as a crossroads for cultural and economic events, even its climate is reflected in two large-scale annual festivals: the Styrian Autumn ("steirischer herbst"), which is devoted to various aspects of contemporary arts, and the summer festival, the styriarte, which focuses on modern interpretation of established music.
The Province of Styria has, throughout its history, acted as a bridge; in recent years this region has intensified this bridging function and today Styria is a forum for important economic and artistic events, both between east and west and throughout the Alpine-Adriatic region.
The city of Graz
With its 250,000 inhabitants, Graz is Austria's second largest city. Due to its location in the south-east of the country, it is ideally suited to take on a role which it has played increasingly in recent years: Graz as a crossroads and pivot of cultural and economic exchange at all levels.
Graz constantly seeks to strengthen its position as an intercultural forum, which is one reason why both the Municipal Council and the Province of Styria strongly support and generously subsidize the European Centre for Modern Languages.
The fact that the City of Graz, as a signatory to a European declaration, has pledged itself to regional cooperation is a further indication of Graz's commitment to its role of mediator between regions.
A city with a long academic tradition, Graz is home to three universities, with more than 43,000 students. As a result, Graz can boast an excellent and extensive infrastructure of conference facilities, which are much in demand for international congresses and symposia.
In addition to the traditional role Graz plays as a crossroads for cultural and economic events, even its climate is reflected in two large-scale annual festivals: the Styrian Autumn ("steirischer herbst"), which is devoted to various aspects of contemporary arts, and the summer festival, the styriarte, which focuses on modern interpretation of established music.
The Province of Styria has, throughout its history, acted as a bridge; in recent years this region has intensified this bridging function and today Styria is a forum for important economic and artistic events, both between east and west and throughout the Alpine-Adriatic region.