Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Thursday inaugurated the own building of the Goethe-Zentrum in the city to house Germany’s language centre and the office of the Honorary Consul. Speaking after inaugurating the new centre located at Jawahar Nagar, he said that the relationship between Kerala and Germany dated back to the 19th Century with the arrival of the Basel Mission in Kozhikode.
It had contributed significantly to the progress of Malabar in the areas of education, industry and social transformation. He also recalled the contributions of Hermann Gundert who compiled a Malayalam grammar book ‘Malayalabhaasha Vyakaranam’.
He said that with the signing of the Triple Win Agreement between India and the German Federal Employment Agency in December 2021 to recruit 1,500 nurses from Kerala, Goethe-Zentrum, which was set up in Thiruvananthapuram and later in Kochi, became the official partner to provide German language training to these candidates.
