Something lighter for a change. What do all these words have in common?
AGORES, DAPHNE, EQUAL, HOPE, JEREMIE, JASPERS, JESSICA, RAPID, Marco Polo, PRADO, PRELEX, PROGRESS, SIMAP, TRANSIT, URBAN,
Ok, the question was rather rhetorical: There are of course all acronyms for EU programmes, EU grants and some EU databases. In case you still don’t have enough, check here, here and here for more exciting EU acronyms! Perhaps you agree with me that it is quite an art to come up with new acronyms all the time. So finally here is (probably) the officially adopted quide how to produce “clever acronyms”:
Some more to add to your collection – it’s not just funding programmes but legislation that gets the treatment…two that spring to mind from my daily work that are banded around Brussels…
- REACH
- SCALE
In case of the latter, we did wonder whether parts of the “non-action” plan were put in there simply so DG Environment (or DG ENVI) could get the acronym that they wanted.
At one point we did wonder whether the DG ENVI organigram would show a Unit in charge of acronym creation.
On the positive side, it allows people like me to pretend we are smart by reeling them out in meetings and pretending we know what they are all about…
I particularly liked the EU’s Globalisation Adjustment Fund a couple of years ago – bit of a GAFf that was…
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My personal favourite is the proposal for Eco Buildings known by the elegant acronym “Bringing Retrofit Innovation to Application in Public Buildings” – or simply “BRITA in Pubs”.
http://www.kosmopolito.org/the-art-of-eu-acronyms/ HEH
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