Dundee has set its sights on becoming the European Capital of Culture 2023.

A UK city will win in 2023, it has already been decided, and will share the honour with a city from Hungary.

Leeds and Milton Keynes are already preparing bids, while others may enter the fray before the shortlisting deadline of mid 2017.

Capitals of culture are awarded by the European Union every year to highlight the richness of Europe's cultural diversity and its shared history and heritage.

The 2016 capital of culture is San Sebastian, in northern Spain, and Liverpool and Glasgow have both taken home the title for the UK, in 2008 and 1990 respectively.

Dundee City Council's policy and resources committee is being asked to approve "the principle" of Dundee's bid for the title at its next meeting on Monday, June 27.

It is also being asked to endorse and support Perth's bid to become UK City of Culture 2021, a title Dundee lost out on to Hull, at the same time.

Aberdeen Council confirmed on Tuesday that it would not compete after judges described its 2017 bid as "lacking vision" and having no "wow factor".

For a city to bid for European Capital of Culture it must first have an existing cultural strategy before it can bid, which Dundee has after its failed UK City of Culture bid for 2017.