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French-Japanese Foundation Events for 2026
Various events to strengthen ties between EU and Japan for research and industrial purposes
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France Japan Foundation Young Leaders First Cohort Strengthens Bilateral Ties
Young Leaders from France and Japan unite to strengthen cultural, political, and economic ties.
Vitagora at the Expo 2025 Osaka
French and Japanese converge under the theme of sustainable food systems.
A French Fashion & Innovation exhibition in Nagai Park during the World Expo in Osaka
EXPO Osaka Special: During World Expo Osaka 2025, the French cultural organization lille3000 will hold an exhibition built around innovative textiles and fashion with Yanmar in Nagai Park, echoing the French Pavilion, from 12 April to 31 July 2025.
Biotech Mission Case study: NovAlix
NovAlix is a drug discovery-focused Contract Research Organization (CRO) that was founded in Strasbourg, France, in 2002. Learn about its journey to the Japanese market.
Trilateral AI Conference 2024: Fostering Global Collaboration in AI
The Trilateral AI Conference 2024, held on 12-13 November, brought together experts from Germany, France, and Japan to explore risks and challenges, ethical implications, and societal impacts of Generative AI. This event focused on the responsible development of GenAI and global best practices by emphasizing international collaboration.
Vitagora’s actions for gathering French & Japanese Life and Food sciences ecosystems
Vitagora, the French agri-food and innovation cluster, has been collaborating with the Japanese Kyushu Bio Cluster Conference (KBCC) for more than 10 years, implementing tangible and long-term actions between the two networks: visiting companies and research centers, discovering the expertise of both networks, signing partnership agreements between their members.
Manufacturing and hospitality – two sectors, one set of lean approaches
Lean in Europe visits show how process improvement / optimisation is relevant for all sectors and sizes of company. Whereas the most recent visit addressed lean in manufacturing, April’s one will look at lean in hospitality.
Market Access Online Workshop - EU (presentations)

 

Market Access Online Workshop (in close collaboration with Techtera);

French Business Awards 2023
The French Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Japan has the pleasure to launch the 2023 edition of the annual French Business Awards (FBA) and the French Tech Tokyo Award, open to all French Chamber members regardless of nationality, and the latter open to non-members as well.
Case study - Treefrog
TreeFrog Therapeutics is a French biotechnology company specialized in cell therapy. In April 2022, it announced the opening of a lab in Kobe, Japan, with the aim of establishing strategic alliances with key academic and industrial players in the field of regenerative medicine.
3rd Japanese-German-French AI Symposium
At the 3rd trilateral symposium on Artificial Intelligence (AI), stakeholders from academia, industry and policymaking will discuss measures to tackle planetary challenges that humankind is facing in the Anthropocene and share their visions for realizing a sustainable society.

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Call for proposal to outsource the EU-Japan IP Helpdesk service in FY2026
The EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation is currently accepting applications to the call for…
Call for proposal to outsource the assessment of eligible costs and desk check control of the EU-Japan Centre’s FY2025 work
The EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation is currently accepting applications to the call for…
call for proposal to outsource the yearly maintenance service for IT networks and related services, computer hardware and software in the Head Office in Japan in FY2026
The EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation is currently accepting applications to the call for…
call for proposal to outsource the Japan Tax and Public Procurement Helpdesk service for FY2026
The EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation is currently accepting applications to the call for…
JAPANESE ECONOMIC AND BUSINESS WEEKLY NEWSLETTER: 14 - 20 February, 2026
The EU Japan Centre is releasing a weekly press review covering Japan's economic and business…

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17/03/2026
Current status and challenges of the circular economy: Toward a growth-oriented resource-autonomous economy
EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation Policy SeminarCurrent status and challenges of the circular economy: Toward a growth-oriented resource-autonomous economy Tuesday 17 March 2026, 16:30–18…
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14/09/2026 - 12/03/2027
Vulcanus in Europe - host a Japanese intern in R&D
A unique opportunity for EU companies to host Japanese S&T university students as interns for R&D   Vulcanus in Europe 2026 - 2027:  Deadline: 20 September (new companies) - 30 September…

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