About us

Established in 1987, the EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation is a unique venture between the European Commission and the Japanese Government. It aims at promoting all forms of industrial, trade and investment cooperation between the EU and Japan and
at improving EU and Japanese companies’ competitiveness and cooperation by facilitating exchanges of experience and know-how between EU and Japanese businesses.

The Centre

• Presentation of the Centre and its main activities
• Organisation chart
• Contact Details and Location

Priorities

The EU-Japan Centre is committed to developing its activities to follow as closely as possible the priorities of the Japanese and EU Authorities and the needs of industry.

• Climate Change, Environment and Energy
• Trade and Investment
• Industrial Policy (including SME policy)

Our activities

• Seminars and studies
  - Climate Change, Environment and Energy
  - Trade and Investment
  - Industrial Policy (incl. SME policy, innovation policy, competition policy, etc.)
• EU-Japan Business Round Table

SERVICES TO BUSINESS

• Training Programmes
  - For EU senior executives, exporters and investors on how to succeed in Japan
  - For EU plant managers on manufacturing processes, kaizen, competitiveness, R&D, technology, etc
  - For EU and Japanese engineering and science students (“Vulcanus” in-company internships and language training)
• Information Service and help desk
  Business inquiries, seminars, etc.
  - For EU and Japanese business

• FP7 & BILAT in Japan
  Information service on Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) -For researchers in Japan (public and private sectors) -Industry-academia cooperation
• Clusters Helpdesk
  Information service to help EU and Japanese clusters identify potential partners