'Vulcanus in Europe' is an exchange programme that offers EU companies an opportunity to host Japanese S&T university students as trainees in R&D for a 7/6-month period.
By taking part in Vulcanus, the company gains an insight into Japanese business culture, benefits from a valuable addition to its R&D team and is assisted in the development of its business with Japan, through establishing links for a future cooperation.
Here a successful story from Vulcanus in Europe 2022-2023 described by the Portuguese company Stab Vida Lda, specialised in genetics and genomics who hosted the Japanese trainee Takumi Yamaguchi.

Joint venture established in 1987 by the European Commission (DG GROW) and the Japanese Government (METI) for promoting all forms of industrial, trade and investment cooperation between the EU and Japan.