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The EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation organised the EU-Japan-Africa Mission 2022 (online event) during the week of the 7th EU-Africa Business Forum.

Virtual workshop - EU-Japan business cooperation in and with Africa

On 14 February, the EU-Japan Centre organised a virtual workshop within the 7th EU-Africa Business Forum on the topic of EU-Japan Business Cooperation in and with Africa. It was the third most attended workshop with 507 participants.

During the workshop, the EU-Japan Centre announced the launch of its new helpdesk supporting EU-Japan buisness cooperation in and with Africa, as well as with Southeast Asia and Latin America.

The agenda of workshop is available here.

The recording of the workshop is available here.

To learn more about examples of Africa-EU-Japan trilateral business cooperation, please consult the following list of success stories.

Virtual booth and networking

In addition to the workshop, the EU-Japan Centre took part in the 7th EU-Africa Business Forum as an exhibitor and showcased its activities through a virtual booth. 

EU-Japan-Africa trilateral business matchmaking

On 18 February, the EU-Japan Centre organised a virtual B2B matchmaking to connect European companies with Japanese companies to discuss joint projects in and with Africa. The participation of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs*) was strongly encouraged. African companies looking for international partners also joined the matchmaking. This matchmaking event was organised as a side-event of the 7th EU-Africa Business Forum. The business matchmaking event was free of charge.

Access the matchmaking platform: https://eu-japan-africa-2022.b2match.io/

* SMEs are companies meeting the standard European Commission criteria for an SME.