Future EU-Japan Collaboration on Research and Innovation

With the EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement set to transform the EU-Japan relationship the opportunities for greater EU-Japan collaboration on science and technology issues will be enhanced. There will be greater possibilities for Japanese public, private and academic research entities to work with their European counterparts on research and innovation.

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This seminar looked at the EU’s short-term and long-term strategies for enhancing R&D&I collaboration:

• The Horizon 2020 work programme for the period 2018 to 2020
• Experiences, Expectations and Achievements of Horizon 2020
• How Joint Calls work and the newly-announced DG CNECT-MIC joint calls
• Going 'beyond the Horizon' – the Commission's current thinking for its ninth framework programme with reference to the Report of the independent High Level Group on maximising the impact of EU Research & Innovation Programmes

All the presentations can be viewed and downloaded from here:

• Anne Haglund-Morrissey (Senior Policy Officer - Japan Desk, DG Research and Innovation) gave a presentation entitled Horizon 2020 Work Programme for Research & Innovation 2018-2020
• Jean-Yves Roger (International Relations Officer,  DG for Communications Networks, Content and Technology) gave a presentation entitled Cooperation with Japan on 5G, Security, Cloud, IoT, Big Data & AI
• Stijn Lambrecht (Project Manager, NCP Japan / EEN Japan, EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation) gave a presentation entitled Achievements, status (and difficulties) of Japanese entities in Horizon 2020
• Lars Brückner (NEC Europe Ltd) gave a presentation entitled NEC Laboratories Europe - Experiences & Opportunities - Challenges & Expectations
• Eddy Roelants (Siemens) gave a presentation entitled Experiences & expectations of Siemens