French-Japanese Foundation Events for 2026

The French-Japanese Foundation (FFJ) organized two events at the end of 2025 to foster collaboration between EU and Japan:
1 December 2025, Tokyo, Japan: Seminar on the impact of AI on macroeconomy and financial stability with Banque de France, at the German Institute of Japanese Studies. The workshop was supported by the Banque de France-Fondation France-Japon Lab, the Canon Institute for Global Studies (CIGS), Crédit Agricole Group, the Embassy of France in Japan, the Embassy of Japan in France, the Bank of Japan, and the German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ).
3 December 2025, Gunma, Japan: the CCIFJ seminar presented FFJ research on Gunma’s economic and social potential, in terms of tourism, aging challenges and local innovation for French and Japanese cooperation.

The FFJ hereby announces several events in 2026 focusing on aging-related challenges both in the EU and in Japan as well as AI and its impact on society. The comparative aspect of the research conducted under the FFJ by its Japanese and EU partners will highlight new partnership opportunities between the two areas.

4-6 March 2026, Paris, France: INNOVCARE, care-led innovation: Annual Meeting days. As an embodiment of the aforementioned partnerships, that encompass researchers and civil society, the INNOVCARE project strives to gather interdisciplinary experts on the topic of healthy ageing and autonomy being regarded as socially demanding rather than purely technological, and draws inspiration from both Japanese and EU initiatives in the care-sector.
1-3 July 2026, Bordeaux, France: SASE miniconference2: Questioning the impacts of ageing on societies and economies. Global and comparative perspectives.
27 July 2026, Tokyo, Japan: Conference on the Special issue for the Journal of the Economics of Ageing about the current state of the economics of ageing in light of the experience in Japan, putting it in comparative perspective.

Source: French-Japanese Foundation