France

Various events to strengthen ties between EU and Japan for research and industrial purposes

Young Leaders from France and Japan unite to strengthen cultural, political, and economic ties.

French and Japanese converge under the theme of sustainable food systems.

EXPO Osaka Special: During World Expo Osaka 2025, the French cultural organization lille3000 will hold an exhibition built around innovative textiles and fashion with Yanmar in Nagai Park, echoing the French Pavilion, from 12 April to 31 July 2025.

NovAlix is a drug discovery-focused Contract Research Organization (CRO) that was founded in Strasbourg, France, in 2002. Learn about its journey to the Japanese market.

The Trilateral AI Conference 2024, held on 12-13 November, brought together experts from Germany, France, and Japan to explore risks and challenges, ethical implications, and societal impacts of Generative AI. This event focused on the responsible development of GenAI and global best practices by emphasizing international collaboration.

Vitagora, the French agri-food and innovation cluster, has been collaborating with the Japanese Kyushu Bio Cluster Conference (KBCC) for more than 10 years, implementing tangible and long-term actions between the two networks: visiting companies and research centers, discovering the expertise of both networks, signing partnership agreements between their members.

Lean in Europe visits show how process improvement / optimisation is relevant for all sectors and sizes of company. Whereas the most recent visit addressed lean in manufacturing, April’s one will look at lean in hospitality.

TreeFrog Therapeutics is a French biotechnology company specialized in cell therapy. In April 2022, it announced the opening of a lab in Kobe, Japan, with the aim of establishing strategic alliances with key academic and industrial players in the field of regenerative medicine.

At the 3rd trilateral symposium on Artificial Intelligence (AI), stakeholders from academia, industry and policymaking will discuss measures to tackle planetary challenges that humankind is facing in the Anthropocene and share their visions for realizing a sustainable society.