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Explore how Fukuoka City supports international start-ups and business expansion.

On 31 August 2024, His Excellency Mr. Takashi Okada, the Japanese Ambassador to Finland, and Mr. Markus Hirvonen, North Karelia Region Mayor, planted an Ezo-Yama Sakura cherry blossom seedling at Kirkkopuisto (Church Park) in Joensuu, the capital of North Karelia, as well as Forest Capital of Europe.

Located in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in Eastern France, the agri-food innovation cluster Vitagora has tied strong relationships with its Japanese partners for more than 15 years. Since the COVID-19 crisis, Vitagora has opened a subsidiary office in Kumamoto, Japan, to deepen these relationships and find out new opportunities that could lead to a better world through food and health.

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes is one of the 6 winning regions of the European programme "International Urban and Regional Cooperation" IURC EU-Japan, which supports cooperation for innovation between European regions and Japanese prefectures.

The cluster management organizations BioM, based in Munich, Germany, and Osaka Bio Headquarters, based in Osaka, Japan, officially announced the renewal of their long-standing Transnational Biotech & Life Sciences Cooperation Partnership Agreement on the occasion of the EU-Japan Biotech & Pharma Partnering Conference 2022 in Osaka.

The PIMAP+ consortium coordinated by ALPHA-RLH has organized a learning expedition in Tokyo from June 20 to June 23.

EU-Japan Regional & Cluster Cooperation Annual Conference & Matchmaking  13-14 December 2022, online