Vulcanus in Europe

To showcase the Vulcanus in Europe programme in action, the EU-Japan Centre interviewed two interns participating in the 2025–2026 edition.

On 7 November 2025, we were honoured to co-organise the first-ever official EU-Japan Vulcanus Networking Event with Ambassador Kazutoshi Aikawa and the Mission of Japan to the European Union.

On 24 March 2025, the Centre hosted a debriefing session for the Japanese science and engineering students who participated in the Vulcanus in Europe 2024 programme.

The EU-Japan Centre is excited to share an interview with Koki Ito, a student at Tohoku University, who recently completed an internship at Astellas Pharma Ireland as part of the Vulcanus in Europe programme, session 2024/25, and with his supervisor, Martin Mulready.

Following up on the interview with two Vulcanus in Europe* participants published in June 2023, we are glad to share some updates from Yudai Morita, a student at Tohoku University - Graduate School of Engineering, who carried out an internship at the Spanish company Vector Renewables.

On 6 September, the EU-Japan Centre had a great pleasure of hosting the "Vulcanus in Europe" alumni get-together in Tokyo.

The EU-Japan Centre is happy to present the 5th edition of interviews featuring individuals and organisations making EU-Japan collaboration a reality. In this edition, we introduce the stories of European companies participating in our long-run training programme for Japanese students called ‘Vulcanus in Europe’.

Host a Japanese intern majoring in engineering, science, or technology and broaden your horizons in research and development!

Vulcanus in Europe 2023-24 Session’s ‘Mid-Term Meeting’ organised in Brussels.

Boost your R&D team by hosting a top Japanese university student of technical disciplines. Open to manufacturing and non-manufacturing companies of all sizes. Deadline to apply: 23 September 2023

During the orientation seminar for the Vulcanus in Europe programme 2023/24 session, held on 20 and 21 April in Brussels, the EU-Japan Centre had the chance to meet the participants of this year’s edition. We asked two of them, Yudai Morita and Keisuke Murota, to share with us how their experience abroad was going, which challenges they were facing and what hopes they had for the future.