Value proposition

A platform dedicated to the cooperation between European regions & clusters and Japanese prefectures & clusters

The EU-Japan Regional Cooperation Helpdesk launched by the EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation (a joint initiative of the European Commission DG GROW and the Japanese Government under METI) is a new regional cooperation platform mobilizing European regions and clusters, Japanese Prefectures and clusters, that fully exploits the EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) and the EU-Japan Partnership on Sustainable Connectivity, signed by Prime Minister Abe and President Juncker in Brussels on 27 September 2019.

The EJRC Helpdesk will promote cooperation in terms of industry, trade, investment, innovation, tourism, and people mobility. Such cooperation will be bilateral between European and Japanese stakeholders, but it may also include EU +Japan jointly operating vis-à-vis third countries, e.g. in Africa, South East Asia, EU neighborhood countries, Latin America.