The EU-Japan Forum was an academic forum to promote research and collaboration on key policy issues between the EU and Japan. The Forum featured two public plenary discussions of broad topics and 5 breakout roundtable expert-led discussions. The themes covered ranged from science & technology (S&T) to social sciences and humanities (SSH). As the EU and Japan approached their self-imposed deadline for concluding their negotiations for an EU-Japan Free Trade Agreement / Economic Partnership Agreement, the Forum began with a keynote address by H.E. Ambassador Kazuo Kodama of the Mission of Japan to the EU.
The Forum was organised by Waseda University, the Université Libre de Bruxelles - Institut d’études Européennes, the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the European Institute for Asian Studies (EIAS) and was supported by the EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation.
A formal event report is being prepared by the EIAS and this page will link to it once it is published.
The structure of the event was as follows:
| Panel Discussion | EXPERT PANEL ON THE STATE OF THE EU-JAPAN PARTNERSHIP | |
| Parallel Roundtables | The EU-Japan Strategic Partnership in Criminal Matters - The Agreement on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Revisited | The EU-Japan Strategic Partnership in health/medical research - prospects associated with Biomechanics and Robotics |
| Parallel Roundtables | Citizens and their Rights - Shifting understandings of the Rule of Law | Transition Planning and Architecture to meet the environmental agenda in Belgium and Japan |
| Parallel Roundtables | NATO, Europe and Japan - the Prospects of deeper Security Cooperation | Identity Politics in Europe and Japan - Polities facing Nationalism and Fragmentation |
| Parallel Roundtables | The EU-Japan Strategic Partnership on Competition - From The Agreement on Cooperation on Anti-competitive Activities to the FTA/EPA | Microfluidics and Lab-on-Chips - Research on Emerging Technologies in Europe, Japan & Belgium |
| Parallel Roundtables | Politics, Culture and Traditional Values in Post-Modern Societies - Europe and Japan | Popular Culture in Japan and Europe - Manga & the Franco-Belgian Comic Book |
| Panel Discussion | ANNIVERSARY PANEL ON 150 YEARS OF BELGO-JAPANESE DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS | |
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Joint venture established in 1987 by the European Commission (DG GROW) and the Japanese Government (METI) for promoting all forms of industrial, trade and investment cooperation between the EU and Japan.
The EU-Japan Centre’s activities are subject to the allocation of a Grant Agreement by the European Commission for 2024-2026
