EU Busi­ness Hub @ Med­ical Japan 2027 – busi­ness mis­sion to Tokyo

Are you active in the health­care and med­ical equip­ment sec­tor and seek­ing busi­ness, tech­nol­o­gy, or col­lab­o­ra­tion oppor­tu­ni­ties in Japan? In May 2027, the Euro­pean Union Del­e­ga­tion to Japan, through the EU Busi­ness Hub pro­gramme, invites Euro­pean SMEs and star­tups to join the Med­ical Japan Busi­ness Mis­sion 2027. The mis­sion offers a valu­able oppor­tu­ni­ty to explore the Japan­ese mar­ket, meet poten­tial busi­ness and tech­nol­o­gy part­ners, and show­case Euro­pean health­care solu­tions.

The miss­sion is arranged as part of the EU Busi­ness Hub – Japan and the Repub­lic of Korea, a EU — fund­ed pro­gramme that helps EU com­pa­nies active in the green and low-car­bon tech­nolo­gies, dig­i­tal solu­tions, and health­care and med­ical equip­ment sec­tors to enter the two Asian mar­kets by organ­is­ing busi­ness mis­sions to Japan and to the Repub­lic of Korea between 2024 and 2027.

Time: 24 May — 28 May 2027

Place: Tokyo

Inter­est­ed com­pa­nies can apply by 29 Jan­u­ary 2027: https://eubusinesshub.eu/en/missions-catalogue

The Euro­pean Union will sup­port up to 50 Euro­pean SMEs and star­tups to attend Med­ical Japan 2027 Tokyo, tak­ing place at Tokyo Big Sight. The mis­sion com­bines par­tic­i­pa­tion in a ded­i­cat­ed EU-Japan Health­care and Med­ical Equip­ment Part­ner­ing Event in Tokyo with atten­dance at Med­ical Japan 2027, one of Japan’s lead­ing health­care exhi­bi­tions, held annu­al­ly since 2015. At the EU Busi­ness Hub booth, a ded­i­cat­ed team of pro­fes­sion­al inter­preters will be avail­able to sup­port par­tic­i­pat­ing Euro­pean com­pa­nies and facil­i­tate com­mu­ni­ca­tion with Japan­ese coun­ter­parts.

Tar­get audi­ence

Euro­pean SMEs and stratups active in the health­care and med­ical equip­ment sec­tor, par­tic­u­lar­ly those seek­ing busi­ness, tech­nol­o­gy or col­lab­o­ra­tion oppor­tu­ni­ties in Japan, includ­ing:

• Med­ical devices and equip­ment
• Diag­nos­tic and imag­ing tech­nolo­gies
• Dig­i­tal health
• AI appli­ca­tions in health­care
• Telemed­i­cine and remote patient mon­i­tor­ing
• Health­care IoT and smart med­ical sys­tems
• Elder­ly care tech­nolo­gies and ser­vices
• Reha­bil­i­ta­tion and assis­tive tech­nolo­gies

Services/benefits for the EU par­tic­i­pants

• Busi­ness match­mak­ing result­ing in pre-arranged in-per­son meet­ings with care­ful­ly select­ed Japan­ese com­pa­nies, as well as on-site coach­ing sup­port for busi­ness meet­ings with rel­e­vant coun­ter­parts who express inter­est dur­ing the event.
• Mar­ket intel­li­gence includ­ing sec­toral brief­in­gs pro­vid­ing valu­able insights into the Japan­ese health­care mar­ket and poten­tial busi­ness oppor­tu­ni­ties.
• Cul­tur­al and lin­guis­tic sup­port such as brief­in­gs on doing busi­ness in Japan, togeth­er with pro­fes­sion­al inter­pre­ta­tion and trans­la­tion sup­port.
• Finan­cial sup­port of up to €1,000 to ben­e­fit from a menu of addi­tion­al cus­tomised ser­vices co-fund­ed by the project, such as trans­la­tion, print­ing and legal advice.
• Hotel accom­mo­da­tion for four nights at Hilton Tokyo Odai­ba, with up to €1,000 in accom­mo­da­tion costs cov­ered by the pro­gramme.
• Cov­er­age of the exhi­bi­tion fee at Med­ical Japan 2027.
• EU Busi­ness Hub booth pres­ence, pro­vid­ing par­tic­i­pat­ing com­pa­nies with exhi­bi­tion and part­ner­ing space dur­ing Med­ical Japan 2027.
• Ded­i­cat­ed coach­ing sup­port to help com­pa­nies pre­pare and arrange tai­lored 1‑to‑1 meet­ings with Japan­ese coun­ter­parts.
• Net­work­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties through a ded­i­cat­ed net­work­ing event with Japan­ese and inter­na­tion­al stake­hold­ers.

Check for more infor­ma­tion, includ­ing the agen­da, here.

Source: Eurocham­bres, the Asso­ci­a­tion of Euro­pean Cham­bers of Com­merce and Indus­try