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Defence mission to Japan 2025

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Starts in 4 months from now

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Tokyo, Japan

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The EU-Japan Centre is launching its very first mission targeting the defence sectors.

This mission is organised on the fringe of the “DSEI Japan - Defence & Security Industry Event” fair held in May 2025 in Tokyo, Japan. During this 3-day fair, selected participants will be able to exhibit in a joint booth under the EU-Japan Centre umbrella. (For more info about this fair https://www.dsei-japan.com )

The mission will give to 12 EU SMEs the opportunity to enter the Japanese market or further develop their ongoing activities in the country and establish technology or business partnerships and therefore increase their innovation capacity and make them more competitive on the global scale.

Mission date: 20-23 May 2025
Application deadline: 17 January 2025
Venue: Tokyo, Japan

TARGET SECTORS
• Aerospace technologies
• Cyber-security and IT and AI technologies
• Drone or AUV technologies
• Laser-, acoustic or satellite communication technologies
• Maritime defense technologies
• Guide Missile technologies
• Radar technologies
• other defense-related services and equipment

COSTS
- The EU-Japan Centre will cover participation fees to the trade fair, and the booth operational costs.
- The participants' companies are expected to cover travel, accommodation and living expenses.

For more information about the mission and to apply:
https://www.eu-japan.eu/events/defence-mission

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Miricle - Mine Risk Clearance for Europe

The Miricle project, ‘Mine Risk Clearance for Europe’, obtained funding under the European Defence Industrial Development programme call ‘Underwater control contributing to resilience at sea’. The main objective of the project was to achieve a European and sovereign capacity in future mine warfare and create a path for the next generation ‘made in Europe’ countermeasure solutions. In order to realise this objective, Miricle addressed various stages: studies, design, prototyping and testing. These stages inter alia included the successful testing of an XL Unmanned Underwater Vehicle, a protototyped mine disposal system and multiple innovative systems to detect buried mines. Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), was one of the five Belgian partners in the consortium. Within the project, VLIZ was able to forward its research on the acoustic imaging of the seabed to spatially map and visualize buried structures and objects - in this case buried mines - in the highest possible detail. VLIZ also led the work on ‘Port and Offshore Testing’, building on the expertise of the institute in the field of marine operations and technology.