The EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation is a unique venture between the European Commission and the Japanese Government. It is a non-profit organisation aimed at promoting all forms of industrial, trade and investment cooperation between the EU and Japan and at improving EU and

The EuroBioRef project (European Multilevel Integrated Biorefinery Design for Sustainable Biomass Processing) deals with the entire process of transformation of biomass, from fields to final commercial products. eurobioref.org

CatchBio has initiated an ambitious research program of 8 years in the field of catalytic biomass conversion. Its aim is to process the various components present in biomass (cellulose, hemi-cellulose, lignin, proteins and oils) in useful fuels, chemicals and pharmaceuticals. Also the

The European Commission has funded a number of coordinated EU-Japan projects in 2011: LEMSUPER – LIGHT ELEMENT MOLECULAR CONDUCTIVITY (lemsuper.eu) IRON-SEA – Establishing the basic science and technology for Iron-based superconducting electronics applications (www.ironsea