Call: Get Ready for Japan

• Are you a Start-Up or a SME (small medium enterprise)?

• Do you wish to gain in-depth insight into the Japanese business environment?

• Do you require a better understanding of your Japanese partners/competitors?

• Do you need to learn more about Japanese management practices?

• Are you about to be transferred to Japan?

• Are you considering venturing into the Japanese market?

The 2-week ‘Get Ready for Japan’ scheme offers EU managers the unique opportunity to experience and understand both the cultural and economic elements which define and explain Japan's business and technological achievements. Continuously improved to meet the latest expectations about business in Japan, the Get Ready for Japan provides EU businessmen with a professional Japan-related expertise.

PARTICIPANT PROFILE

Typical participants:
- Start-Up or SME
- have a major role in defining and implementing their companies’ policies vis-à-vis Japan,
- are to be transferred to Japan,
- come from companies intending to supply Japanese companies,
- wish to learn about management practices and technological developments in Japan.

ELIGIBILITY

The candidate must:

- be a citizen of an EU Member State or of a COSME partnering country;

- work for a company that is > 50% EU or COSME partnering country owned;

- work for an organisation that is an EU or COSME partnering country juridical person;

- be supported by their employer and be able to participate in the entire programme;

- have a reasonable command of English;

- be a manager or an executive from an industrial company;

- have proven experience in industry.

NB/ Participants from SMEs will be selected in priority. SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) are companies meeting the standard European Commission criteria for an SME.

Next session: 18.05.2020- 29.05.2020

In order to ensure a high degree of personal attention, the number of participants is limited to 14 participants

Application deadline: extended to 13.02.2020