Description
The European Commission (EC) organised the EU – Taiwan Matchmaking Event in the context of Taiwan Expo 2024 in Europe, which was held on 10-12 June 2024.
The EU – Taiwan Matchmaking Event itself took place on-site in Berlin, Germany on 10-12 June 2024 with a delegation of about 80 companies and trade organisations from Taiwan.
The event was be jointly organised by the European Commission through the European Cluster Collaboration Platform (ECCP), in collaboration with the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA), European Enterprise Network (EEN).
The EU – Taiwan Matchmaking Event brought together cluster organisations and SMEs from the European Union (EU), non-EU countries participating in the Single Market Programme/COSME Strand, and Taiwan. It provided participants an excellent chance to promote Cluster to Cluster (C2C), Cluster to Business (C2B), and Business to Business (B2B) collaborations.
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🗓️ Final Agenda & Participants' Booklet
Objectives
The objectives for the participants included:
- Strengthening EU-Taiwan cluster cooperation for the benefit of their members, including through a seminar, a cluster matchmaking event, and visits;
- Identifying potential areas of common interest for cooperation and synergies, in terms of the sectoral, value chain, and market focus of their SMEs and other companies;
- Through clusters, improving EU-Taiwan industry and academia-industry collaboration in research, development, and innovation. For its members, the clusters will identify possible areas of RDI collaboration (academia, research organizations, industries...).
Agenda and Activities
The EU – Taiwan Matchmaking Event included the following activities:
- Inspirational Webinar – a pre-event Webinar where all attendees received more information about the overall concept of the EU-Taiwan MME and why to attend. (18 April 2024)
- Technical Webinar – a session helping future participants of the matchmaking event to make the most of their profiling in B2Match and explain the procedures to optimise the booking of meetings.
- Site visits (12 June 2024)
- Seminar on knowledge exchange to foster EU-Taiwan cooperation. (10 June 2024)
- Pitching and Matchmaking meetings between cluster organisations and SMEs from EU (and non-EU countries participating in SMP/COSME Strand) countries and Taiwan. (10-11 June 2024)
- Debriefing session to collect feedback and testimonials from cluster participants (11 June 2024)
- Participation at the Taiwan Expo 2024 with a delegation of over 80 companies and trade organisations from Taiwan. All preselected Taiwanese SMEs and organisations are listed in the Annex I to this Call. (10-12 June 2024)
Focus areas
- ICT/Semiconductors and Digital industries,
- AI/IoT/Advanced manufacturing
- Smart Mobility
- Green/Circular Economy/Renewable energy/Sustainability
- Smart Healthcare
- Smart city/Connectivity/5G
Inspirational Webinar: Forge Connections: Discovering EU-Taiwan Matchmaking Event
An inspirational Webinar, themed Forge Connections: Discovering EU-Taiwan Matchmaking Event was held on 18.04.2024. The presentation from the webinar is available here.
Presentations delivered in the frame of the onsite matchmaking event
Pitching Session
Lucas-Wang Director, Corporate Synergy Development Center - download presentation
Larry Chen, Principal of Mijily Footwear - download presentation
Sammy Chiu, Business Development Vice President - download presentation
Deya, General Manager of UNI-PARAGON ENTERPRISE CO., LTD - download presentation
Vesselin Vassilev, PhD, Executive Director, CASTRA - download presentation
Mike Richardson, Senior Project Manager OpTecBB - download presentation
Prof. Federica Fernandez, Ecodomus Cluster Manager - download presentation
Ms. Berta Szabo, Cluster manager - download presentation
Mateo Djouadi, Innovation manager: Sustainable and inclusive finance & European project manager - download presentation
Eugenio Mimosi, bioPmed Piemonte Health Cluster - download presentation
Testimonials & Success stories of cooperation
Mike Richardson, Senior Project Manager Optecbb - download presentation
Roberto LAI, Deputy International Affairs Officer of ITRI Europe Office - download presentation
Practical Aspects on EU-Taiwan Business Cooperation
EU-Taiwan Business Cooperation, German Businesses in Taiwan - download presentation
Looking back at past missions to Taiwan
The 2023 Edition of EU-Taiwan Matchmaking Event was organised in close collaboration with the Chinese National Federation of Industries (CNFI), the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA), the Bureau of Foreign Trade and Ministry of Economic Affairs. The event aimed to inspire new partnerships, stimulate knowledge transfer of best practice, and encourage forward-thinking collaborations.
The main European Delegation was composed of some 11 clusters along with SMEs covering 13 countries from the EU plus countries participating in the COSME programme (i.e. Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Sweden, and Spain). Over 40 representatives from Taiwanese clusters, SMEs and government authorities also joined the event. During the matchmaking sessions over 100 C2C/B2B meetings took place.