2023

Event Report: Hybrid Event “SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGY DAY”

The EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation and UNIDO ITPO Tokyo jointly organized a hybrid pitching and networking event called “SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGY DAY” on 17 February 2023. During this event, six Japanese companies (hereafter referred to as STePP companies) that hold innovative technologies registered on the UNIDO ITPO Tokyo’s Sustainable Technology Promotion Platform (STePP) made pitches about their businesses and technologies with the intention of collaborating with EU companies in Africa. About 60 people attended the event on-site, and over 100 people around the world watched the pitches online.

2022

Event Report: "Seminar & Networking: Japan's Technology Transfer to Mitigate the Impact of the COVID-19”

UNIDO ITPO Tokyo held the event titled “Seminar & Networking: Japan’s Technology Transfer to Mitigate the Impact of the COVID-19” on 9 June 2022. The purpose of the event was to report on the results of technology transfer projects called “Sustainable Technology Promotion Platform (STePP) Demonstration Project” implemented in 10 countries in Asia and Africa to fight against infectious diseases such as the COVID-19, which were funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan. This was the first face-to-face event held by ITPO Tokyo after the COVID-19 pandemic. 48 participants, including representatives from9 Japanese companies involved in the project and embassy officials from 7 countries, shared their experiences and knowledge to strengthen the collaboration.

Japan Supplies Health Technologies to Kenya to Help Fight COVID-19

On 6^th April, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) held a handover ceremony to introduce Japanese Technologies at three hospitals in Kenya, where UNIDO partnered with three Japanese companies to supply the products and to provide technical training to medical staff with funding from Japan to mitigate the impacts of COVID-19.

Event Report : UNIDO-Japan Cooperation - Mitigating the Impacts of COVID-19 through Technology Transfer from Japan

UNIDO and the Permanent Mission of Japan to the International Organizations in Vienna co-organized the webinar titled “UNIDO-Japan Cooperation: Mitigating the Impacts of COVID-19 through Technology Transfer from Japan” on 24 March 2022, which was attended mainly online by 225 global participants. Since 2020, UNIDO has been implementing a COVID-19 countermeasure project promoting technology transfer to Asia and Africa in cooperation with Japanese companies, funded by the Government of Japan. In this event, Japanese companies and local partners involved in the project introduced the activities and achievements in selected countries.

Women’s Voices: Japanese technologies mitigating the effects of COVID-19 in Africa and Asia

Throughout 2021, Japanese companies have finalized the establishment of their projects in selected countries in in Africa and Asia to help limit the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, under the UNIDO project “Strengthening the capacity of developing countries to mitigate the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic through appropriate technology transfer from Japan”, funded by the Government of Japan.

All projects targeted at least 40% women as beneficiaries and participants, impacting on their lives, health, prosperity and conditions at home and at work,. There are several different cases how women were involved in the projects. A few are described below.

2021

The First Meeting with Morocco and Kenya Stakeholders to Fight COVID-19

UNIDO ITPO Tokyo recently conducted two stakeholder meetings with Morocco and Kenya partners on March and April 2021 on the implementation of Japanese technology demonstration and transfer under its Sustainable Technology Promotion Platform (STePP) Demonstration Projects. Supported by a USD 4 million fund from Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the goal of these projects is to support developing and emerging countries to improve health, sanitary, and hygiene environment in the fight against COVID-19 and other infectious diseases through technology demonstration and transfer. Both Morocco and Kenya are among the 12 selected beneficiary countries located in Africa and Asia-Pacific.

2018

The Third Technology Day was held on 15 November

UNIDO ITPO Tokyo organized the Third Technology Day on November 15^th 2018, which was attended by 48 participants including 34 representatives from 25 embassies.

2017

The Second Technology Day

A platform event enabling direct communication between the representatives of embassies in Japan and Japanese companies who are eager to transfer their unique technologies in the area of environment and energy development especially for developing and emerging countries, took place for the second time in Tokyo at the UNU Building. The event, Technology Day, attracted 35 participants (representatives from 22 embassies and consultants), who spent the afternoon visiting the exhibition booths of the 12 Japanese companies.

Technology Day

Enthusiasm filled the room, as 50 representatives from 33 countries namely from Embassies of developing and emerging countries in Japan, met 12 Japanese companies through exhibition booths filled with demonstration models and information on technologies waiting to be promoted overseas.

2016

The joint workshop between ITPO Tokyo and companies on “Environmental Technology Database”

The joint workshop was held between UNIDO ITPO Tokyo and companies which were registered or interested in “Environmental Technology Database” on 15 March 2016.