The second FINESTJAPAN trade mission to Japan successfully completed
FINESTJAPAN project arranged the second trade mission to Japan, Osaka on Oct 20-24, 2025. Participants were the Finnish environmental College Sykli (Finland), DeskMe (Finland) and Tuge Energy (Estonia) as well as the project partner Green Net Finland and Tehnopol Business and Science park (Estonia). Also Digiotouch (Estonia) took part in certain parts online.
The primary goal of the mission was to connect the FINESTJAPAN companies with interested business partners and explore new collaboration opportunities in Japan.
In the mission programme there was a FINESTJAPAN seminar day for the participating companies, where IBPC Osaka and Intralink gave informative lectures about Japan and the Osaka-Kansai business environment. The project arranged a networking event where the companies and Japanese target groups were pitching and presentations were given of the Green transfer, digital solutions and Sustainability.
A visit to Kyoto Research Park and ACT Kyoto was arranged on the Kyoto day. In Kyoto there were meetings with tech companies and the research park. Some of them will also participate to Slush in Helsinki in late November.
Pictures above: Participating organisations visited Kyoto Research Park.
All companies had additional one-to-one meetings with interesting counterparts during the mission. Participants valued these face-to-face contacts in Japan and they are continuing the discussions about collaboration after the mission.
Pictures above: Osaka night time view and delisious dinner.
FINESTJAPAN-project, a Central Baltic program project, aims to enhance Finnish and Estonian Green Tech SMEs to achieve a new business deal in the Japanese market. A secondary target is to introduce marketing or organizational innovation aiming at the Japanese market, such as to apply new marketing approaches. The SMEs will also gain knowledge of the Japanese business culture and obtain visibility in Japan together with other participating companies in the project.
