EU Project Innovation Centre

EEN West & North China

EUPIC Mission • Business incubation for EU companies

• Platform for trade, investment, technology

innovation & transfer between EU & China

• Assist Chinese enterprises with investment and development in Europe

• EU-China Projects application & execution

EU Project Innovation Centre

European Resource

The only EU project innovation centre

in China supported by EU DG

commission, which covers 28

member countries, over 600 industry

institutes, clusters, R&D centres and a

complete database with 1.3 million

enterprises worldwide as a platform

of international business cooperation.

● Sichuan Branch of “China Innovation Relay Centre” by Torch Centre of MOST in 2010 ● Member of the International Strategic Alliance initiated by Torch Centre International Cooperation

Centre of Sichuan Provincial Science and Technology Department ● World Innovation and Investment Promotion Centre- Chengdu Base, entitled by the Investment

Promotion Agency of the China Ministry of Commerce ●China International Technology Transfer Centre entitled by MOST

State-Level Technology Transfer Centre

Chinese Resource

* Covering 10 Provinces in West China and 6 in North China

EUPIC has nearly 30 full-time employees, most of whom have experience in working in European countries.

Supported by multi-lingual experts from various fields with rich international technology transfer experience, providing professional consultancy and projects evaluations.

In January 2013, EUPIC set up its European office in Brussels, Belgium.

Team

Belgium office

EUPIC

Strategy Experts

Industrial Experts

Language & Culture Specialist

Financial Experts

and Investors

IPR & Legal Experts

EUPIC has welcomed the visits by Mr. Herman Van Rompuy-president of the European Council, Mr.

Tony Blair-the former British Prime Minister, Ms. Angela Merkel- the German Chancellor, Mr.

Markus Ederer- the EU ambassador to China and Mr. Jean-Luc Dehaene- former Prime Minister of

Belgium.

There are more than 3000 person-time of senior officials from EU members, international

organizations and enterprises from Belgium,Poland, Germany, Czech, Spain, Italy and UK etc.

I. Main Previous Work -Visited by Overseas Senior Officials

1.Seeking sound cooperation relations with EU countries

Successfully organized 10 editions of EU-China Business &Technology Cooperation Fair

2. Execute cooperative projects between EU and China

I. Main Previous Work : Hosting Events

During the past 10 editions of the Fair, there were total 2,650 European companies and 4,800

Chinese companies having attended this event. And more than 23,000 “B2B” matchmaking

meetings have been organized. Totally there are 1,659 contracts and intention agreements

signed and 58 seminars and forums organized. EU-China BTCF has become the most

highlighted event in WCIF(West China International Fair) and the EU-China international

cooperation platform.

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Organizing 4 editions of Sino-France/EU Innovation Clusters Cooperation Forum

On October 17, 2010, Sino-France Innovation Clusters Cooperation Forum was held in Chengdu. Mr.

Cao Jianlin, deputy minister of MoST, Mr. Luc Rousseau, deputy minister of French Industry

Ministry, and more than 200 attendees from national clusters, research organizations and

companies participated in this forum.

Main Previous Work: International Clusters Cooperation

On Sep. 27, 2011, the 2nd Sino-France Innovation Clusters Cooperation Forum was held in

Montpellier, France. Attendees include government officials from MOST,TORCH, Sichuan Government

and more than 300 participants from various clusters and enterprises from China and France.

Oct 22, 2014, the 3rd EU-China Cluster Cooperation Seminar held in Chengdu. Participants include DG

Enterprise and Industry, EU delegation to China and 15 European clusters from over 10 countries and 32

Chinese clusters throughout the country, with a total number of over 150 participants.

June 11-21,2014, EUPIC organized a business mission of 82 participants making a fruitful business visit to Belgium, the Czech Republic and Germany. During the visit, EU-China Innovation Cooperation Forum, Sino-Czech General Aviation Forum and Sino-Germany Projects Promotion and B2B meetings held between Chinese and European organizations have been organized. Also the government leaders from China and the Czech Republic have jointly signed the Memorandum of Sino-Czech General Aviation Clusters Cooperation.

2014 West China Business Delegation to Europe

Main Previous Work: Going out

Main Previous Work: Going out

2015 Hi-Tech Business Delegation to Europe June 3-13, 2015, EUPIC organized a business mission of 66 participants making a fruitful business visit to Poland and Italy. During the visit, Lodz (Poland) – Sichuan (China) Economic Cooperation Seminar,

EU-CHINA Days: Joint Cooperation to Enhance Investments and Business Opportunities and B2B meetings held between Chinese and European organizations have been organized. Also the government leaders from China and the Sicily (Italy) have jointly signed the Memorandum of Cooperation between Sichuan and Sicily.

Execute Bilateral Governmental Projects

European Projects:

WASTE-7

Seventh Framework Programme（FP7）

Switch Asia

Invest Asia

EC2 Europe-China Clean Energy Centre

Dragon Star

Main Previous Work

Chinese Projects

Platform of EU-China SMEs Technology Innovation Cooperation

Sichuan Technology Transfer System and Capacity Building

R&D and Application of High-Tech Industrial Cluster Service Platform

Sino-Nordic IT Outsourcing Platform

1.Building Sino-EU company project database

II. Main Achievements

The visitors access volume of the online database reaches 5.24 million, after the

professional evaluation, totally 57,187 effective projects information has been spread and

sent out to Chinese enterprises and all innovation centers, also the online project B2B

matchmaking meetings are organized regularly.

II. Main Achievements

2. Illustrations of successful promotion of some governmental cooperation UK: Direct flight from Chengdu to London Germany: Direct flight from Chengdu to Frankfurt Poland: Railway from Chengdu to Lodz, Poland Denmark: Sister city relation between Chengdu and Horsens Denmark: Sino-Denmark New Energy and Environment R& D Center Germany: Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum under Dragon Star Project

Czech: Sino-Czech General Aviation Industry Cluster Cooperation

France: Chengdu Montpellier Primary School

• CCI Paris Ile-de-France • M2M (China) Co., Ltd. France • Freudenberg Vilence Filter (Chengdu)Co.,

Ltd. • Inet-Logistics Co., Ltd. • Sensor-Nite Chengdu Co., Ltd. • Sparkle Jade LTD. • Eurocopter China • DIS Information System GmbH • …………

• Austrian Federal Economic Chamber • German Chamber of Commerce • Netherlands Business Support Office • French Chamber of Commerce • Representative Office of the Lodzkie and the

City of Lodz in Chengdu • Montpellier Agglomération • Horsens Municipality in Chengdu.Denmark • Belgian-Chinese Economic and Commercial

Council

II. Main Achievements

3、More than 60 European organizations and companies have been served to setup offices in Chengdu Hi-Tech zone

Successfully promoted more than 40 international business cooperation and projects with a

total value of RMB500 million and driven the relative industrial value of RMB2 billion. These

projects and cooperation have improved innovation and international competitiveness of the

SMEs from China and Europe.

Some Chinese companies such as Forward Technology, Alltech Medical, Guibao Sealants,

Tongwei Group and Tiger Microwave etc. have cooperated with European partners in joint

technology R&D, technology transfer and direct investments.

4、 Sino-EU company cooperation projects

II. Main Achievements

Inauguration ceremony

Mr. Li Qun, Provincial Committee, Secretary CPC Qingdao Municipal Committee and Mrs. Carmen

Cano, Minister and Deputy Head of Delegation, Delegation of the European Union to China, launched the

Inauguration ceremony of EU Project Innovation Centre (Qingdao) and Enterprise Europe Network(EEN)

North China.

Nov 5, 2015, EU Project Innovation Centre (Qingdao)

and Enterprise Europe Network(EEN) North China

settled in Qingdao High-tech Zone.

It has strong support from the European Commission,

Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s

Republic of China ,Qingdao Municipal Government,

especially Qingdao High-tech Zone government.

It is a comprehensive service platform for the

cooperation between EU and North China, especially

for Qingdao.

Overview

Incubation centre

EU Project Innovation centre can afford soft landing services for European SME companies with high

service efficiency to help enterprise reduce cost and risk, especially for the company in new start up period.

1,300 sqm for office, conference,

leisure and business function.

Company/representative office

registration.

Business consulting services

6-12 month rent-free offices

provided.

Support of law and intellectual

property rights

Assistance of the customs and

logistics

Language services

Human resources support Mr. Antti PELTOMÄKI, Deputy Director-General of the Enterprise and Industry Directorate-General of the European Commission visited Enterprise Europe Network(EEN) North China

EU-China (Qingdao) Business & Technology Cooperation Fair X

The EU-China Fair was built around several interlocked events, including: the EU-China Innovation &

Entrepreneurship Forum, the EU-China Maritime and High End Machinery Equipment Industry

Cooperation Seminar, the EU-China Energy and Environmental Protection Seminar, the exploration

of Qingdao development potential through the visit at the High-Tech Zone, along with the

Matchmaking Meetings and all the Exhibition activities.

Nearly 100 representatives of governments, institutions and enterprises from Europe, as well as

more than 320 representatives of Chinese enterprises participated to the Fair.

EU-China (Qingdao) Business & Technology Cooperation Fair X

November 6, 2015 – More than 300 Matchmaking Meetings were held at Shangri-La Hotel, Qingdao. Over 160 Chinese and European companies has been engaged in one-to-one business meetings focusing on cooperation in the sectors of new energy, environmental protection, new material, bio-pharmaceuticals, ICT, shipbuilding, culture, tourism and food industries.

The European representatives visited the new office of EUPIC and afterwards paid a

separate visits to the 3D Painting Innovation Service Centre, the International Graphene

Innovation Centre and the Qingdao Sunred Electronic Equipment CO., LTD. Memoranda of

Understanding was signed between Qingdao Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone, EUPIC

(Qingdao) and Knowledge for Business (Italy); with Kama Innovative Territorial Industrial

Cluster (Russia) and with Montpellier Mediterranean Metropole (France).

Main Achievements ：