Lazio Region: bridging ideas and traditions

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The 35 companies and startups selected by the Lazio Region's "Voucher Expo Osaka 2025" were also present at Expo 2025 Osaka, thanks to a non-repayable contribution. Expo 2025 Osaka was an important development opportunity for Lazio companies, thanks to a series of targeted events, B2B meetings and institutional missions, and a tight schedule of themed appointments. The collaboration with ICE (Agency for the promotion abroad and the internationalisation of Italian companies) and Assocamerestero favoured dialogue with international partners and investors. The companies selected by the Lazio Region's call for entries were joined by the 19 companies that won the Rome Chamber of Commerce's call for entries 'Expo Osaka 2025'. It was in Osaka that a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the President of the Rome Chamber of Commerce, Lorenzo Tagliavanti, and the President of the Osaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Torii Shingo, to "create a stable platform for the exchange of opportunities and to share bilateral economic and trade programmes and initiatives. The protocol, signed between the two Chambers of Commerce, aims to promote internationalisation processes and partnerships on paths related to attracting investments, meeting innovation ecosystems, and international co-planning for the benefit of companies operating in their respective areas'. 'The agreement represents a valuable opportunity to further strengthen the important business relations already in place between Japan and Rome,' explained Tagliavanti. 'We are confident that, following the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding, the links between the businesses of our territories will be increasingly consolidated into fruitful and long-lasting partnerships in the name of economic development, innovation and sustainability. Reaching this understanding during the Universal Expo represents an added value for the benefit of all our Made in Italy products". "Osaka is a city that has an important past and looks to the future with hope and confidence, in the name of development and prosperity," said President Torii Shingo. "This protocol strengthens the economic ties that already exist between Rome and Japan and, in particular, ensures that companies from the two territories receive mutual assistance and opportunities to meet and do business.

In this regard, the Capital's Chamber of Commerce reports that "in 2024, trade between the two countries amounted to €857.1 million (+4.9% on 2023). Rome's exports to Japan amounted to €183.6 million (+6.3% on 2023) against an import of €673.5 million (+4.5% on 2023). In Lazio as at 31 March 2025 there were 244 Japanese-born entrepreneurs registered in the Companies Register of the Chambers of Commerce, with the title of director (110), business owner (22), partner (102), other offices (10)'.

Also important was the event 'Research Infrastructures for Shaping the Future: Knowledge and Innovation Engines for Tomorrow's Communities', promoted and organised by the INFN, a moment of dialogue focusing on the key role of research infrastructures as amplifiers of resources, aggregators of people and catalysers of synergies and processes that foster the growth of territories and the wellbeing of communities. The main topics addressed by experts in two round tables also highlighted the fruitful scientific collaborations between Italy and Japan in the field of fundamental physics. Exploring new frontiers, how physics unlocks the secrets of the universe and expands knowledge, with a focus on the promising research areas of gravitational and multi-messenger astronomy and neutrino physics. Beyond the present, technological innovation and responsible solutions to support communities, improve everyday life and meet future challenges, focusing on particle accelerators, technologies and applications for society.

The Stati Generali dell'Aerospazio will therefore be held in September this year, an initiative that emphasises the strategic role of the sector, an important lever for the Region, which wanted to underline its relevance on the occasion of Expo 2025. The announcement came during the third day in the Lazio traction, where aerospace was the absolute protagonist in the Italian Pavilion, with a series of institutional events and international workshops that highlighted the importance of the sector, which will become an industrial district by the end of this year.

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On 19 May, the event "INVESTING IN LAZIO: JAPAN TELLS ITALY IN OSAKA THROUGH TERRITORIES" organised by the Lazio Region, in cooperation with the Ministry of Enterprise and Made in Italy and with Takeda Italia and Sony Computer Science Laboratories, was held at the Italian Pavilion at Expo in Osaka. After institutional greetings by Mario Vattani, Commissioner General for Italy, the event was opened by Roberta Angelilli, in her capacity as Vice President and Councillor for Economic Development, Trade, Crafts, Industry and Internationalisation of the Lazio Region, who illustrated the role of the Lazio Region in attracting foreign investments to the territory and the regional localisation offer. Takeda is a global biopharmaceutical company and industry leader, headquartered in Japan and present in over 80 countries, committed to improving people's health and building a brighter future for the world. In Italy, Takeda contributes to supporting the country's leading role in life science innovation. With around 1,300 employees and a sales office in Rome, it participates in international development plans thanks to two production plants of excellence, specialised in plasma processing and located in Rieti and Pisa, as well as to its commitment alongside Patients' Associations, valuable partnerships with Institutions, and the development of digital platforms and innovative home services, provided to clinicians through qualified providers. Although immersed in a corporate reality, the Sony Computer Science Laboratories are an independent organisation within the Sony galaxy, founded in 1988 with the aim of pioneering new fields and paradigms of research, as well as new technologies and actions for the benefit of humanity, society and our planet. Sony CSL is based in Tokyo, Kyoto, Paris and Rome with five research groups working on social issues such as sustainability, urban planning, improving human capabilities through new technologies, the relationship between human and artificial intelligence and data analysis. The company is engaged in research to make real-world systems and processes smarter and to harness the full potential of creativity and art.