October 28 - October 29
The EU-Indo-Pacific Digital Partnership Conference 2025 will bring together policy makers, researchers, innovators, and business leaders to discuss and advance the cooperation between the European Union and the Indo-Pacific countries in the field of digital technologies and their application. It supports the implementation of the Digital Partnerships between the European Union and Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and the Trade and Technology Council with India.
The EU aims to strengthen the existing digital partnerships, exploit synergies between them, and establish new ones. The signing of the EU-Singapore Digital Trade Agreement (EUSDTA) on 7 May 2025 marks a milestone in the cooperation between the EU and the Indo-Pacific countries. It provides legal certainty by codifying high-level norms on data protection and source-code safeguards, while reducing compliance frictions for small and medium-sized enterprises. By aligning European regulatory strengths with Singapore’s position as an agile digital innovator, the partnership demonstrates that high data-protection standards can coexist with open markets and innovation, putting forward a model for future digital trade frameworks and tech alliances.
Europe offers great opportunities for researchers and innovators from the Indo-Pacific. European Union’s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Funding program is one of the largest and broadest in the world and it is open for collaboration with a large number of countries. The collaboration within Horizon Europe and the next Framework Program can happen via the association of non-EU countries to the Framework Program, as for the Republic of Korea, Canada, Great Britain, New Zealand and many others, but also in dedicated sub-programs and calls in certain domains. Moreover, organisations from low and middle income countries are entitled to apply for funding within the scope of calls for proposals. The program funds a broad range of activities, from research scholarships and staff exchange to large-scale collaborative innovation projects that involve industry, end-users, researchers, and others.
The EU-Indo-Pacific Digital Partnership Conference 2025 will discuss core digital technologies and opportunities for collaboration between the EU and the Indo-Pacific countries on the development of technologies and their applications and technology-related regulations and policies.
