Description
The EU Industry Daysare Europe’s flagship event dedicated to industry, serving as an open platform for industry representatives, the research community, and civil society representatives. They are an opportunity to discuss the future of EU industrial policy with high-level EU policymakers, to discover EU initiatives in support of EU industry and to find new partners to collaborate with. The next edition of the EU Industry Days will take place on 5-6 June 2025 in Rzeszów, Poland, in the context of the Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
The EU Industry Days 2025 will zoom in on:
Competitiveness and Decarbonisation: Creating lead markets for clean technologies, accelerating decarbonisation and circularity, increasing clean energy, developing framework conditions and infrastructure, strengthening the single market.
An Innovative Industry: Increasing and derisking investments, upskilling and reskilling, enabling start-ups and scale-ups to thrive, fostering critical technologies, and promoting R&I.
Increasing Security and Reducing Dependencies with EU Industry: Strengthening defence, building and ensuring the resilience of EU value chains, facilitating access to critical raw materials, and supporting Ukraine’s recovery.
As part of the main programme, the European Commission has just launched a call for proposals for stakeholder sessions, allowing industrial stakeholders to apply to organise a parallel session as part of the main programme of the event. The deadline to apply is 31st January 2025 at 12h00 CEST.
Beyond the main programme, the event will also include:
Meet the Experts Corner: The Meet the Experts Corner will be used to provide participants, especially SMEs, start-ups, entrepreneurs, and smaller mid-caps, with access to information on available financial or non-financial support for them to scale up, integrate sustainable and digital business models into their process, adopt advanced technologies, and improve their resilience
Exhibition: The exhibition will include over 30 stands which will showcase cutting-edge technology prototypes that can contribute to enhancing companies’ productivity, competitiveness and sustainability
Matchmaking: Participants will also be able to meet new suppliers, customers, and investors, and in this way access new business leads and cooperation opportunities