In 2008, the EU and NICT jointly held the 1st EU-Japan Symposium on Future Internet (FI) and New Generation Networks (NWGN) in an effort to step up the collaborations in the NWGN and FI research activities between the EU and Japan. And the 2nd and the 3rd symposium were held in 2009 and 2010 respectively.
The 4th symposium will focus specially on several issues which are required to be solved with joint research efforts by the EU and Japan researchers. Extensive discussions on practical research methods for the above issues will be carried out in a form of workshop. Research subjects in some of fundamental research areas will discuss as well for future joint research activity.