Meet the team

Founded in the year 2000, the European Research and Project Office GmbH (EURICE) provides comprehensive support services for the planning, initiation, and implementation of large international collaborative Research and Innovation (R&I) projects. Today, EURICE is one of Germany’s largest project management and technology consultancy offices for research and innovation projects, with a dedicated team of 50 staff members. In addition to classical project management, EURICE helps to develop and implement coherent IP protection and management strategies and supports researchers and SMEs through support, networking, training and capacity building activities. Thus, EURICE accompanies researchers and innovative companies through the entire life cycle of a project – from the first idea to successful project completion – and fosters the successful exploitation of project outcomes into new products and/or services.

Since its establishment with just 60 members in 1998, the European Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam (EuroCham) has grown to represent over 1,000 European businesses, counting among its members some of the world’s leading enterprises. With offices in both Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, and Chapters in the Central, Northeastern and Southeastern regions of Vietnam, EuroCham’s mission is to represent the business interests of our members in Vietnam and to improve the business environment in the country for the benefit of all.

The Chamber is the leading organisation representing European business interests in Vietnam, and is also an umbrella organisation gathering affiliated European business associations: the Belgian-Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam (BeluxCham); the Central and Eastern European Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam (CEEC); the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Portugal-Vietnam (CCIPV); the Dutch Business Association Vietnam (DBAV); the French Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Vietnam (CCIFV); the German Business Association in Vietnam (GBA); the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam (ICham); the Nordic Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam (NordCham); and the Spanish Business Group in Vietnam (SBG). The British Business Group Vietnam (BBGV) and the Swiss Business Association (SBA) are close partner organisations. EuroCham is a founding member of the inter-foreign-chamber platform Vietnam Business Forum (VBF) and chaired it in 2018 for the first time since it was established in 1997.

EuroCham is a member of the European Business Organisation Worldwide Network ASBL (EBOWWN), representing European businesses in almost 40 countries across the globe and addressing common trade and investment related issues to the European Commission. In the region, EuroCham is a member of the EU-ASEAN Business Council. Since the end of 2015, EuroCham has been the implementing partner of the South East Asia IPR SME Helpdesk, providing free-of-charge advice and support on intellectual property protection when entering and expanding in the ASEAN market. Since 2016, EuroCham is also a consortium partner of the EU-Vietnam Business Network (EVBN), an EU co-funded project under the ICI+ programme which aims to support EU small and medium enterprises interested in doing business in Vietnam, while promoting the country and ASEAN’s business opportunities in Europe. In 2017, EuroCham was awarded Best Large Chamber of the Year at the Asia Pacific International Chambers of Commerce Awards and in 2018 Eurocham received a Certificate of Merit from Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc for its contribution to Vietnam’s development.

https://www.eurochamvn.org/