ECOS History

First beginnings as the project "EntwicklungsCenter OSnabrueck" for regional employment development

Wilhelm Meemken founds ECOS Gesellschaft für Entwicklung und Consulting Osnabrück GmbH with 4 other shareholders

ECOS initiates the first German-Japanese regional economic cooperation with the cities of Mühlheim-Essen-Oberhausen (MEO-NET) and Nagasaki Prefecture. Later this will be a model for the Local-to-Local program of JETRO

Relocation to the C.U.T. Center for Environmental Technology in Osnabrück, for which ECOS has also developed a sustainable energy concept

ECOS opens its own representative office in Kawasaki Science Park (KSP); representative is Daijo Tsunoda (previously Mitsubishi Corp.)

ECOS office in Japan moves to Yokohama

Initiation of the German Eco Housing Initiative (GEHI)

ECOS initiates first German joint stand at the Japan Home and Building Show (JHBS)

The German-Japanese Business Forum initiated by ECOS takes place for the first time at the Hannover Messe

ECOS initiates the German-Japanese Environmental Dialogue Forum; the first edition takes place in Osnabrück

On the initiative of ECOS, Japan becomes the partner country of the Hanover Fair for the first time

Yasushi Iwamatsu (previously Mitsubishi Corp.) becomes new ECOS representative in Japan; ECOS office moves to Tokyo/Roppongi

ECOS together with the Wuppertal Institute and the Institute of Energy Economics, Japan (IEEJ) establishes the German-Japanese Energy Transformation Council (GJETC)

ECOS opens an office in Berlin

ECOS opens a representative office in Fukuoka (West Japan)