European Tech Embassy

EuropeanTech Embassy

Brussels

An embassy in Brussels for the people working on the future of European technology.

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Rue du Luxembourg 15, 1050 Brussels 4 min walk to the European Parliament 4 min walk to Bruxelles-Luxembourg station
Why we are here

An embassy for the
future of European tech

The European Tech Embassy is for the people working on the future of European technology, and for the people writing the rules that future will run on. Founders, researchers, investors and institutions need to be in the same room often enough to understand each other, so the Embassy gives them a permanent address a few hundred metres from the Parliament, the Council and the Commission, and gives international teams a European home instead of a visitor's badge.

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Join our
Tech Embassy

Your request goes straight to Martin Luxemburg at the Embassy. We answer within two working days.

Where we are

Inside the
European Quarter

Historic postcard of Place du Luxembourg in Brussels, looking down the street towards the Gare du Luxembourg.
M M M RUE DE LA LOI RUE BELLIARD RUE DU LUXEMBOURG RUE DE TRÈVES RUE WIERTZ BOULEVARD DU RÉGENT PARC LÉOPOLD CINQUANTENAIRE SQUARE DE MEEÛS PL. DU LUXEMBOURG European Commission BERLAYMONT · 1.1 KM · 14 MIN Council of the European Union EUROPA · JUSTUS LIPSIUS · 13 MIN EEAS SCHUMAN · 15 MIN EESC & Committee of the Regions RUE BELLIARD 99 · 6 MIN European Parliament PLACE DU LUXEMBOURG · 4 MIN Bruxelles-Luxembourg TRAIN · AIRPORT IN 25 MIN TRÔNE · 5 MIN MAELBEEK SCHUMAN YOU ARE HERE EUROPEAN TECH EMBASSY RUE DU LUXEMBOURG 15, 1050 BRUSSELS 300 M · 4 MIN WALK 1 KM · 13 MIN WALK 300 m N
Schematic map of the European Quarter, drawn to scale from the Embassy's door. The dashed circles are 300 metres and 1 kilometre away.
Developments

How the Embassy
will look

The house is being fitted out as a working embassy for technology.

Arrive → Connect → Discover → Share → Assemble → Work → Meet → Communicate → Retreat

Impression of the arrival corridor, with green digital screens for room booking and a virtual guide set against restored stone walls and a linear light running the length of the ceiling.
Impression of the glazed courtyard with a glass roof, planting along the walls, timber benches, small round tables and a large media wall.
Impression of two glazed communication booths marked Signal 01 and Signal 03 beside a support hub with shelves and a service counter.
Impression of a room with a large data wall showing a map of Europe, an interactive table with stools, and a glass panel listing the guided services.
Impression of a long table under a chandelier in a room with a carved chimneypiece, a green wall panel carrying the Embassy identity and a large screen.
Impression of a private meeting room with an oval table, upholstered chairs, linear lighting and tall windows onto the street.
Impression of a workspace with desks, task chairs, plants and shelving, with the Embassy identity on the wall.
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Who stands behind it

The founding partners

The Embassy is carried by five organisations that put their people, their networks and their name behind it.

Unknown

Impact venture builder and campus operator from The Hague, behind Unknown Campus Titaan and the Binckhaven impact campus. Unknown initiates the Embassy and runs it day to day, bringing the ventures, the programmes and the operating model of a campus into a Brussels townhouse.

JOIST Innovation Park

An innovation park in Larissa, Greece, where startups, corporates and research teams share one campus. JOIST connects the Embassy to southern Europe's founders and to the practical business of turning research into companies outside the usual capitals.

Urban Life

Urban Life brings the built environment side of the Embassy, the house itself and the neighbourhood around it, so that the address works as a place people return to rather than a room they book once.

Adra

The AI, Data and Robotics Association, based a few streets away on Rue Belliard, is the private side of the European Commission's AI, Data and Robotics partnership under Horizon Europe and the entry point for organisations that want to help shape those fields in Europe.

28DIGITAL

Formerly EIT Digital, 28DIGITAL is the European network that backs deep tech ventures and trains the people who build them, from its master school to its scale-up programmes. It gives the Embassy reach into innovation communities in every member state.

Address

European Tech Embassy
Rue du Luxembourg 15
1050 Brussels, Belgium

Getting here

Bruxelles-Luxembourg station, 4 minutes on foot. Trône metro on lines 2 and 6, 5 minutes. Direct train from Brussels Airport in about 25 minutes.

By Unknown, JOIST Innovation Park, Urban Life, Adra and 28DIGITAL.