Trade promotion services and experts in Belgium

Our services 

The services of our missions abroad are available to your company. We provide up-to-date market information, facilitate establishing contacts and help in market access issues. 

The services provided by the missions are part of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs’ business services. The Ministry for Foreign Affairs is a member of Team Finland, a network of public sector actors providing internationalisation services to Finnish companies.

Market information

Belgium’s gross domestic product exceeded €700 billion in 2025, making the country one of the key engines of the European economy. Belgium is also Finland’s eighth-largest export market and offers a stable and predictable operating environment for Finnish expertise—particularly at a time when uncertainties in other markets are becoming more pronounced. There is demand for Finnish know-how especially in the fields of defence, nuclear power, and energy solutions.

 

Read more about the free Team Finland Market Opportunities online service, which provides information on sales leads, business opportunities and future trends, along with country reviews. New content is added to the service almost daily. Companies need to sign in with a business ID to use the service. 

Our experts

Jouko Leinonen
Head of Mission
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E-mail addresses are in the form: [email protected]. Scandinavian characters are replaced by: ä=a, ö=o, å=a.

The objectives of the Team Finland network

The aim of the network is to increase the activity of Finnish businesses in Belgium and Luxembourg. In Belgium, this applies in particular to the bioscience, service, information technology, logistics, environmental technology and energy sectors. In Luxembourg, the focus is on biosciences, renewable energy and logistics. Potential growth areas in Luxembourg also include environmental technology and the cleantech sector. The network aims likewise to promote investments in Finland.

The network is geared to actively foreseeing trends and new opportunities benefitting Finnish businesses, and invests in strengthening co-operation in research, development and innovation between the countries. Team Finland reinforces the positive image of Finland in Belgium and Luxembourg, for example, by highlighting actual examples of Finnish success stories. Finnish culture plays a significant role in creating Finland’s image, and it is used to highlight, for instance, the equality and solution orientation of Finnish society.

Finnish honorary consulates

Honorary consulates complement Finland’s network of missions abroad, which consists of embassies, consulates general, consulates and liaison offices. Honorary consuls are private individuals who carry out consular functions on a part-time basis without remuneration. An honorary consul can advise Finnish companies on how to get information on local business culture and find business partners, among other matters.