The RIKEN Europe Symposium 2024 “Science and technologies, platforms and collaboration for researching human physiology and diseases: enabling organoids” was held on 14th February 2024 in Brussel, chaired by Dr. Ichioka Toshiyasu, Director of the RIKEN Europe Office, at the presence of Dr. Naka Makiko, Executive Director of RIKEN, and His Excellence Aikawa Kazutoshi, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Mission of Japan to the European Union.