ADDRESSING EUROPE'S HEALTH PRIORITIES

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Our Story

The Challenge

The Approach

The Ambition

Life-changing ideas become reality right here. We bring together the brightest minds from the worlds of business, research, education and healthcare delivery to answer some of the biggest health challenges facing Europe.

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Europe faces a turning point in health. An ageing population, the rising burden of chronic disease, and growing multi-morbidity are all placing pressure on health systems across Europe.

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Our vast community, including approximately 100 world-class member organisations, works across borders to connect the three worlds of business, research and education. We call this meeting point the ‘knowledge triangle’ because it’s where life-changing innovation happens.

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Our ambition is to enable people in Europe to live longer, healthier lives. Our work goes beyond conventional approaches to disease management and disease prevention. We are building and growing businesses to create products and services that progress healthcare in Europe, while strengthening our economy.

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What we do

We create an environment where the brightest minds can explore new ideas and find practical resources to create products and services rooted in innovation. We’re activating a network of trailblazers to break down barriers, challenge convention and put healthcare solutions in people’s hands.

Product and service development

We initiate projects to address problems with solutions -whether that is a new type of diagnostic, a device or therapy that can help to better manage a disease or infrastructure to improve the organisation of care. We bring the right people together to turn ideas into commercially viable products and services.

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Programmes

Our programmes are designed to strengthen the healthcare innovation ecosystem so that we can be truly transformational as a collective. We provide continuous learning opportunities for healthcare stakeholders, and support businesses to build, grow and expand.

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Events and opportunities

We have a packed schedule of regional and international events and opportunities for you to meet, engage, and collaborate with the vast and vibrant EIT Health community.

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Think Tank

Our EIT Health Think Tank engages healthcare thought-leaders across regions and disciplines in the latest debates and decisions to help clear the pathway to innovation and facilitate a more sustainable healthcare future.

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Product and service development
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Our Impact

2998+
start-ups and scale-ups supported
(2016-2023)
65k+
students and professionals trained
(2016-2023)
123
products and services launched to solve unmet health needs
(2016-2023)

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Our Spotlight series tells the story of some of our most impactful work to date and gets under the skin of the cutting-edge technologies we’re bringing to European citizens.

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Our Members

Read more about the 100+ EIT Health members, consisting of leading organisations across the worlds of business, research, education and healthcare delivery.

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News and Views

Read the latest news and opinions from thought-leaders in healthcare.

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New article lays framework for DMD evaluation in EU

New article lays framework for DMD evaluation in EU

An EIT Health-led article published in Nature.

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New data shows AI innovation needs skills beyond coding

New data shows AI innovation needs skills beyond coding

The largest live dataset of AI start-up talent analysed.

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Europe's top health start-ups take centre stage: EIT Health Catapult winners are revealed at HLTH Europe

Europe's top health start-ups take centre stage: EIT Health Catapult winners are revealed at HLTH Europe

2025 Catapult programme winners announced.

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