We want to promote innovation across borders; helping bring new products to new markets, accelerating the adoption of health products, services and concepts and, ultimately, improving the lives of citizens in European and beyond.
EIT Health’s Bridgehead brings together European health entrepreneurs who want to grow their business beyond their home market with the world’s top incubators and accelerators who have the expertise and resources to make it happen.
We will help match your scale-up with an incubator or accelerator from EIT Health’s approved network – we call these organisations our Catalysers. Together, you will plan how to access new markets quickly and decisively, tap into local networks of partners and clients, access infrastructure and understand new regulatory systems.
The programme is split into:
Whichever programme you successfully apply for, you will be given the seasoned expertise, insight and support needed to help realise your business ambitions.
Applications for the second 2021 intake are open now!
Deadline: 14 September 2021
We want to promote innovation across borders; helping bring new products to new markets, accelerating the adoption of health products, services and concepts and, ultimately, improving the lives of citizens in European and beyond.
BRIDGEHEAD EUROPE
Driving the expansion of your scale-up venture from one European market into another through partners with local knowledge
BRIDGEHEAD GLOBAL
Helping you expand your European health scale-up to markets, outside of Europe such as the US, Canada, China, Japan and South Korea amongst others
Using our matchmaking process, choose where to work and with which Catalyser to best achieve your goals
Make the most of a bespoke, personalised service created for you to work in partnership with our Catalysers
A unique opportunity to be introduced to potential partners and access expert knowledge of the local health ecosystem in participating countries
Progress with setting up local sales teams, getting distribution agreement signed-off, developing pricing strategies and more
A grant of €30,000 (Europe) or €40,000 (Global) to use with our network of handpicked and trusted Catalysers
Embed and raise the visibility of your scale-up in a unique and vibrant EIT Health ecosystem of more than 140 partners
EUROPEAN CATALYSERS
Accelerators, incubators and clusters with a proven track record in building, accelerating and scaling-up healthcare companies.
The experts connect industries, corporates, entrepreneurs, specialists, commercial partners and mentors to provide unique access to knowledge, infrastructure and resources to accelerate growth across an interconnected continent.
GLOBAL CATALYSERS
An EIT Health-vetted network of committed European partners strongly networked and operating within markets outside of Europe.
The experts offer the same level of enthusiastic and engaged collaboration and support with the difference of providing the opportunity to expand into global markets including the USA, Canada, Israel, China, Japan and others.
Each of our Catalysers have unique expertise and experience. You can find out more about each of them and where they operate in our Catalysers Catalogue.
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To qualify for Bridgehead Europe or Global, your company must:
Financial obligations: There is a 6% success fee of your company’s revenue in the new market, capped at three times the amount of the grant amount or three years after completing the programme, whichever comes first.
To learn more about the programme and find out if it is right for you, you can view one of our recorded Bridgehead webinars from earlier this year:
“Bridgehead opens doors – giving you access to the right people and right organisations who can have the biggest impact in developing a market entry plan for a new market.”
Dr. Aida Nazarikhorram
Co-founder and CCO, Lux AI
“Through the collaboration with EIT Health's Bridgehead programme, our company was able to scale up and investigate the Dutch market in depth and to make plans for collaboration with potential partners.”
Nikolay Todorov
Marketing and Customer Relations Director, Smart Sort
See the Bridgehead call document for more detailed information on the programme. This document explains, for example, that you can apply to both Bridgehead Europe and Global, but you can only participate and be chosen for one.
Download the Bridgehead call document
Applications for the second 2021 intake are now open, with the submission deadline of 14 September 2021.
Submit an application through our portal by 14 September 2021 to qualify for the next intake. Have your company, team and product/service information to hand, as you will need it to apply.
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