BioM is a not-forprofit service company located in Martinsried/Munich that aims to foster Bavaria's Biotech. BioM offers several services, in particular for small and medium-sized biotech enterprises to help accelerating biomedical innovation.

IESE Business School is dedicated to training professional managers, with international educational programmes, including those with a particular focus on innovation management in the Health sector. IESE Centre for Research in Healthcare Innovation Management (CRHIM), created in 2012, builds on over 30 years of expertise in the sector. It enables public and private R&I projects to become a reference centre for health innovation management. Specialist areas include: Health management, health economics, business development, executive education, capacity-building activities.

Imperial College London is a world leading, science-based university that develops the next generation of researchers, scientists and academics through collaboration across disciplines, harnessing science and innovation to tackle global challenges.

Karolinska Institutet is one of the world's leading medical Universities. Our mission is to contribute to the improvement of human health through research and education. Our research covers the entire medical field, from basic molecular biological research, to clinical epidemiology and nursing science. Since 1901 the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has selected the Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine. With our close relationship to the clinical world, a well-established infrastructure, a unique innovation system and financial stability, Karolinska Institutet has excellent prerequisites for sustaining high-quality research and education.

Newcastle University has always focused on academic excellence and the impact of their academic work. They seek to address some of the key global societal issues through research in 3 areas: ageing; social renewal; sustainability. Newcastle University collaborates with a range of partners and strategic initiatives. These partnerships help to extend the University’s influence and reinforce their ties with the city, the region and beyond.

RWTH Aachen University and its hospital (focus on patient-oriented medicine & nursing care) provide leading research, innovation and education within the core themes of EIT Health. Our industry-need-driven competence centres foster entrepreneurship

IRCCS S.D.N. SpA is an Italian leading provider of medical imaging and laboratory diagnostic services with five centres located in Napoli, in the South of Italy. One of the primary purposes of S.D.N. is the integration between Diagnostic Imaging and Molecular Diagnostics applied in four research areas: oncology, cardiology, neurology, nutritional doisorders and endocrine metabolic diseases. The Institute has also the capability to perform all diagnostic imaging procedures (PET, SPECT, TC, MR, Ultrasound optical imaging, bone densitometry) in small animal models.

With over 240-year-old tradition, Semmelweis University (SU) is one of Europe’s leading centres for research and innovation in biomedical sciences and related fields. Based on the R&D index the SU is one of the country’s best Elite Research-Universities employing more than 1100 staff scientists in 140 active research teams. As the largest independent health care provider in Hungary, SU is providing excellent capacities for high quality testing and for the implementation of research results. SU is an international specialized public university with five faculties: Dentistry, Health and Public Services, Health Sciences, Medicine, Pharmacy. Study programs range from undergraduate to doctorate level and are offered in three languages at five faculties. The SU Innovation Centre was established in 2013 as a central university department in charge of R&D administration and support. It deals with technology transfer, third party funding, fundraising, knowledge management and entrepreneurship.

Sorbonne University is a multidisciplinary, research-intensive and world-class academic institution. Firmly rooted in the heart of Paris, it is committed to the success of its students and devoted to meeting the scientific challenges of the 21st century. Sorbonne Université is a multidisciplinary research university created on January 1st 2018 by the merging of the Universities Paris-Sorbonne and Pierre et Marie Curie. It is made of three faculties, in Sciences, Medicine and Humanities, and trains 54,000 students, among who 4,700 PhD students and 10,200 international students.

Trinity College Dublin is Ireland's leading University and has a number of activities relevant for EIT Health: School of Nursing & Midwifery, with a focus on Ageing & Intellectual Disability, Mental Health, Population & Community Health and Improving Health & Wellbeing of Women, Children & Families; Trinity Centre for Practice & Healthcare Innovation; Bioengineering & Advanced Materials: Trinity College Institute for Neuroscience & Global Brain Health Institute; TILDA - Irish longitudinal ageing study; School of Computer Sciences & Statistics with expertise in AI, digital content technology, augmented reality and statistics & data science; Learnovate: Innovation in EdTech and learning technology; ADAPT: Digital content and media innovation; Tangent, Trinity's Ideas Workspace: innovation and entrepreneurship education and start-up support; Trinity Business School Centre for Social Innovation; Science Gallery.

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid health activities cover a wide variety of topics, being the Biotech initiative its flagship: a stable interdisciplinar environment grouping UPM research groups with high expertise and qualified infrastructure to address major challenges in Biomedicine and Health. With special focus in ICT for health, UPM has capabilities and R&D results in all EIT Health areas in order to transfer advanced ICT and Health solutions and technologies to the Industry partners, to validate those solutions in our Living Labs, to promote the start-up of new ventures issued by UPM community and regional Health ecosystem, and to offer high quality and experienced educational programmes.

The main research areas related to EIT Health at the University of Barcelona are: life and medical sciences, the experimental sciences (physics, mathematics, geology and chemistry), economics, business, law, humanities and educational and behavioural sciences. The University of Barcelona has a strong focus on Medical and Health Sciences (3,244 articles were written on this topic in the last six years, half of them in the first quartile, and 48 patents in the same period). UB has also a diverse network of University hospitals such as Hospital Clínic, Bellvitge Hospital and Sant Joan de Déu, and over 10 associated hospitals in the area of Barcelona. Additionally, there are several associated Research Institutes such as IDIBAPS, IDIBELL, ISGlobal, among others. Specialist areas include: nutrition, cancer, genetics, medicine (all specialities), nursing, pharmacy, physics, biology, chemistry, mathematics, prevention, drug discovery, bioengineering, law, economics and business development.

University of Coimbra (UC) is a reference in higher education and R&D in Portugal, due to the quality of the courses taught at its eight colleges and to the advances achieved in pure and applied research in various scientific domains and on technology related areas. The offer in technological research makes UC an undeniable reference in R&D in Portugal, which highlights the excellence of work developed by the R&D units of UC, namely in the fields of life sciences. UC offers advanced entrepreneurship education trainings programs in different areas that bind to technology, where it was considered by EC as one of the 20 most inspiring cases in Europe. UC stands out also on technology transfer being involved in the promotion of several successful initiatives, like IPN Incubator, TECBis- Business accelerator unit, Biocant, and in the creation of more than 200 technological spin-offs, the majority of them healthcare related businessess. UC U-Multirank scored “very good” (the maximum classification) on Research, Technology Transfer and Internationalisation.

With over 40,000 students and more than 9,500 employees, UCPH – founded 1479 – is among the largest comprehensive universities in Europe. It is ranked No. 7 in Europe and no. 39 in the world in the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2015. The University has an international environment where ambitious researchers and students strive for new knowledge and insights. UCPH is placed at the centre of a stimulation entrepreneurial ecosystem in the Greater Copenhagen Area.

The University of Lisbon (ULisboa) is the largest and most prestigious University in Portugal (ARWU), bringing together areas of knowledge such as science, technology, art studies, humanities, including a broad and multidisciplinary cluster of research units. It has almost 50 000 students (4000 are in doctoral programmes), about 470 programmes and 3720 academic staff and researchers across 18 faculties and institutes, as well as 76 research units. ULisboa reaches about 1/3 of the competitive funding for research within Portuguese higher education institutions. It holds a reputed participation in H2020, within all areas of research. ULisboa is committed to promote the learning mobility of young people. Entrepreneurship as a success key for university education and research has been put into practice through the creation of innovation and entrepreneurship courses involving enterprises. Recently, incubation structures within ULisboa have successfully promoted 95 start-ups.

The University of Oxford is one of the leading research and teaching Universities in the United Kingdom and Europe. The Medical Sciences division has major global collaborations across the breadth of biomedical sciences.

Estonian Genome Center at the University of Tartu is population based biobank, consisting of samples and rich eHealth data (from national registers) of 52 000 gene donors with genomics core-facility and strong competence in genomics, metabolomics etc.

MUL is among the largest state-owned medical Universities in Poland. It has reached a leading position in the following research areas: immunology, molecular biology, genetics of homeostasis disorders, oncology, hypertension and endocrinology. Within the last two years, young researchers from MUL were considered leaders in areas such as cardiology, oncology, immunology and dermatology.

The UGA in Grenoble is a leading University of Science Technology and Health. Within 80 multidisciplinary laboratories, the UGA is developing outstanding research at national and international level. The UGA offers a wide range of training courses, from bachelor to doctorate, in close connection with the socio-professional environment to promote the integration of its students.

The first university established in the Nordic countries founded in 1477, is an international research university. Uppsala University is ranked #61 in the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2014. World-class research and high at UU benefit society and business on a global level. The University is characterized by diversity and breadth, with international frontline research at nine faculties including 40,000 students, 1,800 teachers and researchers whereof about 670 professors. Comprehensive peer reviews and university rankings consistently show that research at UU is of the highest international standard. Research, education and innovation serve as guiding concepts in connection with cooperation with the business community and society at large

The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology is a scientific foundation of seven of Catalonia’s research centres of excellence. Its main objective is to build new scientific collaborations among these centres, thus giving impulse to multidisciplinary projects to push ever further the frontiers of knowledge. Its scientific community is made up of members of the participating research centres: Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), The Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO), Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia(ICIQ), Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), Institute for High Energy Physics (IFAE) and Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona). Areas of specialization: Biomedicine research, bioengineering in health, bionano research, genomics, bioengineering, photonics, chemistry, nanoscience & nanotechnology, physics and biomedicine.

The Institute of Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) conducts excellent interdisciplinary research between engineering and life sciences in order to generate new knowledge and join fields such as nanomedicine, biophysics, biotechnology, tissue engineering and the applications of health information technology. IBEC’s specialization areas are 3D Bioprinting, organ on a chip, microfluidics & lab on a chip, iPSCs for disease modeling and drug testing, HR microscopy at micro/nanoscale, advanced signal & data processing, nanorobotics, fabrication of biomaterials and characterization, biofunctionalization, engineering of bioactive molecules, biosensors, micro/nano electronics, neuroengineering and big data.

Hospital Clínic de Barcelona is a university hospital founded in 1906 that belongs to the Catalan Public Hospital Network (XHUP).We include almost all medical and surgical specialties, and are active in the areas of ​​Patient Care, Research and Education, either directly or through related companies.

SJD Barcelona Children's Hospital is a private, non-profit institution that is dedicated to public service. It is a member of the Brothers Hospitallers of Saint John of God, which manages more than 300 healthcare centres in 50 countries around the world and serves the most vulnerable groups in hospitals, health centres, social services and religious communities.