• New business in the senior economy: BSR Interreg Osiris Innovation Program

    Do you have a business idea related to silver economy? Apply to BSR Interreg Osiris Innovation Program, targeted to teams and startups that have a business idea related to age-friendly, smart living environments. The Innovation Program (from 6 April to 15 May 2021) aims to identify innovations and innovators in the silver economy and to

  • Interested in creating new medical technology? Apply for Biodesign Innovation Online Course

    Biodesign Innovation Online Course (3 ECTS) in May 2021 is your opportunity to learn how need-driven innovation and commercialization of medical technology (medtech) works. During the course, together with your interdisciplinary team, you will create a concept and a business case for your own medical technology. Your solution addresses a real and validated need in

  • The Fair Health Data Challenge

    Does your organisation have a health and well-being solution based on data sharing and fair principles? With The Fair Health Data Challenge, The Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra is looking for examples from all over Europe to show the way to adopting shared rules for a fair data economy. The aim is to identify existing or

  • Nordea Investor Speed Dating

    Startups/scaleups, check out Nordea Investor Speed Dating events and apply asap: 14/4 Startups looking for funding (seed funding) 5/5 Scaleups looking for funding (A-round and beyond)

  • Opportunity for mentoring for female-led health startups

    Calling female-led health startups! Global-EU Women Entrepreneurs & Innovators in Health Sector event connects startups with top mentors. It\'s a unique opportunity for global-EU women-led startups to participate in personal high-level mentoring sessions, and an inspiring opening event for everyone interested in the topic of female entrepreneurship. Sign up by 19 April for • An

  • Open Call for the IN-4-AHA Living Lab Testing Scheme

    The IN-4-AHA Open Call provides testing opportunities and business coaching for innovative and scalable solutions. User-centred cross-border testing of the five selected innovations will be done in e-environments and physical spaces in Finland and Spain. It is a unique opportunity  - apply by 14 May! Do you have an innovative solution for active and healthy ageing?

  • NewCo Accelerator Arctic15 Pitching Competition

    The competition will focus on pre-seed to seed stage startups from the Nordics and Baltics. Startups will be judged by a panel of international investors and experts. There will be three stages to the competition: the application period, public Top30 voting, and the final Top15 live pitching at the Arctic15 online event on 1 June.

  • Finnish-German partnering for joint innovation funding

    The event is on 26 May (11am–12.30pm Finnish time) but please note that the registration deadline for the pitching is 18 May. Business Finland and German ZIM programme are looking for inspiring market-oriented joint projects between small and medium-sized enterprises in Finland and Germany. This time also research institutes in Finland can participate in the

  • Nordic AMPlify 2021: Accelerated U.S. Market Entry

    Nordic AMPlify\'s 2021 Program offers Nordic digital health and medtech companies the opportunity to significantly shorten their time to market by partnering with 5 U.S. health systems with over 100 hospitals and 5 leading early stage VCs. Join the free virtual Launch Workshop on 25 May (sign up by 21 May) to hear an insider’s

  • Call for applications: Neuroscience Partnering Day

    Join Neuroscience Partnering Day – partnering & matchmaking event on 11 November 2021 and discover new business opportunities and R&D partners in the pharmaceutical space. The goal of the event is to create meaningful connections between Finnish neuroscience innovators and global pharmaceutical companies. Apply by 28 May 2021 to the event hosted by Business Finland

  • Call for new SPARK Finland projects

    SPARK Finland calls for projects targeting on new solutions in health tech and life science space. Eligible applicants are from Helsinki, Tampere, Turku, Kuopio and Joensuu regions – faculty, scientists, clinicians, students – from SPARK\'s affiliated institutions. Selection criteria: address an unmet need in area of life science, medicine and health utilize a novel approach (and possibly