Joint cluster management for a strong healthcare region

Outstanding medical and scientific research is conducted in the capital region. In conjunction with companies that are strong in innovation, this results in excellence and is further promoted by the Cluster. The Cluster concentrates on fast-developing topics in order to take the pole position and increase the visibility of these innovations’ added value for the healthcare system. The capital region is pioneering translational medicine, in which research results are quickly and systematically translated into prevention, diagnostics, and treatments.

Our strategic goals

• Enhance excellence in life sciences, medicine, and the technical disciplines and apply it in innovative technologies and processes
• Continue strengthening translational and precision medicine
• Establish sustainable research, development, and production processes

Innovation often starts at the point where the interaction of stakeholders from different (sub)sectors results in debate and initiates new collaborations. Cluster management provides effective structures, formats, and interfaces for purposes of information and matchmaking. Close cooperation and functional networks support the transfer of new ideas from research into innovative application.

Our strategic goals

• Make the Cluster more usable as a networking platform for stakeholders
• Deepen the dialogue between Berlin and Brandenburg
• Reinforce networks in the healthcare industry
• Generate cross-cluster innovations
• Provide support for crisis management

The German capital region is clearly Europe’s top spot in terms of digital health. The Cluster supports stakeholders as they harness the potential of healthcare data and digital solutions for care, science, and the healthcare industry. This includes promoting interoperability and data integration, as well as ensuring the protection and security of patient information. Employee and company competencies related to the use and application of digital healthcare innovations will also receive support.

Our strategic goals

• Promote and leverage the potential of data science in research and industry
• Support interoperability and data integration
• Make data available for quality improvement in the healthcare sector
• Increasingly apply digital solutions to products and processes
• Strengthen competency in applying and using healthcare innovations

Integrated care is the focus of future healthcare. Collaboration and digital networking among all specialist disciplines and sectors can be advanced in the spirit of a real-world laboratory in Berlin-Brandenburg. The Cluster leverages the capital region’s potential in order to test sustainable and future-oriented care approaches, cooperation strategies, and logistics solutions. In this way, the capital region will be able to attain a model character on both the national and international levels, thereby providing momentum for other regions.

Our strategic goals

• Establish and expand cross- and trans-sectoral supply chains
• Develop innovative approaches for prevention, treatment, rehabilitation and care
• Develop and test new mobility and logistics solutions
• Leverage strengths in prevention and care for medical and healthcare tourism

The Cluster helps its stakeholders to counteract any shortages of qualified employees and to further increase the region’s appeal. After all, investment and talent are the forces behind the development of appealing life science regions all over the world. The success factors of applicant marketing, recruitment, and employee retainment increasingly include attractive opportunities, flexible working hours, a stimulating and collaborative working environment, sustainability, and gender equality. To ensure the capital region’s future performance, the Cluster focuses on the healthcare industry’s qualified workforce in the Working environments focal area.

Our strategic goals

• Test new forms of work and design them to support health
• Inspire people to seek employment in the healthcare industry
• Support companies in acquiring and retaining skilled employees
• Encourage dialogue between training institutes, social partners and companies in the healthcare industry