We work with concept development, communication and relationship building to strengthen Stockholm’s competitiveness in the life sciences. Do you have ideas that you would like to realize with us? Please get in touch!
Hagastaden in Stockholm is a unique area for life science research and entrepreneurship as a result of a high concentration of companies, healthcare professionals and universities in a central urban environment. In collaboration with property owners and other actors we work to attract companies and other businesses to the area. Our work has resulted in several new establishments and expansion of existing businesses in the district.
We annually organize a large number of seminars and other events to raise current subjects and issues, disseminate information and highlight different actors and initiatives. This enables people from universities, businesses and the public sector to meet, get inspired, gain new knowledge, develop their networks and build valuable relationships.
Stockholm Science City, UppsalaBIO, Norrbotten County Council and Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions (SKR) collaborate in the project Coordinated Implementation of Digital Products and Services. The purpose is to facilitate the implementation of digital tools in Swedish health care and to guide patients, healthcare providers and companies developing new digital tools.
Stockholm Science City and Kista Science City have initiated an annual photo contest on Instagram. The aim is to promote and raise awareness of the talent, curiosity and creativity in neighborhoods with great potential to contribute to Sweden's future. We hope that the initiative will contribute to increase interest in technology and science among youths from families with low educational background and thereby increase diversity in higher education. The contest is open for residents in the Järvafältet area in Stockholm i.e the city districts Akalla, Husby, Kista, Hjulsta, Tensta and Rinkeby.
Stockholm Science City and Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson's Foundation are the initiators of the annual Engelsberg symposium "Where is life science heading in the future?", which focuses on how new technologies affect research, healthcare, individuals and society.
Since 2013, we have arranged innovation competitions and hackathons with the aim to benefit society through innovative solutions to societal challenges, and to strengthen Stockholm’s competitiveness. This is achieved by promoting interaction and collaboration between participants from different industries and with different areas of expertice. The competitions contribute to the development and realization of new ideas. One concrete example is the company Meloq, which was formed after the founders participated in the Health Hack Academy 2014.
We are responsible for a searchable overview map where we, together with other actors, compile companies active within life science in the region.
We can help you to find what you are looking for depending on your needs. We act without any economic interests and hence, we are a neutral part that exists to help you. And we do it without charging anything.
To follow and cover the development of life science in the region we produce information materials about the universities, healthcare, businesses and larger investments in the County of Stockholm, Uppsala and Södermanland, in collaboration with other actors.
We developed the concept and initiated the activities of the H2 Health Hub, a co-working space and a meeting place for companies and others with interest in health tech. Shortly after the opening the H2 Health Hub evolved into a natural meeting point for the health tech community in Stockholm and strongly contributes to strengthening both the competitiveness of the companies and the region. Since 2017, H2 operates independently from Stockholm Science City.
We identified a need to merge the competence at the Stockholm universities Karolinska Institutet, KTH and Stockholm University in order to strengthen the research infrastructure of the region. A concept of an interdisciplinary center within life science was developed jointly by us and our scientific advisory board and then submitted to the principals of the three universities. The center was opened in 2010 with the name Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab). It quickly established at the international research arena and is home to more than 150 research groups (2017).
During 2017 Sweden ran to be host for the European Medicines Agency (EMA). We participated in the activities by compiling information about science, entrepreneurship and the physical environment in Stockholm. We also participated in the development of the EMAtoSweden.eu website and in the distribution of information in social media and other channels.
In order to connect ICT and life science, two of Stockholm's strengths, we designed and implemented the international conference Digital Health Days together with Kista Science City Foundation. The conference helped to strengthen the interdisciplinary environment in Stockholm and positioned Stockholm as an active and forward-looking life science region. Today the conference is run in another format by Stockholmsmässan and is since 2017 called MYiHealth.
We initiated and were project managers for the development of Sweden Science Net, an open database with information about ongoing academic research projects that makes it possible to search and analyse data. Today, the database is renamed SweCris and has been run by the Swedish Research Council since 2012. SweCris meets the universities need to easily review ongoing research and enables statistical analyses.
We coordinated an application for funding to develop a testbed for companies within radiotherapy on the initiative of Karolinska University Hospital. Today, the initiative has developed into an established resource called the National testbed for innovative radiotherapy, where healthcare and industry jointly contribute to the development of radiation therapy against cancer. The testbed is now run by Innovationsplatsen at Karolinska University Hospital as coordinator.
2006 the platform “Tools of Science” was established aiming to make the core facilities within life science at the universities in the Stockholm-Uppsala region more visible. The core facilities offer advanced equipment, services as well as expertise to both other researchers as well as the industry. The platform expanded to include service offerings from both healthcare as well as commercial companies. In 2019 the Foundation decided to discontinue the platform and simultanously a report compiling core facilities within life science in the Stockholm was published.
