EIT Health Bridgehead: Second Intake 2021
EIT Health’s Bridgehead brings together European health entrepreneurs who want to grow their business beyond their home market with Europe’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:
- Bridgehead Europe - Driving the expansion of your scale-up venture from one European market into another other 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
Whichever programme you successfully apply for, you will be given the seasoned expertise, insight and support needed to help realise your business ambitions. 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.
Why get involved
- Flexible. Using our matchmaking process, choose where to work and with which Catalyser to best achieve your goals.
- Tailor-made. Make the most of a bespoke, personalized service created for you to work in partnership with our Catalysers.
- Soft-landing. A unique opportunity to be introduced to potential partners and access expert knowledge of the local health ecosystem in participating countries.
- Results-oriented. Progress with setting up local sales teams, getting distribution agreements signed-off, developing pricing strategies and more.
- Funding. A grant of €30,000 (Europe) or €40,000 (Global) to use with our network of handpicked and trusted Catalysers.
- Unique ecosystem. Embed and raise the visibility of your scale-up in a unique and vibrant EIT Health ecosystem of more than 140 partners.
Who should apply?
To qualify for Bridgehead Europe or Global, your company must:
- Be registered in Europe
- Sell a product or services in at least one market in Europe and be ready to open up a new market
- Deliver innovative, transformative products or services in biotech, medtech or digital health
- Have fewer than 250 full time employees
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.
Apply now!
Have your company, team and product/service information to hand, as you will need it to apply.
Application deadline: 14 September 2021
Want to find out more?
Visit the Bridgehead website here!
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:
