Baltic Sea Health Region and Bridge-BSR Round Table, Gdansk, Poland

The Bridge-BSR Round Table is a dialogue between regional decision and opinion makers and the ScanBalt BioRegion Community in order to implement recommendations from the Bridge-BSR Innovation Agenda (EU FP 7) and promote the EU Baltic Sea Health Region.

Bridge-BSR is an EU FP 7 project which aims to strengthen collaboration between SME´s and Academia in ScanBalt BioRegion. An over arching objective is to promote more and better coordinated investments between EU Framework programs, EU structural and cohesion funds, EU Innovation programs and national and regional public and private financing.

Partners in Bridge-BSR are BioCon Valley, Bioforum Oulu, Estonian Biotech Association, IPPT-Pan Warsaw, Medicon Valley Alliance, Latvian Biotech Association, Steinbeis Team North East and ScanBalt (coordinator).

The EU Commission adopted the “EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region” on October 29 2009 together with a detailed Action Plan. The Action Plan specifically indicates a flagship project for the development of the Baltic Sea Region into a globally leading and prosperous "Health Region" using the ScanBalt BioRegion as a model. The flagship is entitled the "Baltic Sea Health Region" (BSHR). Read more about BSHR at www.scanbalt.org/healthregion