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Transform Healthcare. Scale in Essen.

Can your solution in AI, MedTech, or digital health transform how hospitals deliver and manage care? Whether it’s predictive analytics, robotic surgery, digital therapeutics, or smart hospital systems—join EWG’s Health Scale-up Challenge and tap into their Market Entry Program, offering funding, clinical networks, and business support to expand into the German and European markets, with Essen as your launchpad.

Who can take part?

International Scale-ups in AI, MedTech, and digital health with market-ready solutions or advanced prototypes, an existing customer base, and clear ambitions to enter the German market by opening a branch or relocating to Essen.

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Executive Summary

With its Market Entry Program, EWG – Essen Economic Development Agency enables international Scale-ups to successfully enter and scale in the German healthcare market by leveraging Essen’s unique clinical, academic, and business ecosystem.

Solution Space

EWG is technology-open and seeks solutions across AI-driven diagnostics, digital therapeutics, smart hospital systems, MedTech, and novel cross-industry health innovations. The focus is not on ideation, but on scaling validated solutions into clinical and commercial use.

Why Participate

Scale-ups gain

  • structured market-entry support
  • relocation assistance
  • access to hospitals and research institutions, financial incentives, and direct business partners
  • financial support (up to 10,000 €)

Process

The participation process is structured to provide fast clarity and a fair evaluation for all applicants:

  1. Application via Platform Submission of mandatory questions and pitch deck.
  2. Get-to-Know Interviews 30-minute virtual sessions to assess solution fit, market-entry readiness, and collaboration potential.
  3. Collaboration Kickoff Individual sessions to explore relocation, funding, partnerships, and relocation pathways.
  4. Market Entry Program Tailored support including regulatory guidance, business development, ecosystem access, and funding instruments.