Open for participation
Current projects where you can still join and participate in our open innovation programs.


Smart Shifts: Boosting Digital Adoption Among the Insured
Shape IKK classic’s “insurance app of the future”—without big marketing or massive rebuilds! Cut down on phone calls, face-to-face visits, and paperwork through clever app enhancements. Let’s simplify workflows, boost engagement, improve app analytics, or deliver a “tour guide” tailored to the needs of IKK’s customers, ensuring frequent reuse. #HealthTech #DigitalHealth #InnovateTogether #ShapingHealthOfTomorrow


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? This challenge is open only to scale-ups that are planning to relocate to Essen or open a branch in the region. #Health #DigitalHealth #EssenHealth #VentureScaling #InnovateTogether #AIinHealth #E-Health
Ongoing
Projects currently in progress where participation has closed. Follow along to see the results!


Venture Clienting mit Boehringer Ingelheim
Boehringer Ingelheim sucht innovative Startups und Scale-ups, die gemeinsam an Innovationen in den Bereichen Digital Twins, AI-Driven Data Analytics und Digital Showrooms arbeiten wollen. #VentureClient #AI #DigitalTwin #DigitalShowroom


Venture Clienting mit AbbVie Deutschland GmbH & Co.KG: Innovation für nachhaltige Entsorgung
AbbVie sucht innovative Lösungsanbieter, die Recycling und Circular Economy im Medizin-Bereich auf das nächste Level bringen wollen. Der erste Use Case konzentriert sich auf Medizinprodukte. Ob Sensibilisierung, Prozessoptimierung oder Recyclingtechnologien – zeigt uns, wie eure Ideen eine nachhaltige Verwertungskette schaffen. Nutzt die Chance, mit AbbVie zusammenzuarbeiten und euer Unternehmen in einer starken Partnerschaft zu skalieren! Wer kann teilnehmen? Start-ups, Scale-ups, Beratungs- und Technologieunternehmen, die maximal 10 Jahre alt sind #VentureClient #CircularEconomy #Recycling

Venture Clienting mit amberra: Beyond-Banking-Lösungen
amberra sucht innovative Startups und Scale-ups, die im Rahmen des Venture-Client-Programms gemeinsam an Innovationen in den Bereichen Cybersecurity, mentale Gesundheit und Finanzbildung arbeiten wollen. #VentureClient #BeyondBanking #Cybersecurity #MentaleGesundheit #Finanzbildung


Guardians of Health: Crafting the Future of Dread Disease Support
Join the leading German Insurance Provider, Hallesche! We're on a quest for groundbreaking solutions that offer more than just financial support for severe diseases such as cancer, heart attack, or dementia: How can we support affected persons and their relatives with preventative diagnostics, care or other novel support services? Deadline: July 9, 2024, 23:59 PM CEST. #PatientSupport #DreadDiseaseInsurance #HealthcareInnovation
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Transformation in Healthcare: Reshaping Sustainability with GLS Bank
Unlock the future of sustainable healthcare! Join GLS Bank's challenge to revolutionize the sustainability transformation of nursing homes and healthcare facilities. Dive deep into the ESG criteria, identify real needs, and craft a holistic consulting concept. Your innovative solutions can reshape the SMEs healthcare landscape, fostering long-term sustainability alongside GLS Bank's commitment to positive change.


Generative AI as a personal agent for knowledge management processes
Unleash the power of Artificial Intelligence and generative models in the pharmaceutical industry together with Boehringer Ingelheim by developing personalized AI agents that support health workers in knowledge management, research & content creation. Shape the future of human-machine interaction and master demanding challenges in the pharmaceutical industry together.


Enabling Cancer Therapy at Home
Join Gerresheimer's challenge to extend the healthcare value chain and provide cancer patients with the best possible therapy at home. Create or apply digital services and solutions that enhance home care for cancer patients, addressing the unmet needs of stakeholders from the complex healthcare system. #DecentralizedTherapy #CancerHomeCare #PatientEmpowerment


Beat the Heat: Leveraging Scientific and Technological Solutions to Protect Vulnerable Populations
Partner with Bayer in the fight against consequences of heatwaves and their impact on vulnerable populations & those in need of care. We're looking for innovative solutions that leverage technology to identify and mitigate relevant health risks caused by extreme heat. Can you develop solutions to safeguard well-being during heatwaves? #HeatWaveProtection #RemoteCare #DataScience


Solve for Tomorrow - Tech ideas of Gen next
How do you envision your future? How can novel technologies be utilized in the fields of education, sustainability, health, mobility, social inclusion or new work to create a better future? Take part and collaborate with Samsung to bring your idea that benefits our society & environment to life! We innovate together! #solvefortomorrow #techideasofgennext The voting for your favorite Tech ideas of Gen next is open now!


Scale up the Fight against Chronic Diseases
Chronic diseases are a serious problem on a global scale. They severely limit patient's well-being and enjoyment of life. They put an increasing stress to economies and health care systems. This is avoidable and can be changed. A health-promoting lifestyle can prevent, halt, or even reverse a chronic disease to significantly improve both mental and physical health of a person, while also have positive effects on the economy and healthcare system. As we want to tackle this together, we are looking for innovative approaches to improve the life of millions of people. #ehealth #makebehaviorchangestick #changelifeforbetter


Drive Transformation towards a Patient-Centric Approach
Regulations, decentralization, and false prioritization interfere efficient innovation processes and useful healthcare. Complex regulations all over the world move the focus away from the patient. Quality and compliance will always be top priority of Getinge, however, our mindset need to be shifted to keeping the patient in the center of everything we do. Be part of a change management challenge and support Getinge, a leading medical technology company, to develop future-proof management solutions for a more patient-centric innovation approach. #changemanagement #regulationmanagement #patient-centricity


Digital Healthcare Concierge as a Service
The healthcare system is very complex with numerous different actors, needs and interests. On one side there is a lack of holistic approaches to bundle everything. One the other side there is a lack of individual solutions for special needs of patients a/o stakeholders. Insurance companies have the most demanding task here: coordinate, connect, and deliver everything. Digital technologies offer great opportunities to meet all these Challenges. IKK Classic is looking for all-embracing, holistic, OR special individual solutions. Let's improve the quality of health care together! “The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it”. Welcome to the glory! #futureofhealthcare #digitalhealthconcierge #connectedhealth


Co-Create the Future of Packaging
The immense carbon footprint of the global pharmaceutical and MedTech industry begs for rethinking practices along the entire value chain. Whether it is manufacturing processes, distribution and transport, or the usage and disposal of products - packaging is always the central issue. Innovate and rethink the current processes and practices along the global pharma and MedTech value chain with Uhlmann and “sustainabilize” the future of packaging. #responsiblepharma #sustainablevaluechains #sustainablepackaging
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