COMMUNICATION

Health~Holland Portal

Gateway to the Dutch Life Sciences & Health sector

Top Sector Life Sciences & Health (LSH) aims to unlock valuable information for, by and about the Dutch Life Sciences & Health sector. To that end, the Top Sector’s communications team has therefore been working hard to establish an online LSH portal that will be accessible through the Health~Holland website. Although the completion and optimisation of the portal will remain a continuous effort, the official launch of the Health~Holland portal will take place soon.


The portal focuses on six core themes that have been identified as highly relevant for the success of Top Sector LSH, including funding, rules and regulations, research & development, internationalisation, human capital, and organisations. 

We have worked closely with SMEs, academia and research organisations, industry associations and other stakeholders to establish the portal’s structure and content. We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone involved for their valuable contributions.


The portal will be launched in September. Further details will be announced on our website shortly. Follow Health~Holland on Twitter to stay up to date with the latest Top Sector LSH news. 




On 5 October 2015, the Knowledge and Innovations Contracts (KICs) 2016-2017 of the nine different Tops Sectors and the enabling technology ICT will be signed by the Dutch government and the Top Sectors chairs.


These KICs describe the indicative investments that the Dutch Top Sectors will make in the research and development programmes of Public-Private-Partnerships as scheduled in the Knowledge and Innovation Agendas 2016-2019 (for Top Sector LSH see: www.health-holland.com). Over the past few months, Health~Holland has jointly reached agreements with all stakeholders and partners for each and every investment in the Top Sector. This has resulted in an ambitious KIC for the Top Sector LSH that will be published at the start of October soon after the signing ceremony at Deltares in Delft on 5 October.

Health~Holland and the Task Force Health Care proudly present the third edition of the Health~Holland Guide. 

Over the past few weeks, hundreds of health-related questions have been clustered into a manageable number of concise questions without losing the depth of the original questions posed. A writing team is currently finalising the text that devotes about one page to each question. This provides an explanation of the question and states whether it can best be answered by targeted fundamental research and/or applied research. An explanation on how private partners can contribute will also be given to illustrate the economic and scientific challenges and perspectives for the coming ten years. The final outcome of the writing team will be presented during the ‘Week of Science’ in October. For more information please visit the Dutch Science Agenda website.