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The Biotech Booster program offers mentorship, financial support and networking opportunities, to guide founders from the idea stage to developing an investable and commercial proposition. Our mission? To make biotechnology work. As a participant, you’ll gain the resources, insights, and guidance needed to overcome the challenges of building a biotech startup. You’ll also tap into a powerful network of experienced entrepreneurs, experts, researchers, and industry partners in the Netherlands and abroad. Discover more at biotechbooster.nl

Biotech Training Facility (BTF) is a unique training center where people are trained in a real-life pharmaceutical production facility. Good Manufacturing Practices, production operations, process and analytical validations are examples of training topics. The courses contain hands-on training and are key for among others production operators, quality assurance officers, lab technician and maintenance engineers. The facility is also being used as a pilot plant for testing equipment and training on company specific production processes and analytical methods. BTF is completely equipped with cleanrooms, laboratories and a technical area with easily accessible utilities.

Top Sector Life Sciences & Health (Health Holland) works together with public and private parties to promote the economic opportunities of the societal theme Health & Care of the Dutch cabinet’s Mission-driven Top Sectors and Innovation Policy. The coalition does this on the basis of the five Health & Care missions, formulated by the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport. The central mission is as follows: By 2040, all Dutch citizens will live at least five years longer in good health, while the health inequalities between the lowest and highest socioeconomic groups will have decreased by 30%. There are four underlying missions that contribute to this central mission through changes to lifestyle and living environment, offering more care in the right place and better perspectives for people with chronic diseases, lifelong disabilities and dementia. With this approach, the Netherlands seeks to effectively tackle major societal challenges. Industry can optimally respond to the economic opportunities that these challenges bring.

KuiperCompagnons has a reliable reputation as an office for urban planning, architecture, landscape and spatial planning, and we are proud of that. We have been working on advising, designing and directing the content and appearance of the built environment for over 100 years. Plans that are only conceived on the drawing board have little chance of success. Plans must be created for and with people. The quality of our plans will only be visible and tested after realisation. The clients, but especially the users, are the real litmus test. Our concepts are their world, their city, neighbourhood, street, playground or house. This is not always about grand-vision or iconic projects, and if they are such, then that is because the users, the residents experience the projects as such. We do it for them. Our strength is to find solutions in complex urban environments. We do this by bringing together residents, governments and private parties. Our solutions spark happy, healthy and sustainable life places for life. Our team consists of urban designers, (landscape) architects, planners, lawyers and a large network of other specialists that are experienced in the spatial challenges of tomorrow. We think big, and at the same time ensure a realistic and executable plan.

For more and more industries, a controlled environment is an essential part of the business process. Whether it concerns organisations in  life sciences or  high-tech: Kuijpers is your partner in contamination control and the associated facilities. We are involved in the Netherlands' largest, most complex and most beautiful works in this field. We ensure that the process of our customers is demonstrably good in terms of quality and safety.

Leiden Bio Science Park is the first, largest and most comprehensive Life Sciences and Health cluster in the Netherlands. Since its inception, the park has become a hub of innovation, fostering groundbreaking R&D, public-private partnerships, and a cosmopolitan business climate. Today, the park is home to a dynamic community of 470 organisations, ranging from leading biotech companies and renowned knowledge institutes to innovative startups and even museums. As the meeting place for multidisciplinary talent and the home of groundbreaking discoveries, we are shaping the future of health by making treatments, medication, and solutions more personal, accessible, faster to develop, and quality-driven.

Great Innovations deserves to be understood At Mars, we work with companies moving the world forward. We clarify your story, strengthen your brand, and build a smarter digital presence, so your ambition is visible and delivers impact.

 Great innovation only creates impact when others can adopt it. Every day, teams build solutions that improve health, strengthen sustainability and enable progress. We bring clarity across story, brand and digital so the right people understand it, trust it and take action.

MyData-TRUST is a global leader in Data Privacy and Data Protection services, dedicated exclusively to the Life Sciences sector. From agile startups to global multinationals, we help organizations safeguard health data, reduce risk and enhance compliance while enabling innovation. Our multidisciplinary team (combining legal, IT security, and clinical research expertise) delivers practical, business-oriented solutions covering the full spectrum of privacy needs: outsourced Data Protection Officer (DPO), Data Protection Representative (DPR), audits, risk assessments, trainings, and preparation for certifications. By integrating privacy know-how with AI-driven tools, MyData-TRUST provides smarter, faster, and more cost-efficient compliance support in over 30 privacy regulations worldwide.

Europe's foremost biopharmaceutical campus Pivot Park is the hub for companies and knowledge institutes in the biopharma industry. Over 1,000 people work at the campus at 60 start-ups, scale-ups and established companies specialized in transformational drug discoveries. Pivot Park offers sustainable real estate, facilities and services, gateways to knowledge, access to entrepreneurial expertise and a dynamic community. Pivot Park in Oss has everything that is required to develop Europe's foremost biopharmaceutical campus for a community that will together improve global health. Learn more at www.pivotpark.com

Progress consultants, your experts in Life Sciences. Progress provides project management, interim management and consultancy services in the field of Pharmaceutical and Bioprocess Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality Control, Chemistry Manufacturing and Controls (CMC), Technology Transfer, Regulatory Affairs, Validation, Lean Six Sigma / Operational Excellence and Quality Management (GxP, QA, QP/RP). Progress holds a leading position in fast and effective support and has an excellent track record of ensuring customers reach their goals. Our consultants utilize and share their wide knowledge and broad experience to accelerate your projects. Our services are characterized by a multi-disciplinary approach, flexibility, added value and persistence. Continuously training, motivating, inspiring and challenging our employees is therefore a high priority for us. We accelerate improvement!

Building expert teams in the Life Sciences industry Real is a Life Sciences specialist, part of SThree, the global STEM workforce consultancy. With expertise in biotechnology, pharmaceutical, medical technology and food & nutrition, Real advises businesses, builds expert teams, and delivers project solutions. Specialising in pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, and food and nutrition, our 25+ years of experience enable us to connect top specialists with industry-leading organisations. Leveraging our extensive network, in-depth market insight, and customer-centric focus, we provide compliant and impactful employment solutions that drive worldwide progress. Outpace tomorrow, together

Rotterdam Square is the organization that connects the Life Sciences & Health ecosystem in the Rotterdam region. Located in the vibrant heart of Rotterdam, and part of the new Erasmus Medical Center Campus, Rotterdam Square is a central location for creating partnerships and collaboration with Erasmus MC, Erasmus University and the Delft University of Technology. Connecting international Life Sciences & Health collaboration Our goal is to bring together experts in healthcare, science and technology, from academia and industry, to accelerate innovations in Health and Tech and create healthcare solutions for the future. We connect researchers and companies on a regional, national and international level, organize networking events and support companies in creating promising partnerships, drawing upon our extensive knowledge of the Life Sciences & Health sector. Working in collaboration with partners such as the Municipality of Rotterdam, Invest in Holland and Health~Holland, Rotterdam Square helps your company to successfully integrate in and connect to the Rotterdam ecosystem and be part of the Dutch connected Life Sciences & Health metropolis, to establish new healthcare innovations that benefit our patients.

Yxion BV is one of the leading companies in the Netherlands that provides consultancy, design, installation and validation services for integral projects in the (Bio)Pharmaceutical, Medical Device, Life Science and Food Industries. Yxion was founded in 2002 and has its office in Weesp, the Netherlands. Yxion currently employs around 80 professionals in (process)engineering, quality affairs, commissioning & qualification, validation and project management. All consultants have extensive hands-on experience in GxP regulated industry and are foremost experts in what they do.