About ScanBalt


ScanBalt™ fmba (in short ScanBalt) is the organisation for the Baltic Sea or Nordic-Baltic Region's Health and Life science community, named ScanBalt BioRegion.

ScanBalt is a not-for-profit member association (VAT 27823459) which serves as a service provider for the members and promotes the development of ScanBalt BioRegion as a globally competitive macro-region and innovation market. 


The aims of the regions and the regional networks constitute the basis for ScanBalt. ScanBalt is a mediating, coordinating and communicating umbrella and/or platform.  

The secretariat is locaced in Copenhagen (Denmark) while liaison offices are located in Tartu (Estonia), Gdansk (Poland), Netherlands (Groningen) and Copenhagen (Denmark).

ScanBalt keeps a lean and efficient organisation based on regional involvement and the members direct participation.

How we do it:

  • We promote projects, business and research
  • We promote visibility and branding
  • We promote policy issues, regional innovation and cluster development

ScanBalt is a bottom-up association driven by the members and their needs based on a shared vision for ScanBalt BioRegion. ScanBalt has a return of investment by the members of more than 15 to 1 since 2001.

Articles published by ScanBalt can be found here: http://www.scanbalt.org/press/scanbalt+in+the+press