It is the objective of ScanBalt´s project COMPETENCEREGION, to provide an extensive and structured mapping of the Pan-European ScanBalt Bioregion providing a status and overview with respect to actors, competencies, framework conditions and other relevant factors on a globally comparable basis. More specifically, the project is to 

• spot globally competitive core competencies and capabilities as well as key challenges in life science, genomics and biotechnology for health,
• identify potentials for enhanced cooperations between scientists, health care organisations and entrepreneurs within the ScanBalt Bioregion, with a special focus on the candidate countries,
• identify and motivate potential collaboration partners for joint activities within the framework of existing and future EU-programs and to thus create a platform for the development of transnational clusters according to best-practice,
• accelerate the linkage and integration of the EU candidate countries into Europe´s existing science, health care and business communities,
• develop in a model case joint regional strategies and recommendations on how to strengthen the competitiveness of a Pan-European region, to contribute with the results of an in-depth analysis to recommendations for the optimisation and restructuring of the European research area and thus enhance European competitiveness in life science, genomics and biotechnology for health on a global scale.