As part of the European HealthTech Valley project, innovation stakeholders from Hauts-de-France, Wallonia and Flanders have launched a Cross-Border Tech Transfer Committee, dedicated to bringing together the research, healthcare, innovation and technology transfer ecosystems of the three regions.
This initiative pursues a shared ambition: to accelerate the transformation of research results into tangible solutions for the benefit of patients, healthcare professionals and regional economic development.
Beyond networking, the Committee aims to foster new collaborations around high-potential health technologies. Its work focuses in particular on:
- identifying complementary technologies and expertise across the three regions;
- the technology bundling approach, which consists of combining technologies, expertise or platforms from different regions to strengthen their technology transfer and commercialisation potential;
- bringing together researchers, clinicians, entrepreneurs, industry players and investors;
- sharing best practices between Technology Transfer Offices (TTOs) in the fields of intellectual property, licensing, innovative company creation and industrial partnerships;
- developing opportunities for cross-border co-development and technology transfer.
The Committee currently brings together representatives from Biopark Charleroi, Eurasanté, Flanders Investment & Trade (FIT), SATT Nord, Réseau LIEU, Ghent University (UGent) and Lille University Hospital, as well as other innovation, research and technology transfer organisations from the three regions.
This initiative is intended to expand progressively. Universities, hospitals, clinical research infrastructures, technology transfer organisations and innovation funding stakeholders are invited to contribute to the Committee’s activities and to the events organised as part of HealthTech Valley.
The ambition is to build an open and operational community capable of fostering new partnerships, facilitating the transfer of innovations to the market and strengthening the international attractiveness of HealthTech Valley.
First Meeting : Imaging Across Borders
To turn this initiative into concrete action, the Cross-Border Tech Transfer Committee is organising its first event dedicated to a strategic field for health innovation: biomedical imaging.
📅 17 November 2026
📍 Charleroi (Belgium)
Imaging Across Borders will bring together researchers, clinicians, technology platforms, hospitals, technology transfer organisations, innovative companies and investors from Hauts-de-France, Wallonia and Flanders.
The objective: to raise awareness of the capabilities and expertise available across HealthTech Valley and foster collaboration around preclinical and clinical imaging.
On the agenda:
- Presentation of the main academic and hospital imaging platforms across the three regions;
- Showcase of the equipment, services and expertise available to researchers and companies;
- Visit to the Centre for Microscopy and Molecular Imaging (CMMI), a leading infrastructure for preclinical and molecular imaging;
- Testimonials from companies, spin-offs and healthcare organisations that have developed collaborations with imaging centres;
- Networking and discussion sessions designed to encourage new connections and the development of cross-border projects.
This first meeting will help lay the foundations for long-term cooperation between health innovation stakeholders across the three regions.
