Networking
From up-and-coming start-ups to well-established medium-sized companies and large international corporations: Health Navigator Cologne is the go-to place for the business community. Our experts have excellent connections. You can benefit from our network, too!
We connect you with the right people according to your individual needs
- $with other local and regional entrepreneurs
- $with industry networks and associations
- $with Cologne's universities and scientific institutions
- $at numerous networking and trade events.
- $with players in the life sciences industry, biotech clusters in the region and incubators from the industry
Useful links in the network
Industry networks Cologne & NRW
Branchennetzwerke in der Region Köln
Netzwerke und Institutionen Rheinland & NRW
Contact points in Cologne
KölnBusiness Business Development
Whether you are starting up or expanding, whether you have questions about funding and financing, communicating with the city administration or looking for commercial property: KölnBusiness supports you in all business and administrative matters. As a municipal subsidiary, we offer our services completely free of charge.
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Events & Messen 2025 in Köln und Region
- Digital Health Meetup Cologne | 13. März 2025
- IDS 2025 | 25-29. März 2025 >>>
- FIBO 2025 | 10.-13. April 2025 >>>
- New Kids on the Block – Life Sciences | 7. Mai 2025
- Gesundheitskongress des Westens | 14.-15. Mai 2025 >>>
- InsureNXT | 14.-15. Mai 2025 >>>
- Digital Health Meetup Cologne | 09. September 2025
- Bioökonomie IHK Köln | 18. September 2025
- BioRiver Boost! – Startup Wettbewerb | 26. September 2025
Kölner Wissenschaftsrunde (KWR)
The Cologne Science Roundtable (KWR) offers numerous ways to bring science to life and make it accessible to all. These include citizen-oriented lectures at Science in City Hall, excursions, presentations and guided tours as part of Cologne Theme Weeks, and lectures at unusual locations as part of the Science in Cologne Houses (WiKH) series. There are also events and announcements from the 16 member universities and seven non-university research institutions.
Knowledge and technology transfer
The teams in the knowledge and technology transfer centres promote the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas between science, industry and society and offer education, advice and support in the implementation of research results, cooperation with industrial partners and the founding of companies.
23.10.2025 | Digital Health Network Rheinland
Digital Health boomt – auch bei uns im Rheinland. Ob Startups, Technologieunternehmen oder neue digitale Lösungen: Die Dynamik ist groß,...
28.10.2025 | Transformation durch Bioökonomie
die Bioökonomie ist der Schlüssel zu einer nachhaltigen, klimaneutralen und wettbewerbsfähigen Zukunft. Sie verbindet wirtschaftliches...
28.05.2025 | Biotech Breakfast
The second round of the new Biotech Breakfast Cologne networking event will take place on 28 May. The organisers, Isabelle Schiffer...







