Eurasanté, LILLE NORTHERN FRANCE HEALTH CLUSTER
Eurasanté is a development agency dedicated to tech transfer and business development in the life sciences sector. For thirty years, Eurasanté has worked to promote the development of the nutrition & health sector in all its dimensions. Our experienced project managers assist researchers, startups, and businesses to develop their innovations and projects, boosting their business and networks. It leads 4 campuses of excellence in Hauts-de-France region.
Our objectives
Boost the establishment of companies and the development of activities in the region and in the Eurasanté Park (Lille) – a business park dedicated to the health sector.
Support companies in the regional health sector and innovative project leaders (especially through the Bio Incubator) in developing their business.
Value the excellence of the research programmes undertaken in the region and, more specifically, within the hospital-university campus of Lille. Support academics in the business world to facilitate the startup process.
Create the best conditions for health sector stakeholders to meet, exchange ideas, share, and work together. Promote sustainable growth within the health sector in the Hauts-de-France region through business conventions and international events.
Leader of a center of excellence in Nutrition & Health sector in all its dimensions
The Eurasanté agency runs 4 incubators:
- The Eurasanté Bio-Incubator and Bio-Accelerator, to help create and develop healthcare start-ups.
- The Euralimentaire Incubator-Accelerator, to help create and develop foodtech start-ups.
- The Eurasenior incubator-accelerator, to help create and develop silver economy start-ups.
- The Vivalley incubator-accelerator, to help create and develop start-ups in sport, health and well-being.
It also runs 4 campuses of excellence:
- Parc Eurasanté, a 300-hectare site of excellence dedicated to cutting-edge activities in the healthcare sector, located at the heart of Europe’s largest university hospital campus.
- The Euralimentaire campus of excellence, dedicated to fresh, local produce and logistics at the heart of the Lomme wholesale market, France’s 2nd largest wholesale market (fruit, vegetables, flowers) after Rungis.
- The Vivalley Campus, at Lens-Liévin, a 110-hectare campus dedicated to “Sport – Health & Well-being”.
- The Eurasenior campus, located at the Hôtel Deusy in Arras, is the first Silver Economy incubator-accelerator in Europe, and is dedicated to the development of innovative solutions for ageing well in the Hauts-de-France region.
Clubster NSL (Nutrition-Health-Longevity) is the professional network for industry, research and healthcare players involved in Health-Nutrition and Healthy Ageing in the Hauts-de-France region, with 360 member structures.
Its ecosystem
The Hauts-de-France Nutrition & Health in all its dimensions sector , led by Eurasanté and Clubster NHL, boasts 1,100 companies employing 32,000 people in the biotech/pharma, medtech/hospitech, e-health, silver economy and specialized services sectors. This sector, which brings together major groups with global reach as well as a vast network of SMEs and SMIs, occupies a special place in the regional economy, accounting for 13.5 billion euros, putting the region in 3rd place among clusters of national importance.
Companies in this sector interact with a vast network of some of the most fertile research institutions in France, with 80 laboratories bringing together 4,000 researchers, focusing on major public health themes: cancer, cardio-metabolic and cardiovascular diseases, pharmacology, immunity, neurosciences, infectious diseases, inflammatory diseases and digital health and medical imaging.