Accelerating Health Innovation Through Public-Private Collaboration

Health Capital Helsinki (HCH) is an innovation alliance of the Cities of Helsinki and Espoo, University of Helsinki, Aalto University, HUS Helsinki University Hospital and Metropolia and Haaga-Helia Universities of Applied Sciences.

HCH’s core mission is to build joint research and innovation projects that bring together expertise from both the public and private sectors. We unite these sectors to co-create innovative solutions that advance health and generate shared value for both society and business in the Helsinki Capital Region.

HCH’s core mission is to build joint research and innovation projects that bring together expertise from both the public and private sectors. We unite these sectors to co-create innovative solutions that advance health and generate shared value for both society and business in the Helsinki Capital Region.

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Highlights

Introducing: Founding Pharma Partners

Collaboration is key in Health & Wellbeing, but too often a silo mentality sets in to discourage serious synergies. How do you turn competitors into c…

27 Apr 2026

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Introducing: Founding Pharma Partners

Collaboration is key in Health & Wellbeing, but too often a silo mentality sets in to discourage serious synergies. How…

27 Apr 2026

News

Join Health Capital Helsinki as a Founding Pharma Partner

Health Capital Helsinki (HCH) invites innovative pharmaceutical companies to join as Founding Pharma Partners. This ent…

18 Dec 2025

Partner with Health Capital Helsinki

Health Capital Helsinki helps transform ideas into impactful health innovations faster, smarter, and together.

Our collaboration model

Connect & Catalyze

Bring together universities, university hospitals, cities, and industry partners to identify and launch impactful research and innovation (R&I) collaborations.

Build & Empower

Form strong, multi-stakeholder R&I consortiums for securing national and EU-level funding and accelerate the translation of ideas into real-world solutions and societal impact.

Showcase & Strengthen

Promote the joint visibility and global reach of member organizations’ health research, innovation projects, and related success stories.

Alliance partners

Health Capital Helsinki (HCH) is a research and development alliance that brings together key institutions in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area to advance health and life sciences innovation through public private partnerships and co-creation.

About

Helsinki is the capital of Finland. Helsinki provides all the conditions for living the best possible life.

Espoo is a leading innovation hub that creates the kind of innovation the world needs. Ideas flow through our innovation community like tides, carrying the excitement of people and leading to better quality of life.

HUS Helsinki University Hospital is the biggest health care provider in Finland. As a university hospital, we continuously develop and evaluate our treatment methods and activities.

The University of Helsinki is the oldest and largest institution of academic education in the country. The university is an international scientific community of 40,000 students and researchers.

Aalto University is where people who think differently bring the best out of each other. A place where imagination and theory meet practice and reality. A community to solve challenges most consider impossible.

Haaga-Helia is a strongly business orientated university of applied sciences. We focus on co-operation, entrepreneurship, innovation and internationality.

Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Finland’s largest university of applied sciences, educates future professionals in the fields of Business, Culture, Health Care and Social Services, and Technology.