Today's Portrait Highlights

InnoBaltica - Building the Pomeranian Centre of Innovation

InnoBaltica focus on innovation in the Baltic Sea Region. The main goals are (1) To create strong links and effective cooperation between academic and business entities toward implementation of innovative products; (2) To increase the competence level of the regional innovative processes’ managers and the cooperation networks’ leaders; (3) To attract investors for the Pomeranian innovation offer. The core activities focus on inspiring and stimulating the development processes as well as the implementation of key projects. InnoBaltica is administrator and coordinator of two major Pomeranian clusters BioEkoChem & KlimaPomerania.

ILWia: Testing innovation in everyday life

Healthy Ageing with the support of modern technologies – that is the guiding topic of our regional living lab ILWiA. To achieve this goal we are operating a showcase for the broad public which is equipped with various technical assistance systems supporting self-determined living and housing in old age. The showcase offers a hands-on experience of technology providing the visitors with different comprehensible use cases. We manage the lab in close collaboration with the administrative district Vorpommern-Greifswald and the non-profit association for living and housing in old age – ILWiA e.V.

Stryker Trauma GmbH

Stryker Trauma GmbH is specialised in the development and production of intramedullary nails. As such, the Stryker Trauma GmbH is the world leader in intramedullary nailing with an annual production of 400,000 nails. Statistically, every 90 seconds a nail from Schönkirchen is implanted worldwide.