Heidelberg – Mannheim & the Rhine-Neckar Region

The Rhine-Neckar region offers a unique research and working space for scientific institutions, companies and startups in the life sciences and healthcare industry. With top-ranked Universities, renowned research institutions and global players such and global healthcare players, the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region offers ideal conditions for successful knowledge transfer and excellent working conditions for scientists and innovators from all over the world.

The Rhein-Neckar region is also renowned for its quality of life: You find a vibrant cultural life and attractive residential and shopping areas as well as a large and diverse international community. The region is one of the sunniest areas in Germany with a stunning landscape for recreation and plenty of outdoor activities. It has a good public transportation infrastructure and is well connected to several motorways and to Frankfurt International Airport. The wide variety of schooling (including international schools) and day-care facilities ensures your family feels comfortable. Many initiatives and associations offer a good balance between work and live.

Voices
on the foundation of the Alliance

"Roche is a global health company that maintains its third-largest site with 8.400 heads of staff in Mannheim. Our own medical research benefits from an excellent scientific environment, superior research facilities, innovative partnerships and a fast technology transfer from the lab to the patient, at that is exactly what we find in the Rhine-Neckar Metropolitan Region. With the Heidelberg Mannheim Health & Life Science Alliance, these important factors will be further strengthened, and we are convinced that this project will significantly boost the region’s performance and standing in the field of health and the life sciences."
Claus Haberda
Former CEO of Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Mannheim
"The Rhine-Neckar region, with the urban centres of Mannheim and Heidelberg, offers ideal conditions for an internationally competitive hot spot of health management: scientific excellence and a corporate landscape with great innovative power distributed across an urban region of 2.5 million inhabitants. With what will be Germany’s largest university hospital at its centre, the region’s attractiveness to the brightest minds in the world might grow to the point of becoming self- reinforcing. This is a unique opportunity for Baden-Württemberg to play a central role in one of the leading industries of the future — with well-paid jobs and a great deal of value creation for the state and the region."
Dr. Peter Kurz
Former Lord Mayor of the City of Mannheim
"We are on the way to becoming one of the most attractive and competitive regions in Europe. The Health & Life Science Alliance is a special Beacon, which will continue to boost the innovative power of our companies, speed up knowledge and technology transfer, ad further increase our momentum for spin-offs and start-ups."
Dr. Tilman Krauch
Board Member of Freudenberg SE,
Board Member of the registered association Zukunft Metropolregion Rhein-Neckar (ZMRN e.V.)
"Heidelberg is already an important international research centre for the life sciences. With this alliance, we have the chance to become one of the top 10 life science hubs in the world."
Prof. Dr. Eckart Würzner
Lord Mayor of the City of Heidelberg