Note: This is a Dutch-language event and intended only for healthcare innovators. Other professions, such as consultants, are excluded from participation.
On Tuesday 25 November, Zorg voor innoveren and Zorginnovatie.nl are hosting the fourth matching event of 2025 in The Hague! Are you a healthcare innovator? At the Matching Event we’ll connect you with relevant partners who can support the (further) development of your healthcare innovation. Will you join us?
What is the Matching Event?
As a healthcare innovator, you’ll meet relevant organisations and sit down together in several rounds to help move your innovation forward. We’ll end the afternoon with a networking reception. In short: an event full of valuable knowledge exchange, useful new contacts, and—who knows—promising collaborations.
Who is the event for?
This event is for healthcare innovators who are developing or further developing their innovation and are looking for tips and advice—for example on funding options, collaborating with care organisations, and implementation challenges.
When & where?
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Date: Tuesday afternoon, 25 November 2025
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Time:
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Walk-in: 13:30 – 14:00
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Programme: 14:00 – 17:00
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Networking reception: 17:00 – 18:00
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Location: The Hague (practical details will be emailed one week prior to the event)
Which organisations will be there?
You can choose at least four and up to six organisations you’d like to meet; you’ll be scheduled with four of them, taking your preferences into account as much as possible.
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Willemien Alting – Nederlandse Zorgautoriteit (NZa)
Guidance on room for innovation within existing regulations and on experimental rules. Questions on financing innovative care delivery (e.g., Beleidsregel Innovatie for small-scale experiments, facultative performances). -
Roos Kolthof & Leonore Siepel – Zorginstituut Nederland
From the MedTech Expertise Team: horizon scanning, identifying new medical-technology innovations, and related policy/package questions for the basic health insurance. -
Tonnie Rijkers – Rijksdienst voor Ondernemend Nederland (RVO)
Advisor focused on health-related programmes, especially EU applications. National Contact Point for Horizon Europe (Cluster Health). Advice on where to apply, writing strong proposals, PPPs, and international innovation. -
Harm Odolphy – VGZ
How VGZ supports scaling impactful innovations in implementation and financing; sharing best practices via the “Zinnige zorg” portal. -
Sjim Romme – CbusineZ & IFOZ
Investment perspectives from CbusineZ (linked to CZ) and the Innovatiefonds Ouderenzorg (IFOZ). Feedback on funding, reimbursement for your innovation, and your concept/product/service. -
Daphne Elberse – Task Force Health Care (TFHC)
Internationalisation support: market knowledge, connections, and opportunities for global collaboration for companies, NGOs, knowledge institutions, providers, and governments. -
Lisa Arkes – Smart Health Tech Center (Erasmus MC)
Connecting start-ups/SMEs/academia with care providers at Erasmus MC to test/validate in real-world settings. Focus on smart care tech (robotics, AI, VR, sensing); support on contacts, expertise, facilities, contracts, and market exploration. -
Bart Haaksman – ROM Utrecht Region
How the regional development agency can help innovative companies grow: investment, innovation, and internationalisation across health, sustainability, and digitalisation; access to networks in Utrecht and other ROMs. -
Ayse Cilek & Martin Klitsie – Technologie voor Thuis (Municipality of The Hague)
Programme enabling people to live independently at home longer through technology. Questions on testing/implementing innovations, setting up pilots with care providers, online office hours, and funding possibilities. -
Pauline van Marwijk Kooy – Zorginnovatie.nl & Daan Dolfing – Health~Holland
How Zorginnovatie.nl (part of Health~Holland) helps with knowledge sharing, visibility, and connections. From Health~Holland: R&D collaboration funding opportunities (PPS, etc.). -
Leo Jetten & Rik Wisselink – Zorg voor innoveren
The government’s central point of contact (VWS, ZIN, NZa, RVO, ZonMw). Questions on visibility, funding, and building market position.
Keen to join? Sign up!
Register via the button below. In the form, indicate which organisations you’d like to meet—choose those that best match the stage of your innovation—and state the questions you want to discuss so participants can prepare.
After registering, you’ll see a confirmation screen where you can save your answers. Only after this confirmation is your place secured. Didn’t see the confirmation? Please register again or email zorgvoorinnoveren@zonmw.nl. Places are limited: full = full.
