About the Osnabrück Healthcare Accelerator
As Osnabrück Healthcare Accelerator, we support startups from all over Germany, with a focus on Digital Health & MedTech, to develop further.
Our mission
We support founders, start-ups and innovators in successfully implementing their ideas for a better healthcare system. To this end, we offer access to experts from a wide range of fields, potential cooperation partners, investors and a strong regional network. We create space for exchange, co-creation and piloting of solutions that improve medical care, make processes more efficient and thus enable sustainable, future-proof healthcare – both regionally and nationally.
Vision and Values
Our vision is sustainable healthcare system — in Osnabrück, Germany and beyond. By promoting startups, innovative ideas and interdisciplinary collaborations, we are driving digital transformation, sustainable care solutions and patient-centered innovations.
Innovation - we promote bold ideas and create an environment in which new things can be created.
Networking - we connect startups, healthcare institutions, research and industry and believe in the power of co-creation.
Collaboration on equal footing - we work with each startup individually, trustingly and on equal footing.
Impact - we focus on solutions that create measurable added value for patients, care providers and the healthcare system.
Openness - we act transparently, share knowledge and learn from each other.
This is how the OHA is structured
The Osnabrück Healthcare Accelerator GmbH is operated as a public-private partnership by Wirtschaftsförderung Osnabrück (50%) and OHA Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH (50%). The respective shareholders elect the Advisory Board of the Accelerator GmbH, which consists of seven people.
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Our Advisory Board Members
The Advisory Board of OHA Accelerator GmbH consists of seven permanently elected members, whose term of office is two years. In addition to management, the Advisory Board may also involve other competent and expert third parties to meetings.
Franziska Bredehöft
Administrative Professor of Business Psychology, Osnabrück University of Apl
Andre Schüller
Board member, Sparkasse Osnabrück
Daniel Reitel
Managing Partner, Reitel Feinwerktechnik GmbH
Inga Heins
Partner, Managing Director, Tax Advisor, PKF WMS GmbH & Co. KG
Heike Pape
Administrative Director for Social Affairs, Citizen Services and Human Resources, City of Osnabrück
Hon. Prof. Dr. med. Michael Böckelmann
CEO, Schüchtermann-Klinik Bad Rothenfelde
Michael Büttner
Managing Director, GROW Digital Group GmbH & Co. KG
Voices from our Advisory Board
As Chairman of the Advisory Board of the OHA, I experience every day how crucial a strong network is for innovation in healthcare. The accelerator brings founders together with experienced partners from clinics, science and industry — it is precisely this combination that opens up new opportunities for practical solutions and sustainable developments. I am delighted to contribute our expertise and to actively shape the future of medicine together.
Hon. Prof. Dr. med. Michael Böckelmann
Chief Executive Officer, Schüchtermann-Klinik Bad Rothenfelde
Health is the basis for a future worth living in. By bringing innovative startups together with committed partners from business, medicine, public sector and economic development agencies from the city and district, we are sustainably strengthening our entire region — this cooperation inspires me. As Sparkasse Osnabrück and in my role as Deputy Chairman of the Advisory Board, involvement in the OHA is therefore particularly important to me.
Andre Schüller
Board member, Sparkasse Osnabrück
As Chairman of the Advisory Board of the OHA, I experience every day how crucial a strong network is for innovation in healthcare. The accelerator brings founders together with experienced partners from clinics, science and industry — it is precisely this combination that opens up new opportunities for practical solutions and sustainable developments. I am delighted to contribute our expertise and to actively shape the future of medicine together.
Hon. Prof. Dr. med. Michael Böckelmann
Chief Executive Officer, Schüchtermann-Klinik Bad Rothenfelde
Health is the basis for a future worth living in. By bringing innovative startups together with committed partners from business, medicine, public sector and economic development agencies from the city and district, we are sustainably strengthening our entire region — this cooperation inspires me. As Sparkasse Osnabrück and in my role as Deputy Chairman of the Advisory Board, involvement in the OHA is therefore particularly important to me.
Andre Schüller
Board member, Sparkasse Osnabrück
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