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Health and quality of life

We face complex health challenges. The population is growing steadily and inequalities in healthcare are evident. We want everyone to have a chance to live healthy, long lives, and to have access to preventive and targeted interventions. This can involve everything from medical methods and diet to adapting lifestyle and environment.

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Our expertise

Society invests large resources in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases and health challenges, but less in promotion and preventive measures. The healthcare system is fragmented, has many actors and healthcare costs are increasing. Here we see great opportunities to save money and give more people a longer life in health if we think new. Vinnova works with, among other things:

Curious about ongoing project in health and quality of life?

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National and international initiatives

Vinnova has several major initiatives and programme in health and living environments, both at the national and international level.

Our government assignment

Vinnova has an ongoing government assignment to promote a healthy population.

  • The government is commissioning the Swedish Agency for innovation system (Vinnova) to establish a national innovation cluster for commercialization, skills development and production capacity for cell therapies and other advanced therapies for the whole of Sweden. The innovation cluster will utilize research results from universities and university colleges and the healthcare sector, as well as accelerate growth of new companies and provide commercialization support to small, medium-sized and large companies.

    Read the full mission

    The government is commissioning the Swedish Agency for innovation system (Vinnova) to establish a national innovation cluster for commercialization, skills development and production capacity for cell therapies and other advanced therapies for the whole of Sweden. The innovation cluster will utilize research results from universities and university colleges and the healthcare sector, as well as accelerate growth of new companies and provide commercialization support to small, medium-sized and large companies.

    Read the full mission

  • Measures under 2020-2025 within the framework of the food strategy

    The Government instructs the Swedish Agency for innovation system (Vinnova) to, within the framework of the food strategy, carry out innovation-promoting work with a focus on the food chain under 2020-2025, in order to achieve the strategy's overall objective of increased food production that is sustainable and competitive.

    The mission aims to strengthen innovation work within the Swedish food chain, partly through increased innovation levels, and partly by promoting increased cross-sectoral collaboration, for example in the form of a forum for collaboration.

    Read the full mission

    The Government instructs the Swedish Agency for innovation system (Vinnova) to, within the framework of the food strategy, carry out innovation-promoting work with a focus on the food chain under 2020-2025, in order to achieve the strategy's overall objective of increased food production that is sustainable and competitive.

    The mission aims to strengthen innovation work within the Swedish food chain, partly through increased innovation levels, and partly by promoting increased cross-sectoral collaboration, for example in the form of a forum for collaboration.

    Read the full mission

Reports

Report

Report: Swedish life science is growing and exports are increa...

Vinnova's latest statistics on Swedish life science companies

Current events

Novelty

News

You can find the latest news from the health area in our news archive.

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Meeting places

You can find all events within the health area in our calendar.

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Last updated 1 July 2025