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Key industries- Best Practice: Healthcare sector in Hanover
n Within the scope of its key industry strategy, the GCB German Convention Bureau is positioning German event locations globally with a focus on their special strengths in business and scientific areas. In this regard, Hanover stands out by reason of its competence in the healthcare sector.
Nowhere in Germany are as many people employed in the healthcare sector as in and around Hanover. That was the result of the study on the“ Current Employment Market Situation and Prospects of the Healthcare and Nursing Occupations in the Hanover Region”. Furthermore, last year a survey conducted by the GCB had already found that Hanover also possesses an especially high level of competence in the healthcare sector in addition to the convention clusters of“ Production Engineering” and“ Logistics”.
n Top addresses for research and teaching Some relevant facts: With more than 62,000 employees and 3,000 companies, the healthcare sector is the largest and fastest growing future-oriented industry in the region surrounding the state capital of Lower Saxony. Hanover holds a top position internationally in the area of regenerative medicine, transplantation research, implantology and infection research. Universities, post-secondary educational institutions and other educational facilities offer innovative study programmes and qualifications with unique selling points – for example the model medical study programme called HannibaL( i. e.“ Hanover’ s integrated, job-oriented and adaptive curriculum”) at the Medical University of Hanover( MHH), which foresees a substantially increased proportion of practical work. Hanover also enjoys an excellent reputation abroad as a top location in the healthcare sector: for example, Saudi Arabia has selected the MHH as the training location for would-be medical specialists.
The state capital- easily accessible right in the heart of Europe- constitutes an ideal basis for outstanding medical research and teaching thanks to the MHH, Medical Park Hannover, the internationally renowned International Neuroscience Institute( INI) as well as Klinikum Region Hannover – one of the largest publicsector hospitals in Germany. Furthermore, the German Hearing Centre“ Deutsches HörZentrum Hannover” at the MHH is internationally famous because of the world’ s largest cochlea implant programme, and the MHH Clinic for Heart, Thorax, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery is one of the leading surgical hospitals in Europe – with the world’ s largest centre for lung transplants as well as one of Europe’ s leading centres for liver transplants for children. The heart surgery and paediatric heart surgery facility that developed the biological cardiac valve that grows together with the child for implanting in young children is famous internationally. www. hannoverkongress. de
The conference location Hanover benefits from this unique health cluster. Some examples:
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June 6 th to 8 th, 2013: Annual Conference of the German Society for Prosthetic Dentistry and Biomaterials
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October 8 th to 10 th, 2013: BIOTECHNICA at the trade fair grounds – Europe’ s Number 1 industry get-together for Biotechnology, Life Sciences and Laboratory Technology
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January 22 nd to 25 th, 2014: Neurological and Intensive Care Congress ANIM