Lab2Care (L2C) – The Health Innovation Bridge aims to build a stronger ecosystem and a collaborative platform that drives the creation and acceleration of health technology startups from Emerging Europe that can compete globally. Building on the region’s strong foundation in life sciences and natural sciences education and research, it connects universities, healthcare providers, researchers, innovators (startups, scale-ups, industry players), and investors to accelerate the clinical and market validation, technological utilization and market access of health innovations.