A delegation of experts led by Steffen Krach, President of the Hanover Region, and Doris Petersen, Managing Director of hannoverimpuls, visited the Swedish capital Stockholm at the beginning of September. The focus of the trip was on exchanges with leading Swedish institutions in the fields of AI research, clinical practice, and innovation policy, including the Swedish eHealth Agency, Karolinska University Hospital, and the renowned Karolinska Research Institute.

Also present: the Lower Saxony Center for AI and Causal Methods in Medicine (CAIMed), represented by Vice President Prof. Dr. Frank Lammert from consortium partner Hannover Medical School (MHH) and Managing Director Dr. Johannes Winter.

For CAIMed, this provided an opportunity to establish valuable contacts with Swedish research and translation partners. The discussions focused on topics that are also central to our work: method development and the use of artificial intelligence in medicine, the resilience of the healthcare system in times of crisis, and the establishment and successful operation of innovation platforms as drivers of international cooperation in deep tech and life sciences.

A special event was the network meeting in the traditional restaurant Den Gyldene Freden, which has been a venue for scientific meetings for two centuries and serves as a meeting place for the Nobel Committee for Literature.