Together with GO4EXPORT and Health~Holland, Health Valley and MedTech Twente are organizing a trip to MEDICA 2025 in Düsseldorf, the world’s largest medical trade fair, on Tuesday, November 18.

MEDICA (November 17-20, 2025) offers the opportunity to spot new innovations, attend symposiums, and plenty of ways to network. Our innovation managers will also be joining us on this day to strengthen the network, discover new opportunities, and gain valuable insights. In short, it’s the place to be inspired, but also to make new connections, both on the bus, at the fair, and during the networking drinks!

Take a look at the MEDICA website to check out the program and which parties are participating.

Get ready for MEDICA 2025: join our preparatory webinar!

Join us on November 4 at 14:00 hrs for a free online session full of practical insights to help you make the most of your participation in the world’s largest medical trade fair.

Speakers:

• Nadine Litchfield (GTAI)
• Mirjam Mulder (NBSO)
• Olaf Winkler (BVMed)
• Micha van Lin (TFHC)

During this interactive webinar, you will discover how to:

• Maximize your visibility and networking opportunities at MEDICA
• Access market entry support for Germany
• Navigate key (regulatory) challenges in the German market
• Connect with the right partners to grow your business

Register before November 3

Program

07:00 | MedTech Twente bus departure: Hengelosestraat 500, Enschede
10:00 | Arrival in Düsseldorf & visit to trade fair
16:00 | Drinks at Health~Holland Pavilion MEDICA 2025
17:30 | Departure to dinner location in Düsseldorf
18:00 | Dutch-German TECH.LAND dinner with participants from the MedTech Twente bus, Health Valley bus, and a German delegation.

Approximately 21:30 | End of dinner

Approximately 23:30 | Arrival in Enschede

Not from the Twente region? More info about the Nijmegen bus

If you are not from the Nijmegen or Enschede area, please send an email to events@healthvalley.nl and indicate where you would like to board. Partners throughout the country have organized buses to take you to MEDICA.

Bus & tickets Medica trade fair

• Free for MedTech Twente partners (if you have any questions about this, please contact us at contact@medtechtwente.nl) and paying Health Valley partners.
• Costst are €30 excluding VAT per participant for non-partners of Health Valley and MedTech Twente (a fee of €30 will be charged for no-shows).
• The bus trip, breakfast on the bus, ticket to the MEDICA trade fair, networking drinks with snacks and dinner are provided.
• You will receive the invoice (if applicable) in a separate message prior to the event.

Requests

Do you have a request for assistance that you would like to make during the bus trip or during the trade fair day? Please send an email to events@healthvalley.nl, and our innovation managers will get to work on it.

Don’t miss out on any opportunities during MEDICA 2025!

Meet potential business partners and customers from around the world through our B2B Matchmaking: an efficient and targeted way to make valuable connections. From November 10 to 16, 2025, you can easily put together your own matchmaking agenda with short, powerful 30-minute online meetings. Everything takes place via a single integrated platform, without having to switch between systems. The digital introduction is also the ideal stepping stone to a 1:1 meeting on the MEDICA exhibition floor, which takes place the following week. You will come into contact with a broad international network of participants, including parties from Germany and the United States, among others. Present your offer, make new contacts, and get the most out of your participation! You can register here!

This activity is made possible in part by GO4EXPORT, the export program for entrepreneurs from Gelderland and Overijssel. Both provinces are clients and financiers of the program, which is carried out by regional public and private partners, including Health Valley and MedTech Twente.

We share data with partners GO4EXPORT, Taskforce Health Care, and MedTech Twente, with whom we collaborate for this specific event.

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