Øresund Science Region is an alliance between six regional and bi-national network organisations and three projects:
Øresund IT
Øresund Food Network
Øresund Environment Academy
Øresund Logistics
Medicon Valley Alliance
Projects:
Diginet Øresund
Humaniora Øresund
Øresund Nano

The main purpose is to promote innovation and growth through cooperation. Øresund Science Region has a solid base for development and unique possibilities globally speaking for success. We have 150,000 students and 14,000 researchers at the fourteen member institutions of Øresund University; a large number of successful high-tech companies, small one-man upstarts as well as major international companies; a number of science parks - some of them amongst the biggest in Europe - and an innovation-oriented public sector.
Øresund Science Region is funded by the Foundation for Technology Transfer in Lund, the Danish Ministry for IT and Research and Øresund University as well as companies and research hospitals.

Overall aims

• establishing state of the art scientific clusters and networks
• stimulating new knowledge within areas where ØSR is competitive on a global scale
• developing and securing an innovative environment and an efficient commercialisation structure
• global branding of Øresund as a high-tech region
• promoting integration across borders in the region (disciplines, academia, industry, the public sector, Denmark and Sweden, Øresund and the world)
• organising conferences and symposia 
• promoting and initiating courses, PhD-programmes, summer universities and life-long learning.

Contact

Øresund Science Region
Chair: Göran Bexell, Lund University
Contact: Bjarke L. Frandsen
+ 45 353 22 603

Medicon Valley Academy
Chair: Per Belfrage, Lund University
Contact: mva@mva.org
MVA Copenhagen: +45 3329 1030

Øresund Food Network
Chair: Mats Liljestam, Danisco A/S
Contact: Maria Olofsdotter
 +45 2875 4090

Øresund IT Academy
Chair: Niels Bo Theilgaard
Contact: Peter Höjerback 
+46 709 759 000

Øresund Environment Academy
Chair: Mats Liljestam
Contact: Jacob Juul

Øresund Logistics
chair: Jacob Vestergaard, Øresundsbron
Patrik Rydén
Phone: +46 40 30 56 89

Øresund University
Chair: Göran Bexell, Lund University
Contact: Ulla Kockum
+46 46 222 09 68


Øresund IT Academy
IT Øresund is a co-operative organization for Swedish and Danish IT actors in the Øresund region.
The overall aim of Øresund IT Academy is to create an optimal environment for the development of business, education and research in the IT sector. Through the cross-fertilization of Swedish and Danish of business and higher education, new knowledge can be created to generate growth in both new and established IT companies thus strengthening the competitiveness of the Øresund region.
The ultimate goal is to make the Øresund region into one of the world's most important growth regions in IT.

Contact:
Peter Höjerback
Øresund IT
Öresundshuset, Box 117, 221 00 Lund
Mobile +46 709 759 000
Fax: +46 40 10 33 50
Website: www.oresundit.org

Øresund Food Network
The vision of the Øresund Food Network is to make the Øresund Region into one of Europe's most dynamic regions in the fields of agriculture and food production.
The goals are:
- to bring together and consolidate comprehensive research and educational programmes from within the industry itself and from within the universities with the aim of establishing a centre of excellence in the foodstuffs industry
- to create networks between the academic and business worlds, concentrating on strategically chosen areas
- to develop contacts between universities and companies to enable the agriculture and foodstuffs industries to maximise their ability to produce high-quality provisions employing a wealth of joint experience
- to promote the Øresund Region as a prominent centre of excellence within the foodstuffs industry.
Programmes

Specific areas of research and training have been selected. Priority has been given to high-skill areas on both sides of the Sound. Workshops and Swedish-Danish contact networks have been set up within these areas of priority. In this way, the flow of communication and contacts between the worlds of business, research and society in general have been reinforced. Spin-offs of the networks are research projects, commercial ventures and training courses. The latter can be co-ordinated in order to attract international participants.

Organisation
A board composed of 12 members manages the Øresund Food Network. The universities and research fields are represented by four members as are industry and authorities. Half of the members come from Sweden and the other half come from Denmark. The chair-person, appointed by Øresund University, is Bent Claudi Lassen; the managing director is Gert Göransson of the Swedish Food Production Centre in Lund (LCL). He is also the Swedish contact. Jörgen Holm is the deputy managing director and the contact in Denmark. A small secretariat, closely connected to LCL and LMC, has been created to function in a support capacity for the board and is located in both countries. Øresund Food Network collaborates closely with its counterpart organisation at Øresund University.

The role of Øresund University
Øresund University leads the Øresund Food Network. The board is in charge of all business activities and reports every six months to Øresund University on its progress. The Øresund Food Network uses all of the universities within Øresund University as a source of expertise and also consults other research institutions in connected fields in Sweden and Denmark.

Funding
The Øresund Food Network has initially been allocated 1.2 million Swedish crowns (SEK), half of which comes from the European Union Interreg II project. It is the responsibility of the board to ensure long-term funding.
www.oeresundfood.org

Contact:
Contact:
Maria Olofsdotter
Arne Jacobsens Allé 15-17
Ørestad City
2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark
Tel: +45 35283228
Fax: +45 35283210

Medicon Valley Academy
Medicon Valley Academy (MVA) is a membership based and financed, politically independent network organisation. The members of MVA include hospitals, universities and companies within the medico field in the Øresund Region. The mission of MVA is to enhance the co-operation between universities, hospitals and industries in the Øresund region in order to co-ordinate and strengthen medico and biotech research as well as to market the human life science companies and health institutions of the region.

Secretariate in Copenhagen:
Arne Jacobsens Allé 15-17
Ørestad City
2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark
Phone: +45 3329 1030
E-mail: mva@mva.org

http://www.mva.org
http://www.mva.dk