ScanBalt BioRegion encompasses a number of regional life science networks of eleven countries, including Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Germany and Russia. These regional networks´ aims and needs are the basis for ScanBalt. As a network of networks, ScanBalt is a unique concept with the purpose of building a strong competent meta-region able to compete with other life science players at the meta-regional and global level.