Efforts to support talent attraction and retention

In Skåne’s fast-moving, R&D-rich environment, top talent is the driving force behind innovation and competitiveness. At Medicon Village, we create the right conditions for people to thrive, companies to grow, and expertise to stay in the region.

Our key initiatives:

  • Opinion formation to strengthen the regional and national conditions for competence development, talent attraction and retention. As an example you can read our commentary article published on the Nordic Life Science website: There is no science without talent (16 September, 2025).
  • Matchmaking – connecting jobseekers and employers, from promoting open positions on our website and on LinkedIn to the annual Career Day Life Science – a full day of networking, insights, opportunities, and more.
  • Training – operator training programmes in partnership with Komvux Malmö, the South Swedish Chamber of Commerce, Medeon, and regional industry partners.
  • Inspiring future talent – project-based coaching and career talks for students at Lund’s upper secondary school Katedralskolan (read more).
  • Professional networks – platforms for experienced professionals to exchange strategic knowledge, mentor peers, and stay updated.
  • International talent – through the EU Interreg financed Cross-Border Talent Bridge initiative, we help attract and integrate global expertise with cross-border career events, mentoring, and knowledge-sharing.
  • Community vibe – by combining after works with art exhibitions, Family Days, and more, we strive to make our science park into a vibrant meeting point, tailored for those who want more than just four walls.

By combining job promotion, training, mentoring, and international collaboration, we build a stronger life science workforce – ready to turn research into impact.

Top picks for job seekers in the region

We’ve compiled a selection of links to upcoming events and other resources that may be of interest to you if you are looking to learn more about how to establish yourself in the Medicon Valley labour market:

Upcoming:

 

  • Drop-in Thursday (Service Resumes), August 20, ICH Lund
    New in town? Looking for support, guidance, or just a friendly chat? You are very welcome to our weekly Drop-in, a relaxed and open meeting place where you can get answers to your questions and connect with others.
    Organiser: ICH Lund
  • From Data to Empowerment: The Power of Health Self-Tracking, 21 August, Malmö
    This talk highlights how digital health technologies enable meaningful self-tracking across diverse conditions. By examining concrete use cases, we show how monitoring physical activity and physiological patterns can support the assessment of health and its symptoms, enhance disease management, and personalize interventions. We argue that self-tracking is not merely observational, but a powerful mechanism for empowerment, bridging prevention, clinical insight, and everyday decision-making in modern healthcare.
    Organiser: Malmö University
  • Kick-Start Information Meeting (1), 25 August, Lund
    Have you moved to southern Sweden with your partner, or are you a master’s student planning to stay after your studies? The Kick-Start Program gives you the tools, knowledge, and network to navigate the Swedish and Danish job markets.
    Organiser: ICH Lund
  • Arne Ryde Conference on Crypto Fintech and Payments, 25-26 August, Copenhagen
    Conference program at the link
    Organiser: LUSEM 
  • TechBBQ, 26-27 August, Copenhagen
    Bringing startups, researchers, investors and industry together to accelerate Life Science and Deep Tech innovation. Turning science into a company is one of the hardest journeys in entrepreneurship. As a Life Science or Deep Tech founder, you might face long development cycles, regulatory complexity, and limited access to early-stage capital. Science is your foundation, but you can’t scale without the right people. Finding the right team and getting in front of the right investors is often what stands between your breakthrough and a commercial realityOrganiser: TechBBQ
  • AI Lund lunch seminar: Democratising data analysis with AI, 26 August, Online
    Citizen influence and government accountability are central aspects of a vibrant democracy. But both require fact based insights to societal development. In open societies, there is often good access to public data, but it has so far been quite complicated to analyse data based on one’s own questions. During the seminar, we will show how the Jupyter Notebooks software (a platform which uses generative AI) can enable almost anyone to analyse open data according to their questions and needs. This type of software has the potential to enable NGOs, advocacy organizations, journalists, and researchers to utilize publicly available data in more efficient ways in order to support their goals.Organiser: Lunds University / AI Lund
  • Welcome to Copenhagen, 27 August, Copenhagen
    Welcome to Greater Copenhagen – your journey in one of the most liveable places in the world has begun and we are here to make sure it’s a smooth one.
    Organiser: International House Copenhagen
  • Drop-in Thursday (Weekly), 27 August, Lund
    New in town? Looking for support, guidance, or just a friendly chat? You are very welcome to our weekly Drop-in, a relaxed and open meeting place where you can get answers to your questions and connect with others..
    Organiser: ICH Lund
  • Funding opportunities in Horizon Europe, 1 September, Lund
    All researchers at the Faculty of Medicine are welcome to a seminar on funding opportunities within the Horizon Europe programme. The seminar will place special emphasis on collaborative grants in the field of health.
    Organiser: Lunds University
  • Kick-Start Information Meeting (2), 3 September, Lund
    Have you moved to southern Sweden with your partner, or are you a master’s student planning to stay after your studies? The Kick-Start Program gives you the tools, knowledge, and network to navigate the Swedish and Danish job markets.
    Organiser: ICH Lund

Looking for a new job? Check out the listing of Open Positions on our website.

For more information, contact: