© All rights reserved. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH, Frankfurt. Provided by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Archiv SHS partner Dr. André Zimmermann reports in an interview with the FAZ on the new medical technology fund of SHS, which like its successful predecessor fund aims to invest in innovative life science companies in German-speaking countries and now also […]

André Zimmermann has taken on responsibility for the international network activities of Tuebingen-based medical technology investor SHS Gesellschaft für Beteiligungsmanagement mbH. The international business development of SHS focuses on the US healthcare market. SHS invests in healthcare companies in German-speaking countries and is a specialist for growth financing, changes in shareholder structures and successor situations. […]

CERES supports people in vegetative states by helping improve their treatment and care situation. The association for people suffering from brain damage was established in Tübingen, Germany in 1986. The first building was purchased in 2010 to provide a comfortable living space for patients and give them the opportunity to choose their own professional care […]

The family house in Tübingen provides the families of children with cancer a special supervised residence. While their children are in the hospital, the house serves the families as a “home away from home”. The family house, not only cares for parents, but also the patients’ siblings. Having the family nearby supports children with cancer […]

The family house in Tübingen provides the families of children with cancer a special supervised residence. While their children are in the hospital, the house serves the families as a “home away from home”. The family house, not only cares for parents, but also the patients’ siblings. Having the family nearby supports children with cancer […]

Each year 60.000 children are born too early in Germany. The little patients are mostly treated in special intensive care units for kids. For parents and siblings this situation often causes stress and uncertainties. To manage these difficulties and questions an association named Frühchen e.V. Reutlingen was created as a parents-initiative in the middle of […]

A hospital stay is always an exceptional situation for children and young people. Thank goodness that the Tübingen Children’s Hospital has a playroom for every ward. There, the young patients can forget their worries while they play, sing and laugh. In some wards, they can even cook together. The focus is on common activities and […]

As early as 1998, the children’s nurse Christiane Miarka-Mauthe had the idea of opening a facility for ventilated infants and toddlers, who cannot be cared for at home. In addition to receiving the required critical care, she felt that the children should be able to grow up sur-rounded by love, affection and optimal encouragement as […]

The project “KraKiaN” currently offers each year for roughly 250 children and young people the opportunity to stay in touch with their family and friends using notebooks and internet connection during their inpatient stay in the Children’s Hospital at Tuebingen. This contact is very important to the young patients as it also allows them to follow their […]

Fruehchen e.V. Reutlingen is a registered charity with 116 current members. It has been providing various types of support to the intensive care unit of the clinic for children’s and youth medicine of Klinikum am Steinenberg in Reutlingen since December 1995. Its objectives include improvement of specialist training and personnel, financial and technical/diagnostic provisions, the […]

It was under this motto that the Rottenburg “Unter Bürgern” (“Citizens Helping Citizens”) initiative and the Rottenburg Federation for Families created its joint Job Mentor project in late 2006. The objective of this project is to find a traineeship or job for young people who are having difficulties of school and will barely be able […]

The Familienzentrum Freudenstadt e. V. (Family-Centre-Freudenstadt) offers opportunities for different social groups trying herewith to compensate for deficiencies in family and social structures, which tend to get lost in our present society. The aim is to reach families and disadvantaged groups from all social classes. (i.e. ethnic German resettlers from Eastern Europe, immigrants, single parents, […]