The Competence Center TANDEM – Technology and Engineering in Medicine – is set up to make results from research, development and clinical studies available to companies. It is a common platform of the University of Lübeck, Lübeck University of Applied Sciences, and University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, granting transfer of research results. TANDEM comprises 19 institutes, labs and clinics working in interdisciplinary projects and collaborating with industrial and academic partners. It also aims at furthering the North of Germany as a location for medical engineering.