Budget
Funding rate: 100% Budget conditions / limitations: 60.000 per project (lump sum).
Key dates and deadline
Apply by 30 November 2025, 23:59 CET!
Details
VR Health Champions is a 3-year project aiming at breaking down market, clinical and regulatory barriers in XR healthcare across less developed regions of Central Eastern and Southern Europe, while fast-tracking the advancement of VR/AR applications. It focuses on five flagship SMEs – Dotlumen, MEEVA, MedApp, Metaskills, and Virtuleap – that are leading this transformation. The project’s outcome is to upgrade their Technology Readiness Level (TRL) for VR/AR innovations from TRL 6 to TRL 9, ultimately creating pathways for future innovations in the sector. To achieve this, VR Health Champions is now seeking SMEs active in areas such as clinical research, medical imaging, healthcare IT and AI, behavioral sciences, regulatory affairs, marketing and go-to-market strategies, market analysis, software testing, UX design, and computer vision, to be strategically matched with Flagship projects through cascade funding and to foster cross-sector knowledge exchange and technology transfer. Projects developing, testing, or piloting innovative Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), or Extended Reality (XR) applications and solutions that improve human-centred healthcare delivery. These should focus on the use of immersive technologies for diagnostics, therapy, rehabilitation, training, or patient engagement.
Eligibility
Applications can be submitted by single SMEs, startups, or research teams, but consortium applications involving healthcare providers, research organisations, or technology developers are encouraged. Applicants must be legally established in EU Member States or Horizon Europe Associated Countries. The call is open to SMEs, startups, research groups, and healthcare organisations. Applicants must comply with the Horizon Europe cascade funding eligibility rules.
Additional information
How to apply?
https://vrhealthchampions.eu/get-involved/