Impact Funding Resources
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.
The VR Health Champions Open Call 2025 is your opportunity to real impact in the fast-growing healthcare XR sector. If you're a small and medium-sized enterprise (SMEs) and have an expertise in XR healthcare developments, this is your chance to receive up to EUR 40.000 grant and contribute directly to the development of cutting-edge solutions alongside top-tier innovators.
The VR Health Champions Open Call 2025 is your opportunity to real impact in the fast-growing healthcare XR sector. If you're a small and medium-sized enterprise (SMEs) and have an expertise in XR healthcare developments, this is your chance to receive up to EUR 40.000 grant and contribute directly to the development of cutting-edge solutions alongside top-tier innovators.
End Date21 May 2025 Funding AmountUpto EUR 40k Funding Resource TypeGrant
Funding ProviderVR Health Champions
Grant
VR Health Champions
The VR Health Champions Open Call 2025 is your opportunity to real impact in the fast-growing healthcare XR sector. If you're a small and medium-sized enterprise (SMEs) and have an expertise in XR healthcare developments, this is your chance to receive up to EUR 40.000 grant and contribute directly to the development of cutting-edge solutions alongside top-tier innovators.
It focuses on five flagship SMEs – Lightspace, 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 specialising in AR sensors, AI-driven virtual agents, VR market research, XR clinical risk frameworks, or regulatory documentation, to be strategically matched with Flagship projects through cascade funding and foster cross-sector knowledge exchange and technology transfer.
Eligible applicants are:
• SMEs as defined in EU Recommendation 2003/361/EC
• Legally established in:
• A region covered by the VR Health Champions consortium:
• Belgium: Brussels Capital region
• Germany: Oberbayern region
• Hungary: Budapest region
• Italy: Trento region
• Latvia
• Poland: Malopolska region, Lodzkie region
• Portugal: Centro Region, Grande Lisboa
• Spain: Madrid
• A less developed region in the EU
• An outermost region of the EU
• Able to demonstrate at least 1 year of business or professional activity
Applicants must select one of the five challenge areas, each aligned with the innovation roadmap of a VR Health Champions Flagship SME:
• Challenge 1: Lightspace – AR-Specific camera/sensor integration with focus on depth sensing
• Challenge 2: MedApp – Developing a Clinical Risk Assessment Framework for XR in Surgical Navigation
• Challenge 3: Metaskills - Feasibility Study, Market Strategy & Pilot Implementation for AI-Assisted VR Soft Skills Training in EU Healthcare Institutions
• Challenge 4: MEEVA – AI-based Virtual Agents in VR-based Therapy
• Challenge 5: Virtuleap - VR-Specific Technical Documentation Framework Development
