United Kingdom: Extended Reality (XR) for Digital Mental Health – Strand 1

Deadline: 12-Oct-22

UK registered businesses and collaborative partners can apply for a share of up to £4 million across Strand 1 of the competition. This is for R&D projects that provide digital mental health therapeutic solutions.

Aims

• The aim of this competition is to enable improved delivery of mental health and wellbeing services, through the application of immersive technologies.
• Your project must undertake research and development, in the form of feasibility studies, in the application of Extended Reality (XR) to provide mental health care solutions.
• This would be specifically to explore how digital therapeutic content can provide positive mental health applications and outcomes for both young adults (aged 13 and above) and older adults.
• Your project must demonstrate that the solution could be applied, trialled and ultimately adopted at scale, to provide a broad benefit to the UK mental health sector.

Specific Themes

Your project must focus on a digital mental health therapy through the application of Extended Reality (XR).

Funding Information

Your project’s total project costs must be between £50,000 and £100,000.

Eligibility Criteria

• Your project must:
  • Start by 01 April 2023
  • End by 30 September 2023
  • Last between 3 months and 6 months
  • Carry out all of its project work in the UK
  • Intend to exploit the results from or in the UK
• You must only include eligible project costs in your application.
• Under current restrictions, this competition will not fund any procurement, commercial, business development or supply chain activity with any Russian or Belarusian entity as lead, partner or subcontractor. This includes any goods or services originating from a Russian or Belarusian source.
• If you have not requested approval or your application has not been approved by them, you will be made ineligible. Your application will then not be sent for assessment.
• Lead organisation
  • To lead a project or work alone your organisation
  • Must be a UK registered business of any size.
  • Can collaborate with other UK registered organisations
  • Academic institutions and RTOs cannot lead or work alone.
• Project team
  • To collaborate with the lead, your organisation must be one of the following UK registered:
    • Business of any size, including social ventures
    • Academic institution
    • Charity
    • Not for profit
    • Public sector organisation
    • Research and technology organisation (RTO)
  • Each partner organisation must be invited into the Innovation Funding Service by the lead to collaborate on a project. Once accepted, partners will be asked to login or to create an account and enter their own project costs into the Innovation Funding Service.
  • If collaborative, the lead and at least one other organisation must claim funding by entering their costs during the application.
  • Your project can include partners that do not receive any of this competition’s funding, for example non-UK businesses. Their costs will count towards the total project costs.
• Subcontractors
  • Subcontractors are allowed in this competition.
  • Subcontractors can be from anywhere in the UK and you must select them through your usual procurement process.
  • You can use subcontractors from overseas but must make the case in your application as to why you could not use suppliers from the UK.
  • You must provide a detailed rationale, evidence of the potential UK contractors you approached and the reasons why they were unable to work with you. They will not accept a cheaper cost as a sufficient reason to use an overseas subcontractor.
  • All subcontractor costs must be justified and appropriate to the total project costs.

Ineligible

Projects they will not fund

• They are not funding projects that are:
• Early stage research
• Unsuitable for potential trial following an R&D cycle of up to 2 years
• They cannot fund projects that are:
  • Dependent on export performance – for example giving a subsidy to a baker on the condition that it exports a certain quantity of bread to another country
  • Dependent on domestic inputs usage- for example giving a subsidy to a baker on the condition that it uses 50% UK flour in their product.

For more information, visit Innovate UK.

 

 

 

 

For more information, visit https://apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/competition/1292/overview/6b0ff485-6386-4b12-a25f-309719249169