Funding is available for immersive digital mental health therapeutic solutions.

Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, will invest up to £4.5 million in innovation projects across the two strands of the Mindset XR competition.

The aim of this competition is to develop digital therapeutic extended reality (XR) solutions to provide improved delivery of mental health and wellbeing services.

This competition is split into two strands:

Your project must undertake feasibility studies or industrial research in the application of XR to provide mental health care solutions. Your proposal must specifically explore how digital therapeutic content can provide positive mental health applications and outcomes for young adults (aged 13 and above) or older adults. Your project must also demonstrate that the solution could be applied, trialled and ultimately adopted at scale, to provide a broad benefit to the UK mental health sector.

The deadline for applications to both strands of this competition is 11am on Wednesday 6 December 2023. To find out more about the competition, potential applicants are invited to register for an online briefing and applicant workshop, taking place on Thursday 12 October 2023.