Medical Valley Award

Turn your research into a start-up!

With the Medical Valley Award, the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy (StMWi) supports academic pre-seed projects in the fields of medical technology and the healthcare industry. With pre-seed funding of up to €500,000, the award aims to support research projects with spin-off potential at an early stage and to accompany them for two years until they are ready for spin-off. In addition to financial support, the five best teams receive expert advice in the form of workshops, mentoring or coaching. Universities, university hospitals, non-university research institutions or universities of applied sciences from Bavaria can apply.

Main topics

• Innovative imaging diagnostics
• Novel concepts for and with integrated sensor technology
• Technologies to support health promotion and prevention
• Innovative platform technologies in the field of prediction, prognostics or diagnostics in medical technology (including approaches based on the use of digital technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning)
• Innovative medical technology or medical informatics-based therapy or rehabilitation formats
• Innovative approaches in the field of digital health in medical technology (especially if there is potential in terms of reimbursement by health insurance providers under the Digital Healthcare Act DVG)
• Digitally supported concepts for integrated care
• Robotics & human-machine interface solutions in the healthcare sector, e.g. in the area of care

Selection criteria

For a successful application, the research work must fulfill the following conditions:

• A particularly technically and scientifically challenging and innovative product or process idea
• The project must be associated with considerable but calculable technical and scientific risks
• There must be a clear intention on the part of the team to commercialize the concept
• A company must not yet have been founded or business operations must not have commenced (this is only permitted during the funding period)
• Positive intellectual property rights situation and connectivity at the end of the funding period

Further information

More information on the conditions of participation and the application deadline can be found on the homepage of the Medical Valley Award.