26 September 2025
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It's that time again: applications for the National Care Innovation Award are open! For ten years, the National Care Innovation Award has been helping healthcare entrepreneurs get their healthcare innovation to market faster and scale up. And now it's your chance! Do you have a healthcare innovation that has already been successfully implemented? Do you want to further expand your market or make your innovation visible? Then sign up!
Gain a chance to win €10,000
.Enterprises that have already worked out, tested and launched their innovation can often use a boost to really make their venture a success. That is why Zorginnovatie.nl annually awards the National Care Innovation Prize; the prize for the most innovative company in the scale-up phase. You have a chance to win the jury prize worth €10,000 or the public prize worth €5,000. The National Care Innovation Prize is sponsored by ING.
."Winning the National Care Innovation Prize not only gave more visibility, connections and confidence in our innovative standing wheelchair, but was a confirmation that we are moving in the right direction to achieve our goal: to give people back more independence and dignity." - Gabriel Costa, 2025 jury award winner
Trajectory full of opportunity and growth
The National Care Innovation Prize is about more than prize money alone. The pathway offers the finalists several opportunities to highlight their innovation and further strengthen their business.
From November 2025 to January 2026, the regional preliminary rounds will take place, organized by the regional partners of Zorginnovatie.nl. Here, entrepreneurs pitch their innovation to a wide audience. Each region produces one regional winner who advances to the national finals.
Finalists receive valuable support, including pitchtraining and participation in the Finalist Day, where a professional pitch video is recorded and meetings with the Zorginnovatie.nl network take place.
"Participation in the National Care Innovation Award not only provided a lot of recognition, but was also a wonderful opportunity to meet future clients and partners. Our success in the regional preliminary round allowed more people to find us." - Bart Geerts, Healthplus.ai (North Holland regional winner, 2023)
From pitch to exhibition stand: visibility on two major stages
On March 12, 2026, the final of the Nationale Zorginnovatieprijs will take place at the Health Valley Event, the most progressive healthcare innovation event in the Netherlands. Here the finalists pitch their innovation to over 600 attendees as well as an expert jury. Each finalist also has its own stand on the exhibition floor of the event to bring their innovation to the attention of the visitors.
In conclusion, the finalists will be at Zorg & ict, the largest health tech event in the Netherlands, from April 14-16, 2026. With more than 10,000 visitors, this is a great opportunity to make the finalists' innovations visible to all industry stakeholders. The finalists will have a stand on the exhibition floor and we will close the event on April 15 with the festive announcement of the winners on the Mainstage.