Sponsored by Core Solutions

eMHIC is proud to introduce a new award category for 2025: AI Innovation in Digital Mental Health, generously sponsored by Core Solutions.

This award celebrates the pioneering use of artificial intelligence to improve mental health outcomes through ethical, inclusive, and evidence-based innovation. As the capabilities of AI rapidly expand, this award highlights those applying it to address pressing mental health challenges—enhancing early intervention, improving access to care, and personalizing support—with a strong foundation in human-centered values.

Together with Core Solutions, we are proud to spotlight those setting a new global standard for responsible and compassionate innovation in digital mental health.
 

To ensure transparency, credibility, and integrity, the term “sponsored by” means that Core Solutions is the funder of the educational grant associated with the award.

• The sponsor is not involved in the judging process and plays no role in selecting the award winner.
• eMHIC administers the award process independently, and the judging panel remains impartial and is composed of qualified field experts.
• The grant funding is managed and distributed by eMHIC, not directly by the sponsor, to ensure neutrality and accountability.

To be eligible for this award, applicants must demonstrate that their project actively incorporates artificial intelligence or machine learning. Projects can be at any stage of development or implementation and must meet the following criteria:

• Use of AI: The solution must use AI or machine learning to meaningfully support or enhance mental health care, services, or outcomes.
• Impact: The scale of lives the project is (or has the potential to) positively affect.
• Value to the Community: How the project serves individuals, patients, caregivers, or systems in the digital mental health space.
• Innovation: Either a new activity never before attempted or an existing need solved in a novel or more effective way.
• Ethical and Inclusive Practice: Prioritizing user safety, equity, privacy, and cultural sensitivity in the use of AI.

The award recipient will receive a prize package that includes:

• USD $5,000 Educational Grant
  This funding must be used for professional development or project advancement. Examples include attending a conference or training course or investing in development activities that improve the recipient’s skills or project impact in the digital mental health field.
• A Complimentary Ticket to the 2026 eMHIC Congress
  The recipient will be invited to present a progress update or project insight at the following year’s global event.

• The cash grant will be held in trust by eMHIC and will not be issued directly to the recipient.
• Before release, the recipient must submit a plan for how the funds will be used, demonstrating alignment with the grant’s educational or developmental intent.
• Examples of eligible activities include:
  • Attending a relevant training or certification course
  • Presenting or participating in a digital mental health conference
  • Conducting further development on the awarded project
• All uses of funds must be pre-approved by eMHIC to ensure appropriate application and transparency.

AI Innovation in Digital Mental Health Award recognizes more than technical achievement. It celebrates vision, ethics, and commitment to advancing digital mental health in ways that leave no one behind.

Applications for the 2025 AI Innovation in Digital Mental Health Award are now open.

Nominate a changemaker or submit your entry here.