According to estimates, between three and seven percent of children in Germany suffer from clinically significant school anxiety—and the trend is rising. School anxiety and school avoidance can have serious and long-term effects on the development of children and adolescents. This highlights the need for early, easily accessible preventive measures.
The Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering IBMT is coordinating the BMFTR joint project “angstVRei,” which was launched in March 2025. The project is developing and evaluating a virtual reality game for the treatment of school anxiety.