We applied to an acceleration program operated by Vodafone Foundation with the idea of creating a mobile app helping children with CF.

After the termination of the Vodafone acceleration program, we gained the main prize amounting to CZK 350,000 and invested it into first designs of the future app.

We won the Impact Award category at Startup World Cup Summit.

Our fundraising campaign #bezdechu on Giving Tuesday 2017 was a great success and Vodafone Foundation doubled the raised funds. In total we raised CZK 1,748,936 and used all of the funds for primary development of the Android version of CF Hero app.

In early 2018, we started working on the app design and development. Software development company Netvor became our partne. The unique look of the application was provided by the great and creative graphic studio Butterflies & Hurricanes.

We participated in the largest European conference on CF that took place in Belgrade and resented the CF Hero project abroad for the first time.

Android version of CF Hero is available to Czech patients in Google Play store.

We went to spread the CF Hero name to ECFS, the largest European cystic fibrosis conference. This time to Liverpool.

We successfully participated in the "Blueberry to Non-Profits" contest. Out of 30 TOP candidates, we made it to the final three together with Junák and Demagog.cz and in the end the development team decided: For winning the competition, they created an iOS app version for us.

CF Hero app presented at a physiotherapy workshop.

CF Hero won the Czech DIGI@MED Award and received a prize of CZK 100,000. 

The award was donated by Roche to startups that had contributed to the digitization and modernization of medicine and healthcare.

In late 2019, we released the Slovak version of the CF Hero app and introduced it at the 11th Slovak Cystic Fibrosis Conference.

In the summer, we took part in two international acceleration programs: HealthCare Lab and Patient Innovation Bootcamp.

This helped us move our future plans and app development further and make new contacts abroad.

The November ending of the Slovak acceleration program was extremely pleasing. We won the main jury prize of € 10,000.

iPhone app version now available to young Czech patients in App Store.

Thanks to the Vertex Circle of care grant we started to plan first steps towards the Polish app version in cooperation with patient association Fundacja MATIO.

In cooperation with the Cystic Fibrosis Patients’ Club, we released a Slovak version of the iOS app.

The CF Hero project, originally set up under the Cystic Fibrosis Patients' Association, now formally became independent. However, we are very happy that our bond with the Club remains strong.

We presented CF Hero app to Ukrainian experts and established a partnership with local patients’ association.

In cooperation with doctors and physiotherapists from Motol University Hospital and Brno University Hospital, we started a clinical study on the app.

We participated in a CF conference held by the V4 countries and advanced our collaboration with Polish and Ukrainian partners.

In cooperation with the Polish patient association Fundacja Matio and thanks to the financial support of the pharmaceutical company Vertex and the Circle of Care grant, we have launched the app for Polish patients.

Thanks to the financial support from the European Union and cooperation with the Ukrainian patient association ВГО "Всеукраїнська асоціація допомоги хворим на Муковісцидоз", the Slovak Association of Cystic Fibrosis and the hospital in Ivano-Frankivsk, the app is free to download for Ukrainian patients.