Horizon Europe | ERC Proof of Concept Grants
The ERC Proof of Concept Grants aim at facilitating exploration of the commercial and social innovation potential of ERC funded research and are therefore available only to Principal Investigators whose proposals draw substantially on their ERC funded research.
Criteria
The ERC Proof of Concept funding is made available only to those who already have an ERC award to establish proof of concept of an idea that was generated in the course of their ERC-funded projects.
Proof of Concept Grants aim at maximising the value of the excellent research that the ERC funds, by funding further work (i.e. activities which were not scheduled to be funded by the original ERC frontier research grant) to verify the innovation potential of ideas arising from ERC funded projects.
Objective
The objective is to enable ERC-funded ideas to progress on the path from ground-breaking research towards innovation.
Host institution
The Host Institution must engage the Principal Investigator for at least the duration of the Proof of Concept project.
The Host Institution must either be established in an EU Member State or Associated Country (AC) as a legal entity created under national law, the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC) or any other entity created under EU law.
Further information and submissions via the funding and tenders portal of the European Commission.