ERC - Proof of concept

If, as a receiver of an ERC grant, you are interested in exploring the innovation potential of your work, the ERC is here to help.

ERC Proof of Concept Grants are designed to support ERC grantees with the commercial or societal application of the results of their funded research. 

ERC Proof of Concept in brief

• Eligibility: all Principal Investigators benefitting from an ERC Advanced, Synergy, Consolidator or Starting Grant that is either ongoing, or where the project has ended less than 12 months before the publication date of an ERC Proof of Concept call. The Principal Investigator must be able to demonstrate the relation between the idea to be taken to proof of concept and the ERC frontier research project (Starting, Consolidator, Advanced or Synergy) in question.
• Funding:up to € 150.000 per grant 
  More than one Proof of Concept Grant may be awarded per ERC funded frontier research project but only one Proof of Concept project may be running at any one time for the same ERC frontier research project.
• Duration:up to 18 months
• Calls for proposals:published once a year with three deadlines, a Principal Investigator may submit only one eligible application per call. Applications can be submitted at any time from the opening date of the call until the final deadline and will be evaluated and selected in three rounds, based on three specific deadlines.