Have you already received an ERC grant for your frontier research project and now want to explore the commercial or societal potential of your work? The ERC Proof of Concept Grant could be for you.
ERC 2022 Work programme launch two Proof of Concept calls:
ERC-2022-PoC1: opening on 15/07/2021 with a single deadline for submission of proposals: 14/10/2021
ERC-2022-PoC2: opening on 16/11/2021 with three deadlines for submission of proposals: 15/02/2022 – 19/05/2022 – 29/09/2022
Who can apply?
All Principal Investigators in one of the ERC frontier research main grants (Starting, Consolidator, Advanced or Synergy) are eligible to participate and apply for an ERC Proof of Concept Grant. Principal Investigators in an ongoing main grant are eligible to apply to both Proof of Concept calls. Principal Investigators in a main grant that has ended less than 12 months before 1 January 2021 are eligible to apply only to call ERC-2022-PoC1 Principal Investigators in a main grant that has ended less than 12 months before 1 January 2022 are eligible to apply to both calls ERC-2022-PoC1 and ERC-2022-PoC2.
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.
