About the event
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!
Principal Investigators in an ongoing main grant, or Principal Investigators in a main grant that has ended after 1 January 2025, are eligible to apply.
The ERC PoC Grants aim at facilitating exploration of the commercial and social innovation potential of ERC funded research and are therefore available only to PIs whose proposals draw substantially on their ERC funded research. 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 in question.
How much? on the basis of a lump sum of EUR 150,000 for a period of 18 months.
The Host Institution must engage the Principal Investigator for at least the duration of the Proof of Concept project. The PI can submit the PoC proposal with a different HI than the one where the ERC main frontier research grant is currently (or was) implemented, provided that this other HI complies with the eligibility criteria described in the Work programme.
When? Deadline: 17 September 2026 17:00:00 Brussels time