Forty-five ERC grantees will bring the results of their frontier research closer to market thanks to Proof of Concept grants. This top-up funding will help them explore the innovation potential of their ERC-funded discoveries.

The grants will support projects covering a wide array of subjects from physical sciences and engineering to life sciences and social sciences.

These Proof of Concept grants, worth €150,000 each, can be used for example to establish intellectual property rights, investigate business opportunities or conduct technical validation. The scheme is open to ERC grant holders only. The grantees can apply for funding in one of the three rounds of the yearly call. Earlier this year the ERC announced the results of the first round.

The budget of the overall 2016 Proof of Concept competition is €20 million. In the second round of the competition 131 ERC grant holders applied.

 List of the 45 grantees by country of host institution

 

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