24 Jan 2023
ERC announces 90 new Proof of Concept Grants
The European Research Council (ERC) has announced 90 new Proof of Concept Grants to be funded under the final round of the 2022 competition. The grants will help researchers to bridge the gap between the discoveries stemming from their frontier research and the practical application of the findings, including early phases of their commercialisation.
The ERC’s 2022 Work Programme included two calls for proposals for Proof of Concept grants with a total budget of €55 million. The total number of grantees who received this kind of funding is 366. The largest share of the Proof of Concept projects last year went to researchers in the Netherlands, Israel, France, Spain, Germany and Italy. The largest number of project originate from research in Physical Sciences and Engineering, followed by Life Sciences.