Final Proof of Concept Grants announced
Wed Jan 25 09:53:33 CET 2023
On January 24, The European Research Council (ERC) announced 90 new Proof of Concept Grants, concluding the final round of the 2022 competition.
The Proof of Concept (PofC) grants are part of the Horizon Europe funding programme. Each PofC grant of 150,000 euro is inteded only for prior recipients of one of the ERC grants and helps the awardee translate their findings into practical application, including early phases of their commercialisation.
The ERC’s 2022 total budget for PofC grants amounted to 55 million euro. The majority of grants were distributed to awardees from the Netherlands, Israel, France, Spain, Germany and Italy in the fields of Physical Sciences and Engineering and Life Sciences. Altogether 366 PofC grants were disbursed in 2022. One awardee is from the Czech Republic: Milan Vrabel from the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
Other statistical data including the list of grantees and projects is available in this Press Release.
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