H2020 Call for proposals for ERC Proof of Concept Grant 2019

The European Commission has published a new call for proposals under the main pillar Excellent Science (ES) of the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation - Horizon 2020. The Call for proposals for ERC Proof of Concept Grant - ERC-2019-PoC has a budget of € 25,000,000. The call will be open soon. The first cut-off date is January 22, 2019, the second and third deadlines are April 25, 2019 and September 19, 2019. Funding will be up to € 150,000 for a period of 18 months.

Frontier research often generates unexpected or new opportunities for commercial or societal application. The ERC Proof of Concept Grants aim to maximise the value of the excellent research that the ERC funds, by funding further work (i.e. activities which were not scheduled to be funded by the original ERC frontier research grant) to verify the innovation potential of ideas arising from ERC funded projects. Proof of Concept Grants are therefore on offer only to Principal Investigators whose proposals draw substantially on their ERC funded research.

The European Research Council supports frontier research, cross disciplinary proposals and pioneering ideas in new and emerging fields which introduce unconventional and innovative approaches. The ERC's mission is to encourage the highest quality research in Europe through competitive funding and to support investigator-driven frontier research across all fields of research, on the basis of scientific excellence.