The ERC announces the second round of winners for the Proof of Concept (PoC) grant 2024.
In this final round of the 2024 PoC competition, 134 projects will receive support, bringing the total number of grants awarded under the 2024 work programme to 245 worth €36.75 million.
The 134 new grantees of this second round work in 20 different countries across Europe. The highest number of grants will be hosted in Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands (15 each), followed by Spain and the UK (14 each), Israel (12), Belgium (11), France (10), Denmark (6), Austria (5), Sweden (4), Ireland (3), Finland and Norway (2), Croatia, Czechia, Cyprus, Poland, Portugal, Turkey (1 each).
Each grant is worth €150,000 and helps ERC grantees bridge the gap between the results of their pioneering research and the early phases of its commercialisation. The PoC funding is used to develop findings they have made during former or current research projects.
To be eligible for the Proof of Concept grant scheme, researchers must already be awarded an ERC frontier research grant. UKRI-funded ERC frontier grants are not eligible for PoC.