UK-based ERC Principal Investigators (PIs) have received the highest number of Proof of Concept (PoC) grants from the first deadline of the 2023 call – 12 out of the 66 funded grants.
128 proposals were submitted to the first deadline of the 2023 call, with a success rate of 54%. 55% of the funded projects are in the Physical Sciences and Engineering domain, 36% in the Life Sciences domain and 9% in the Social Sciences and Humanities.
PoC is a €150,000 top-up funding for ERC PIs to help them bridge the gap between the results of their research and the early phases of commercialisation.
The 2023 PoC call (ERC-2023-PoC) is still open with a final cut-off date of 21 September 2023.
UKRO, in its capacity as National Contact Point for the ERC, held an information webinar on 20 October 2022 for the 2023 PoC call. The recording and presentation are available here.