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 financial contribution is a lump-sum of 150,000 Euro for a maximum period of 18 months.
Contact:
For your questions regarding the call and support in the preparation of your proposal, please contact us, the ERC National Contact Points at TÜBİTAK, through ncperc@tubitak.gov.tr.
Information about ERC-2025-PoC Call
ERC-2025-PoC call was launched on 13 November 2024 and will close with two deadlines (cut-off dates) on 13 March 2025 and 18 September 2025. The time frame for evaluation can be found here. Submission rules are summarized below:
A Principal Investigator may submit only one application per call.
Principal Investigators with an active main grant (StG, CoG, AdG, or SyG), or Principal Investigators whose main grant concluded after 1 January 2024, are eligible to apply
A maximum of three Proof of Concept Grants may be awarded per main grant project (6 for SyG)
If you would like to apply for ERC Principal Investigator Programme (EBAG) where you can get financial support for project writing training and pre-evaluation support you can have more information here.
Offical Call Page
Important documents for the call
Information for Applicants to the Proof of Concept 2025 Call
Application form (HE ERC PoC 2025) (rtf. format is available in submission system)
ERC Guide for Peer Reviewers (PoC)
List of ERC Panel Members
2011-2023 PoC List of Panel Members (aggregated)
Note: You can review the Panel Members serving since 2014 using the search engine available on the ERC's website. (new!)
Additional Documents
Multi & Mono Model Grant Agreement for Lump Sum Grants
EU Financial Regulation 2018/1046
Rules for Legal Entity Validation, LEAR Appointment and Financial Capacity Assessment
Funding & Tenders Portal Online Manual
Funding & Tenders Portal Terms and Conditions
Funding & Tenders Portal Privacy Statement
Association agreements to Horizon Europe
Information Regarding the Closed ERC-2024-PoC Call
ERC-2024-PoC call was launched on 16 November 2024 and closed with two deadlines (cut-off dates) on 14 March 2024 and 17 September 2024.
You can access the statistics and list of selected projects here: 1st cut-off & 2nd cut-off. This call received a total of 698 applications in two rounds, reflecting a 24% increase compared to the previous call. 245 projects are selected to be funded with €36.75 million.
