Four researchers in Sweden to receive ERC Proof of Concept Grant

The ERC Proof of Concept Grant is made available to those who already have an ERC award, and will cover activities at the very early stage of turning research outputs into a commercial or socially valuable proposition. The grant amount is 150 000 euro.

ERC-2023-PoC has a total of three deadlines. Now the results from the third round have arrived. 102 researchers from 17 different countries were awarded. Two of those are affiliated to a Swedish university.

Approved research projects from round 3

University of Gothenburg

Johan Åkerman with the project: LoRaSpin, Long-range and high-data-rate wireless communication using chirp spread spectrum modulated spintronic oscillators.

Royal Institute of Technology

Ilaria Testa with the project: DiffusOMICS; A new technology to probe molecular interaction in cells at high throughput

Approved projects from the reserve list from round 2

In addition, two researchers from the reserve list from the second round of the call, ERC-2023-PoC DL2, have been granted funding.

Karolinska Institutet

Per-Olof Berggren with the project: SILORGS, Sensor islet organoids (SILORGS) for in vivo identification of anti-diabetic drugs

Stockholm University

Tanja Slotte with the project: AdaptiveTarget, Accessing haplotype variation at complex loci with optimized targeting and adaptive sampling

The ERC website has more statistics and a list of all the grant recipients. External link.

Next deadline for ERC Proof of Concept Grant 14 Mars 2024 External link.