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Four researchers in Sweden to receive ERC Proof of Concept Grant 2024
It has now been decided who will recieve an ERC Proof of Concept Grant in the last round of the call 2024. Four researchers are affiliated to a Swedish host institution.
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-2024-PoC has a total of two deadlines. Now the results from the second round have arrived. 134 researchers from 20 different countries were awarded. Four of those are affiliated to a Swedish host institution.
Results from the first round of the call 2024
Approved research projects from round 2
University of Gothenburg
Giovanni Volpe with the project MiniTweezer: Optical Tweezers with Automation and Artificial Intelligence
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Madeline Balaam with the project Pneu-Haptics: Unlocking the Potential of a Haptic Cueing System for Driver Communication, Collaboration and Control with (Semi-) Autonomous Vehicles
Karolinska Institutet
Gunilla Karlsson Hedestam with the project GlobalPROTECT; Global-Ig: a population-based antibody library technique to optimize the development of globally protective vaccines
Stockholm University
Marc Friedländer with the project Food quality control by RNA profiling (foodRNA)
The ERC website has more statistics and a list of all the grant recipients
External link.
Next deadline for ERC Proof of Concept Grant is 13 March, and then 18 September.
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