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ERC Proof of Concept 2014

121 projects were funded under the ERC Proof of Concept in 2014, across 18 countries.

Most-funded institutions

  • WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE7
  • AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS4
  • CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS4
  • TECHNION - ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY4
  • THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD4
  • BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY3
  • CENTRE INTERNACIONAL DE METODES NUMERICS EN ENGINYERIA3
  • KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN3

Funded projects

  • commercialisation TridimensiOnal Nanoporous ALumIna Templates

    AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS · ES · €149,953

  • Fast Data Acquisition and Servo Technologies

    AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS · ES · €149,897.50

  • A portable single-molecule fluorescence imager

    THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD · GB · €150,000

  • Development of pregnenolone derivatives as allosteric inhibitors of CB1 cannabinoid receptors for the treatment of schizophrenia and psychotic syndromes

    INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA SANTE ET DE LA RECHERCHE MEDICALE · FR · €150,000

  • ExtraLytics: Big Data Analytics for Real Estate

    THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD · GB · €148,377

  • Development of a new plant variety for the Asian market

    IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE · GB · €148,307

  • Flow Machines

    SORBONNE UNIVERSITE · FR · €145,500

  • Optical Coherence Tomography for Intraocular Lenses

    AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS · ES · €150,000

  • An innovative tool for non-invasive evaluation of myocardial stiffness

    INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA SANTE ET DE LA RECHERCHE MEDICALE · FR · €149,750

  • Large Area organic devices with Bar-assisted meniscus shearing technology

    AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS · ES · €149,999

  • Optimal Person-Machine Sensorimotor Coupler for Application to Micro-Manufacturing

    SORBONNE UNIVERSITE · FR · €150,000

  • Personal perception for predicting product choice

    THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD · GB · €135,776

  • Tracing tropical timber

    WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY · NL · €148,387

  • Versatile optomechANical GRaphene Device for bio-tissue engineering

    CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE · IT · €150,000

  • New chemical detection methods based on NMR and nanoparticles

    UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PADOVA · IT · €150,000

  • DHaptics: Creating silent and sharp Mid-air Haptics using phased array of ultrasound transducers

    THE UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX · GB · €149,170

  • Silencing miR-199b to attenuate the progression of heart failure.

    UNIVERSITEIT MAASTRICHT · NL · €150,000

  • Extracting Super-Resolution from Classical Fluorescence Microscopy

    STICHTING VU · NL · €150,000

  • The EDUCAGE: A Behavioral Platform for Naturalistic Learning

    THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM · IL · €150,000

  • Ultrafast Spatiotemporally-Encoding: A Superior Approach to Cancer Diagnosis by Non-Invasive Diffusion-Weighted MRI

    WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE · IL · €150,000

  • Virtual Environments for Social Training

    UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS · CY · €147,687.50

  • Antibody-free method for Counting All Circulating TUmour cellS while maintaining them alive and intact

    UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI UDINE · IT · €149,875

  • Frustrated Power: Proton-Electrolyte-Membrane Hydrogen Fuel Cells Catalyzed by Frustrated Lewis Pairs

    UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA · GB · €149,533.75

  • SolarPredict: An advanced predictive tool and service of the Solar 11-yr Activity Cycle

    COMMISSARIAT A L ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES · FR · €149,913

  • Treatment of EGFR over-expressing cancers by targeted non-viral delivery of PolyIC

    THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM · IL · €150,000

  • Integrated quantum correlation counter

    TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT · NL · €150,000

  • BreAking the Link betweeN myo10 and CancEr

    TURUN YLIOPISTO · FI · €150,000

  • Next-generation of high performance, ultra-light carbon nanotube based heaters

    THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE · GB · €149,995

  • Real-Time Monitoring System for Water Quality

    UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS · CY · €150,000

  • Development of the Gas-Solid Vortex-Rotor Reactor

    UNIVERSITEIT GENT · BE · €149,900

  • Electric-field driven magnetic domain wall motion for memory technologies

    AALTO KORKEAKOULUSAATIO SR · FI · €149,778

  • Multi-revolution non-volatile magnetic sensors

    JOHANNES GUTENBERG-UNIVERSITAT MAINZ · DE · €150,000

  • Mid Infrared SpectrometerS by an Innovative Optical iNterferometer

    POLITECNICO DI MILANO · IT · €149,625

  • Ink-Jet printed supercapacitors based on 2D nanomaterials.

    THE PROVOST, FELLOWS, FOUNDATION SCHOLARS & THE OTHER MEMBERS OF BOARD, OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY & UNDIVIDED TRINITY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH NEAR DUBLIN · IE · €149,774

  • A gene expression test in blood for breast cancer

    UNIVERSITETET I TROMSOE - NORGES ARKTISKE UNIVERSITET · NO · €143,933

  • Compliant Actuation Robotic Platform for Flexible Endoscopy

    UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE · GB · €150,000

  • Medical Phase Contrast X-ray Imaging with Laser Plasma Accelerator

    CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR · €149,851

  • Flow Visualization Based Pressure

    TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT · NL · €148,750

  • PETRA - Photonic Environment moniToring Risk Assessment

    CONSORZIO NAZIONALE INTERUNIVERSITARIO PER LE TELECOMUNICAZIONI (CNIT) · IT · €150,000

  • Hand pose and gesture analysis for next generation device interaction

    TECHNION - ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · IL · €150,000

  • Commercialization of Wear3D - Wearable and 3D Display Technology

    KOC UNIVERSITY · TR · €150,000

  • INTRASTEM: High Efficiency Delivery of Proteins, Nucleic Acids and Particles to Human Cells

    THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM · GB · €147,489

  • ToothPic, a large-scale camera identification system based on compressed fingerprints

    POLITECNICO DI TORINO · IT · €149,526

  • A Nano-electrode chip for high-resolution/high-throughput cellular assays in cultured neurons including synaptic tranmission

    STICHTING AMSTERDAM UMC · NL · €149,475

  • Highly Conductive Graphene Ink

    THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE · GB · €149,949

  • Optical Ultrasound Imaging for Real-time Guidance of Intracardiac Procedures

    UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON · GB · €149,624

  • Hybrid Membranes Incorporating Metal-Organic Frameworks

    THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER · GB · €147,963.75

  • ASSESSMENT AND INITIAL STEPS FOR THE EXPLOITATION OF A FAST SIMULATION SOFTWARE FOR CASTING MANUFACTURING OPERATIONS

    CENTRE INTERNACIONAL DE METODES NUMERICS EN ENGINYERIA · ES · €149,963

  • Exploiting vulnerabilities in protein synthesis for cancer diagnosis and therapy

    STICHTING HET NEDERLANDS KANKER INSTITUUT-ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK ZIEKENHUIS · NL · €149,500

  • Industrial implementation of adaptive computational methods for turbulent flow and fluid-structure interaction

    KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN · SE · €146,897

  • Drug eDesign: Building the next generation of software solutions for drug design

    BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER CENTRO NACIONAL DE SUPERCOMPUTACION · ES · €148,875

  • High-throughput drug screening for identifying personalized cancer treatments tailored to the particular mutations of the patient’s tumor

    WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE · IL · €150,000

  • Launching Acoustic Force Spectroscopy - unlocking the potential of biomolecular bungee jumping

    STICHTING VU · NL · €150,000

  • Inkjet Printed Ultrafast Batteries and Large Integrated Capacitors

    KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN · SE · €150,000

  • Biofouling control in nanofiltration and reverse osmosis processes using a smart polymer approach

    UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, DUBLIN · IE · €149,909.68

  • Blue Combustion for the Storage of Green Electrical Power

    TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT BERLIN · DE · €150,000

  • A potent Micro-RNA therapeutic for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)

    THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM · IL · €149,800

  • INTERconnects enhanced by colloidal qDOT based optical amplifiers

    UNIVERSITEIT GENT · BE · €145,000

  • A new instrument for mapping the ultrafast photo-conductivity of materials for optoelectronics

    STICHTING NEDERLANDSE WETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK INSTITUTEN · NL · €148,750

  • Automated Microhandling System for X-ray Crystallography

    EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH · CH · €148,885

  • miRNA-activated Scaffold Technologies for Cartilage Regeneration

    ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND · IE · €149,450

  • KidsSurgicalPlan: An Internet enterprise for sketch-based cardiovascular pre-surgical planning

    KOC UNIVERSITY · TR · €150,000

  • Medically Licensed Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.

    UNIVERSITY OF GALWAY · IE · €149,101

  • A Streptavidin Microarray Platform for Capturing of Circulating Tumor Cells from the Blood of Cancer Patients

    UNIVERSITAETSKLINIKUM HAMBURG-EPPENDORF · DE · €149,750

  • Distributed Cryptography Module

    BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY · IL · €149,776

  • Membrane fusion mediated dermal allergy immunotherapy

    UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN · NL · €150,000

  • Preclinical development of squalenic acid and gemcitabine squalene nanomedicine

    UNIVERSITE PARIS-SACLAY · FR · €150,000

  • Photon Cross Correlation Spectroscopy

    CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR · €149,984

  • Blocking SUMO conjugation as drug discovery strategy.

    CENTRE DE RECERCA EN AGRIGENOMICA CSIC-IRTA-UAB-UB · ES · €150,000

  • Validation of a conceptually new treatment for glioblastoma multiforme with an IP protected small molecule

    KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET · SE · €149,693

  • Microfluidic platform for intra-operative tumor immunohistochemistry

    ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE · CH · €150,000

  • DDRNA-based cancer therapy targeted telomeres

    IFOM-ISTITUTO FONDAZIONE DI ONCOLOGIA MOLECOLARE ETS · IT · €149,425

  • Novel solutions for assessing child cognitive function

    TAMPEREEN KORKEAKOULUSAATIO SR · FI · €148,708.75

  • COLOStage : A new prognosis test for the prediction of metastasis in Colorectal Cancer and Hepatocellular Carcinoma

    FUNDACIO INSTITUT DE RECERCA BIOMEDICA (IRB BARCELONA) · ES · €150,000

  • DNA rEpair impaired Mice with accElerated Neurodegeneration as Tool to Improve Alzheimer therapeutics

    ERASMUS UNIVERSITAIR MEDISCH CENTRUM ROTTERDAM · NL · €150,000

  • On a free open source extreme scale finite element software

    CENTRE INTERNACIONAL DE METODES NUMERICS EN ENGINYERIA · ES · €149,250

  • Silicon mid-infrared photodetectors

    UNIVERSITY OF SURREY · GB · €149,967

  • Water column profiler for quantification of photosynthesis and biomass of phytoplankton in natural and man made water bodies

    BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY · IL · €149,775

  • Automated framework for rapid simulations of high-detail brain models

    ERASMUS UNIVERSITAIR MEDISCH CENTRUM ROTTERDAM · NL · €149,937

  • Exploring the Potential for Therapeutic Lineage Reprogramming of Diabetes

    MAX DELBRUECK CENTRUM FUER MOLEKULARE MEDIZIN IN DER HELMHOLTZ-GEMEINSCHAFT (MDC) · DE · €150,000

  • CoPIRL: Compact High Power Picosecond Infrared Laser for Scar Free Surgery and Bio-Diagnostics.

    MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV · DE · €78,125

  • Highly-lubricated soft contact lenses

    WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE · IL · €150,000

  • SIngle Molecule DEtection and Quantification (SIMDEQ): A new platform for genetic and epigenetic analysis

    CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR · €148,500

  • Precise and non-GMO Engineering of Nutritional Factors for Breeding High Quality Crops

    WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE · IL · €150,000

  • Forecasting and Monitoring Economic Indicators

    UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS · CY · €150,000

  • Zinc finger gene therapy in the brain for treating Huntington's disease

    IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE · GB · €149,995

  • Novel enhancers of functional recovery after stroke

    RUPRECHT-KARLS-UNIVERSITAET HEIDELBERG · DE · €147,968

  • A Non-Invasive Test for Guiding Follow–up of Patients with CT-Detected Lung Nodules

    TECHNION - ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · IL · €150,000

  • Integral Membrane Proteins – an Approach to Rank Target Stability

    THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD · GB · €145,501

  • A new process for the manufacture of methanol from waste glycerol

    CARDIFF UNIVERSITY · GB · €149,994

  • Nano-diamond tracers for MRI molecular imaging

    UNIVERSITAET ULM · DE · €147,500

  • Delivery of PULmonary Therapeutics through TARgetted Delivery using Phononics

    UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW · GB · €149,791

  • Development of a more effective and safer therapeutic antibody for cancer treatment with a dual mechanism of action to eliminate CSCs and reactivate the tumour’s immune system.

    FUNDACIO PRIVADA INSTITUT D'INVESTIGACIO ONCOLOGICA DE VALL-HEBRON (VHIO) · ES · €150,000

  • Minimal invasive x-ray source enabled by a novel vacuum packaging technique

    KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN · SE · €150,000

  • Sequence-Enabled Single cEll Identification device

    WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE · IL · €150,000

  • Ultra-sensitive Thermal Nanoscale Microscope

    WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE · IL · €150,000

  • Morphogenetically active blood vessels: Proof-of-Concept

    UNIVERSITAETSMEDIZIN DER JOHANNES GUTENBERG-UNIVERSITAET MAINZ · DE · €149,962

  • Low Temperature Ceramics Applications

    OULUN YLIOPISTO · FI · €150,000

  • A Solar-Powered Hydrolyzer

    FUNDACIO INSTITUT CATALA D'INVESTIGACIO QUIMICA · ES · €150,000

  • Development of a ncRNA DNA Methylation Kit for the Diagnosis of Cancer of Unknown Primary

    FUNDACIO INSTITUT D'INVESTIGACIO BIOMEDICA DE BELLVITGE · ES · €149,278

  • Terahertz wireless information systems and technologies

    DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET · DK · €146,400

  • ASESSMENT AND INITIAL STEPS FOR THE EXPLOITATION OF A SIMULATION SOFTWARE FOR THE STUDY AND MITIGATION OF THE EFFECT OF FLOODS ON CONSTRUCTIONS AND LANDSCAPE

    CENTRE INTERNACIONAL DE METODES NUMERICS EN ENGINYERIA · ES · €149,856

  • An Automatic Microfluidic Device Assembly System

    BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY · IL · €150,000

  • Spatial super-resolution of electrophysiological measurements

    TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY · IL · €150,000

  • Prognosis and Diagnosis of Protein Misfolding Diseases by Seeded Aggregation in Microspheres

    THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE · GB · €149,972

  • A new reconstructing technique using tissue engineering methods to create an engineered autologous vascularized tissue flap

    TECHNION - ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · IL · €147,500

  • Rapid and Inexpensive Diagnosis of Heparin Induced Thrombocytopenia Using Glycan Arrays Containing Synthetic Glycosaminoglycans

    MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV · DE · €147,094

  • A commercial device for mercury isotope monitoring (MIMO)

    CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS · FR · €150,000

  • Development of a New Wavelength Scanning Interferometer for Embedded Metrology

    UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD · GB · €149,662

  • Simultaneous three dimensional multiphoton microscopy without mechanical depth scanning

    TECHNION - ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · IL · €150,000

  • Developing Novel and Optimal Additive Solutions for Red Blood Cells

    HASKOLI ISLANDS · IS · €150,000

  • APPROAcH: Antimicrobial and Save 3D-Printable Polymers for Oral Health

    RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN · NL · €150,000

  • Mobile 3D Modeling

    EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH · CH · €150,000

  • Exploitation of Organic Electrochemical Transistors for Biological Ionsensing – Proof Of Concept

    ASSOCIATION POUR LA RECHERCHE ET LE DEVELOPPEMENT DES METHODES ET PROCESSUS INDUSTRIELS · FR · €149,673

  • Digital Bridge: Optical Character Recognition for Early Printed Books in Latin

    UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM · GB · €148,178

  • Novel heart regeneration strategies

    WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE · IL · €150,000

  • Explore the potentialities of biostealth coatings for tissue engineering and reconstructive medicine

    UNIVERSITEIT TWENTE · NL · €150,000

  • Imaging with Photon Counting: Reduced costs, increased dynamic range

    STICHTING VU · NL · €147,500

  • Hypermethylated DNA detection using NanoGaps

    UNIVERSITEIT TWENTE · NL · €149,578.75

  • CHIRALSENSE : Sensing Chirality using cavity-enhanced polarimetry: advances in sensitivity and time-resolution

    IDRYMA TECHNOLOGIAS KAI EREVNAS · GR · €150,000

  • Ratiometric FRET Based Nanosensors for Trypsin Related Human Recessive Diseases

    FUNDACIO INSTITUT CATALA D'INVESTIGACIO QUIMICA · ES · €150,000