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