ERC Proof of Concept 2027

Funded projects

• Gene Regulatory Analysis for Stress in Plants

  UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN · NL · €150,000

• Functional cementitious materials for energy harvesting

  TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT DELFT · NL · €150,000

• Standardized patient‑friendly computational language mapping to guide epilepsy surgery

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

• Translation-Guided RNA engineering Platform for Cardiac disease

  JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE-UNIVERSITAET FRANKFURT AM MAIN · DE · €150,000

• Conditioned CAR-T cells (cirCAR-T) for enhanced tumor immmunotherapy

  UNIVERSITE DE GENEVE · CH · €150,000

• Metabolic Hepatoprotection to Enable Curative Cancer Therapy in Patients with Vulnerable Livers

  UNIVERSITAET BERN · CH · €150,000

• Single-Atom Cartridges: From Powder to Product

  POLITECNICO DI MILANO · IT · €150,000

• Short Tandem Repeat Instability QuantIfier for Next-Generation sequencing

  DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUR NEURODEGENERATIVE ERKRANKUNGEN EV · DE · €150,000

• LIVEMAP: Live-cell mapping of drug–protein interactions across the human proteome

  DEUTSCHES KREBSFORSCHUNGSZENTRUM HEIDELBERG · DE · €150,000

• Robust and Scalable Catalytic Ball Milling for Plastic Recycling (Scalable IMPACT)

  UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT · NL · €150,000

• Sustainable and Ultra-PeRforming supercApacitors with 3D Laser-Induced Graphene (SUPRALIG)

  POLITECNICO DI TORINO · IT · €150,000

• DeepSonic: Deep sea soundscapes from machine learning

  UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON · UK · €150,000

• Scalable MXene-Based Thermal Shields for Next-Generation Radar and Aerospace Electronics

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

• Targeting liquid organelles to develop new antiviral strategies against influenza A virus infections

  UNIVERSIDADE CATOLICA PORTUGUESA · PT · €150,000

• Lipopolysaccharide Lipid A Profiling to Guide Microbiome-Supported Immunotherapy in Melanoma

  UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI FEDERICO II · IT · €150,000

• Engineering microglia to treat Alzheimer’s disease

  VIB VZW · BE · €150,000

• Biocompatible agents for preventive diagnostics in vascular disease

  TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN · DE · €150,000

• Utilising the principles of excluded volume effect to heal cutaneous pathologies using in vitro engineered cell-assembled living substitutes

  PANEPISTIMIO IOANNINON · EL · €150,000

• Live-testing a light-speed gravity-based tsunami warning system

  INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DEVELOPPEMENT · FR · €150,000

• Automated Security Validation for Zero-Knowledge Systems

  TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET WIEN · AT · €150,000

• Multi-model Approach for Runup and INundation Analysis

  UNIVERSITA CA' FOSCARI VENEZIA · IT · €150,000

• Safeguard Repressor-Mediated Cell Fate Lock Gene Therapy for Glioblastoma

  DEUTSCHES KREBSFORSCHUNGSZENTRUM HEIDELBERG · DE · €150,000

• AD-LINK: Reversing Early Aβ-Driven Network Hyperexcitability

  VIB VZW · BE · €150,000

• Next-Gen Immunomodulatory Nanoplatforms Targeting Regulatory T Cell Metabolism to combat cancer

  IDRYMA IATROVIOLOGIKON EREUNON AKADEMIAS ATHINON · EL · €150,000

• Self-powered wireless sensor node through ultrahigh performance energy storage capacitors

  SILICON AUSTRIA LABS GMBH · AT · €150,000