Principal Investigators with a main European Research Council grant that is ongoing or ended less than 12 months before 1 January of the call year are eligible to participate in an ERC Proof of Concept Grant. The ERC Proof of Concept Grants aim at facilitating exploration of the commercial and social innovation potential of ERC funded research and are therefore available only to PIs whose proposals draw substantially on their ERC funded research. The results of the 2023 Proof of Concept call (2nd cut-off 20 April 2023) were published. In total 66 ERC grant holders received a Proof of Concept grant including five researchers based at a Flemish host institution. More information on the Proof of Concept call results can be found in the press release of ERCEA.

• Alexander Bertrand, KU Leuven, “DisPatch EEG - Distributed wireless EEG sensor patches for auditory attention decoding in hearing technology” which builds on research funded by the 2018 Starting grant “DISPATCH Neuro-Sense”
• Anna Kaczmarek, Universiteit Gent, “LUMITOOLS - LUMInescence ThermOmeters fOr cLinicS” which builds on research funded by the 2020 Starting grant “NORTH”. Find out more on LUMITOOLS in this article of Universiteit Gent
• Benson Ogunjimi, Universiteit Antwerpen, “CELLULO-EPI-BASE - Modeling how pre-existing TCR clones affect vaccine-induced T-cell responses” which builds on research funded by the 2019 Starting grant “CELLULO-EPI”
• Nele Vandersickel, Universiteit Gent, “AT-TOP - Using Topology To Revolutionize Atrial Tachycardia Treatment” which builds on research funded by the 2020 Starting grant “SMARTHEART”. Find out more on AT-TOP in this article of Universiteit Gent
• Koen Vandewal, Universiteit Hasselt, “ORGUP - ORGanic UPconversion device for SWIR imaging” which builds on research funded by the 2019 Consolidator grant “ConTROL”