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Programmes ERCThe results of the 2024 European Research Council (ERC) Proof of Concept (PoC) Grant call (2nd deadline date 17 September 2024) were published. Principal Investigators (PIs) with a main ERC Grant that is ongoing or ended after 1 January 2023 are eligible to participate in an ERC 2024 PoC Grant. The ERC PoC 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.
For this call in total 134 ERC PoC Grants were awarded to PIs working in 20 different countries across Europe. In the ERCEA news articles more background on the evaluation results and several project examples are highlighted. Among the 134 selected researchers are at least nine based at Flemish host institutions. The projects of several PIs are presented in the news articles of Universiteit Gent and VIB.
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The Miricle project, ‘Mine Risk Clearance for Europe’, obtained funding under the European Defence Industrial Development programme call ‘Underwater control contributing to resilience at sea’. The main objective of the project was to achieve a European and sovereign capacity in future mine warfare and create a path for the next generation ‘made in Europe’ countermeasure solutions. In order to realise this objective, Miricle addressed various stages: studies, design, prototyping and testing. These stages inter alia included the successful testing of an XL Unmanned Underwater Vehicle, a protototyped mine disposal system and multiple innovative systems to detect buried mines. Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), was one of the five Belgian partners in the consortium. Within the project, VLIZ was able to forward its research on the acoustic imaging of the seabed to spatially map and visualize buried structures and objects - in this case buried mines - in the highest possible detail. VLIZ also led the work on ‘Port and Offshore Testing’, building on the expertise of the institute in the field of marine operations and technology.