{"id":14119,"date":"2026-02-02T17:09:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T16:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cerca.cat\/actualitat\/noticies\/onze-projectes-dels-centres-cerca-reben-financament-del-programa-europeu-proof-of-concept-2025\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T12:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T11:19:10","slug":"onze-projectes-dels-centres-cerca-reben-financament-del-programa-europeu-proof-of-concept-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cerca.cat\/en\/actualitat\/noticies\/onze-projectes-dels-centres-cerca-reben-financament-del-programa-europeu-proof-of-concept-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Eleven CERCA centre projects receive funding from the European Proof of Concept 2025 programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The resolution of the second round of the 2025 Proof of Concept (PoC) call has recently been made public, with Catalonia obtaining 8 of the 19 grants awarded in Spain. In this round, researchers from IBEC (3 grants) and ICN2 have been recognised, along with projects linked to universities and the CSIC.<\/p>\n<p>In total, <strong>17 projects led by researchers from Catalan research institutions<\/strong> have been selected in this 2025 PoC edition, <strong>11 of which correspond to CERCA centres<\/strong>, consolidating the system as one of the main hubs for research-based innovation.<\/p>\n<p>These grants, each worth <strong>\u20ac150,000<\/strong>, enable the validation of the commercial and social potential of emerging technologies stemming from ERC projects.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Overall results of the two 2025 PoC rounds<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>300 researchers<\/strong> have obtained a PoC grant at the European level.<\/li>\n<li><strong>17<\/strong> belong to universities and research centres in Catalonia (out of <strong>42<\/strong> across Spain).<\/li>\n<li><strong>11 projects<\/strong> correspond to CERCA centres (IBEC 5, IDIBAPS 2, ICIQ, ICN2, ICFO, VHIO).<\/li>\n<li>The remaining grants in Catalonia went to UPF, UB and UPC, ICMAB\u2011CSIC, the Barcelona School of Economics and the company Neuroelectrics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eleven CERCA centre projects receive funding from the European Proof of Concept 2025 programme<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13445,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[383],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corporate"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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