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ERC Proof of Concept grants - final round 2025 announced

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6 of the 12 French grant-winners in the European Research Council's (ERC) 'Proof of Concept' call for 2025 come from the CNRS.

The European Research Council (ERC) has selected 136 candidate projects submitted for the Horizon Europe framework programme's 'Proof of Concept' call. This includes 12 in France and 6 for which CNRS is the host organisation. 

This call is for scientists who were awarded an ERC Starting, Consolidator, Advanced or Synergy grant less than a year earlier and now wish to exploit the results of their research, develop their innovation potential and foster closer links with the market. These grants are worth a maximum of €150,000 over up to 18 months and are intended to support the commercial and societal potential of previous ERC grant-winning projects.

In the final round 2025, 6 grant-winners are hosted by the CNRS:

  • Cécile Albert – Research Professor at the Institut méditerranéen de biodiversité et d'écologie marine et continentale (CNRS/Aix-Marseille Université/Avignon Université/IRD) for the project BioValidR - Validating the Biodiversity Value of nature restoration scenarios for resilient territories
  • Alexandre Aubry – Research Professor at the Institut Langevin (CNRS/ ESPECI Paris-PSL) for the project DIONISOS - DIfferential Operator for Non-ionizing Imaging of breast tumors with Speed-Of-Sound
  • Sophie Carenco – Research Professor at the Centre Interdisciplinaire de Nanoscience de Marseille (CNRS/Aix-Marseille Université/INSERM) for the project PRELUDE - Precise Deuteration at the Tailored Surface of Nickel Phosphide Nanocatalysts
  • Adrien Carretero – Research Professor at the Institut d’Electronique et des Systèmes (CNRS/Université de Montpellier) for the project Q-BOT - Quartz position photodetectors for large-area sensing and high-precision sustainable Robotics
  • Christophe Maurel – Research Professor at the Institut des Sciences des Plantes de Montpellier (CNRS/INRAE/Université de Montpellier/L’Institut Agro) for the project FoodDrought – Producing Cereal Food under Drought : a Root-based Approach to Plant Improvement
  • Camille Roth – Research Professor at the Centre d’analyses et de mathématiques sociales (CNRS/EHESS) for the project HyperQuest- Hyperquest – semantic hypergraphs for augmented information retrieval