Innovation, Market and Society Grants Overview

• Take-off

  Valuable research results sometimes threaten to go unused because knowledge and innovations must endure a difficult path to the market. Financing is needed to bridge the divide between the research and the market. The program Take-off bridges this funding gap in the early phase of an undertaking.

  Take-off consists of two components:

  • Feasibility studies (phase 1) – maximum length: 6 months
  • Early stage routes (phase 2) – maximum length: 24 months

  Feasibility studies (phase 1) - round 2023
  Deadline pre-proposal: February, 7 2023
  Deadline full-proposal: March 7, 2023 

  2023-spring round
  Call for proposals (only in Dutch)
  Pre-proposal application form
  Full-proposal application form

  Vroegefasetrajecten (phase 2) – round 2023
  Deadline pre-proposal: February 7, 2023
  Deadline full-proposal: March 7, 2023

  2023-spring round 
  Call for proposals (only in Dutch)
  Pre-proposal application form
  Full-proposal application form

  
  

• Demonstrator

  This program provides funding to further develop knowledge into a product or service at the level of a ‘Minimal Viable Product’, or a minimal functional basic version of the knowledge with a Technology Readiness Level of 4 (TRL 4: "technology validated in the lab"). In addition, the demonstration model must be validated with relevant stakeholders, at the level of SRL 4 (Societal Readiness Level 4).

  Round 2023
  Deadline submission: March 21, 2023 

  Call for proposals
  Application form

  
  

• ERC - Proof of Concept (only for ERC laureates)

  This grant is for researchers who already received an ERC grant for their frontier research project and now want to explore the commercial or societal potential of their work.

  Round 2025
  Round opens: November 13, 2024
  Deadline submission (round I): March 13, 2025
  Deadline submission (round II): September 18, 2025
  
  ERC Work Programme 2025