diff --git a/packages/core/src/render3/instructions.ts b/packages/core/src/render3/instructions.ts
index 593577b095..ded6568583 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/render3/instructions.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/render3/instructions.ts
@@ -1563,6 +1563,9 @@ export function embeddedViewEnd(): void {
     const lContainer = containerNode.data;
 
     if (creationMode) {
+      // When projected nodes are going to be inserted, the renderParent of the dynamic container
+      // used by the ViewContainerRef must be set.
+      setRenderParentInProjectedNodes(lContainer.renderParent, viewNode);
       // it is a new view, insert it into collection of views for a given container
       insertView(containerNode, viewNode, lContainer.nextIndex);
     }
@@ -1574,6 +1577,32 @@ export function embeddedViewEnd(): void {
   ngDevMode && assertNodeType(previousOrParentNode, LNodeType.View);
 }
 
+/**
+ * For nodes which are projected inside an embedded view, this function sets the renderParent
+ * of their dynamic LContainerNode.
+ * @param renderParent the renderParent of the LContainer which contains the embedded view.
+ * @param viewNode the embedded view.
+ */
+function setRenderParentInProjectedNodes(
+    renderParent: LElementNode | null, viewNode: LViewNode): void {
+  if (renderParent != null) {
+    let node = viewNode.child;
+    while (node) {
+      if (node.type === LNodeType.Projection) {
+        let nodeToProject: LNode|null = (node as LProjectionNode).data.head;
+        const lastNodeToProject = (node as LProjectionNode).data.tail;
+        while (nodeToProject) {
+          if (nodeToProject.dynamicLContainerNode) {
+            nodeToProject.dynamicLContainerNode.data.renderParent = renderParent;
+          }
+          nodeToProject = nodeToProject === lastNodeToProject ? null : nodeToProject.pNextOrParent;
+        }
+      }
+      node = node.next;
+    }
+  }
+}
+
 /////////////
 
 /**
diff --git a/packages/core/test/render3/view_container_ref_spec.ts b/packages/core/test/render3/view_container_ref_spec.ts
index 4b49204b57..a79c7ba365 100644
--- a/packages/core/test/render3/view_container_ref_spec.ts
+++ b/packages/core/test/render3/view_container_ref_spec.ts
@@ -471,7 +471,7 @@ describe('ViewContainerRef', () => {
       textBinding(1, ctx.name);
     }
 
-    it('should project the ViewContainerRef content along its host', () => {
+    it('should project the ViewContainerRef content along its host, in an element', () => {
       @Component({selector: 'child', template: '<div><ng-content></ng-content></div>'})
       class Child {
         static ngComponentDef = defineComponent({
@@ -532,6 +532,86 @@ describe('ViewContainerRef', () => {
           .toEqual('<child><div><header vcref="">blah</header><span>bar</span></div></child>');
     });
 
+    it('should project the ViewContainerRef content along its host, in a view', () => {
+      @Component({
+        selector: 'child-with-view',
+        template: `
+      % if (show) {
+        <ng-content></ng-content>
+      % }`
+      })
+      class ChildWithView {
+        show: boolean = true;
+        static ngComponentDef = defineComponent({
+          type: ChildWithView,
+          selectors: [['child-with-view']],
+          factory: () => new ChildWithView(),
+          template: (rf: RenderFlags, cmp: ChildWithView) => {
+            if (rf & RenderFlags.Create) {
+              projectionDef(0);
+              container(1);
+            }
+            if (rf & RenderFlags.Update) {
+              containerRefreshStart(1);
+              if (cmp.show) {
+                let rf0 = embeddedViewStart(0);
+                if (rf0 & RenderFlags.Create) {
+                  projection(0, 0);
+                }
+                embeddedViewEnd();
+              }
+              containerRefreshEnd();
+            }
+          }
+        });
+      }
+
+      @Component({
+        selector: 'parent',
+        template: `
+          <ng-template #foo>
+              <span>{{name}}</span>
+          </ng-template>
+          <child-with-view>
+            <header vcref [tplRef]="foo" [name]="name">blah</header>
+          </child-with-view>`
+      })
+      class Parent {
+        name: string = 'bar';
+        static ngComponentDef = defineComponent({
+          type: Parent,
+          selectors: [['parent']],
+          factory: () => new Parent(),
+          template: (rf: RenderFlags, cmp: Parent) => {
+            if (rf & RenderFlags.Create) {
+              container(0, embeddedTemplate);
+              elementStart(1, 'child-with-view');
+              elementStart(2, 'header', ['vcref', '']);
+              text(3, 'blah');
+              elementEnd();
+              elementEnd();
+            }
+            if (rf & RenderFlags.Update) {
+              const tplRef = getOrCreateTemplateRef(getOrCreateNodeInjectorForNode(load(0)));
+              elementProperty(2, 'tplRef', bind(tplRef));
+              elementProperty(2, 'name', bind(cmp.name));
+            }
+          },
+          directives: [ChildWithView, DirectiveWithVCRef]
+        });
+      }
+
+      const fixture = new ComponentFixture(Parent);
+      expect(fixture.html)
+          .toEqual('<child-with-view><header vcref="">blah</header></child-with-view>');
+
+      directiveInstance !.vcref.createEmbeddedView(directiveInstance !.tplRef, fixture.component);
+      fixture.update();
+      expect(fixture.html)
+          .toEqual(
+              '<child-with-view><header vcref="">blah</header><span>bar</span></child-with-view>');
+    });
+
     describe('with select', () => {
       @Component({
         selector: 'child-with-selector',