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title: "CRS Seed Grants funded at University of Zurich; ca. 80,000 CHF available"
sdDatePublished: "2026-05-13T10:08:00Z"
source: "https://www.crs.uzh.ch/en/news/2026-News/Four-CRS-Seed-Grants-Funded.html"
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locations:
  - "Basel-Stadt"
  - "Bern-Mittelland"
  - "Zürich"
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CRS Seed Grants funded at University of Zurich; ca. 80,000 CHF available

CRS-Seed-Grants-Funded | Center for Reproducible Science and Research Synthesis | UZH

Four CRS Seed Grants Funded

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1st Interdisciplinary Symposium on Meta Science for Methods Research

13.05.2026Four CRS Seed Grants Funded

CRS Seed Grants: Four projects approved

To foster innovation and establish collaborations in interdisciplinary research synthesis and meta-research, the CRS launched thefirst Call for CRS Seed Grant proposalsin January 2026. With a total of ca. 80’000 CHF available, the evaluation committee selected four proposals for funding:

ARRIVE-Check: Automated Assessment of ARRIVE Reporting Quality in Animal Studies Using NLP and LLM-Assisted Document AnalysisAlexandra Bannach-Brown, Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern

REPRO-SIGN: State of Reproducibility in Sign Language ProcessingMathias Müller, Postdoctoral Researcher, Digital Society Initiative und Department of Computational Linguistics, University of Zurich

When Benchmark Rankings Mislead: A Meta-Research Study of Evaluation Robustness in Biomedical Image AnalysisProf. Oliver Faude, and Paul Ritsche, PhD student, Department of Sport, Physical Activity and Health, University of Basel

Evaluating Evaluation: Benchmarking Practices for Foundation Models in Single-cell Perturbation PredictionSiyuan Luo, PhD student, Laboratory of Nutrition and Metabolic Epigenetics, ETHZ

Department of Molecular Life Sciences, Robinson Group, University of Zurich

The CRS has received 42 applications for CRS Seed Grants. The CRS thanks all applicants for their thoughtful and interesting proposals.

Each application was attributed to two reviewers, taking into account possible conflicts of interests (joint publications, work at the same institute

department, or personal relations). The reviewers were recruited from within theCRS Steering Committeeand theCRS Advisory Board. Each reviewer provided an assessment based on the evaluation criteria described in the call, including an overall grade on a five-level scale. Funding decisions were taken in one evaluation meeting of all reviewers.

A majority of applications were submitted by researchers at the Universities of Zurich (13 proposals) and Bern (11 proposals). The funding available was sufficient for the proposals that received at least once the best overall score, and no score below the second-best score. With 42 applications, this resulted in a success rate of 9.5%.

A second call for proposals will be launched in the first half of the year 2027. The available funding and research themes will be the same as in the first call. We will further develop the evaluation procedure with the goal of providing more useful feedback to the applicants and adopting recent innovations in peer review.