FAQ Short Grants – how to apply for a grant and manage the transaction

The following questions/answers focus on Short Grants
FAQ Travel Grants can be found here

You can only apply for one GRC Short Grant per semester. It is not possible to apply for a GRC Career Grant with the same project in the same period. An application for a GRC Travel Grant can be submitted at the same time.

Co-applicants must be doctoral researchers or postdocs at UZH. However, it is not a mandatory requirement to have co-applicants, you can also apply alone.

You can submit an application if you are enrolled or employed at UZH, a combination is also possible. This also applies to affiliated institutes. Associated researchers without a UZH Card can only apply if they can present a cost center UZH of an institute or chair of UZH that is willing to manage the project.

Yes, you can apply for a salary for your own scientific work as well as personnel costs for example early career researchers, student employees, experts, test subjects.

Generally not – GRC Travel Grants are made available to cover travel expenses. Exceptions are possible in justified cases.

It is possible to apply for funding for events such as workshops and writing retreats. The application should be submitted by advanced doctoral researchers and postdocs. However, the activities may also be aimed at doctoral researchers who are at the beginning of their doctoral studies. However, a project cannot be submitted for several times in succession.

The global budget must clearly contextualize the funds requested from the GRC and create transparency regarding all funding sources and flows of funds. In particular, the budget and/or a supplementary text should document and justify that and why the activity cannot be funded otherwise or to what extent other stakeholders (chair, research group, institute, faculty, UZH internal and external collaborations) are financially or materially involved in the project costs. If you have the global budget in PDF format, you can attach it to one of the other uploads. Otherwise, we recommend a short entry in the input mask in the GRC tool under the heading "Added value of the activity for your academic career".

Yes, this is possible. In the case of repeated submissions without any apparent revision, the coordination office reserves the right not to proceed to the formal review.

It may be possible to postpone the activity. All relevant changes to the project timeline must be communicated to GRC immediately and are subject to approval.

No, the two payments are independent of each other.

For all trips less than 10 hours of travel, travel by train is mandatory according to the guidelines on environmental sustainability. This requirement is binding.

The payments of the project can either be managed trough a cost center of the professor or chair holder supporting the application or an institute. Alternatively, a G-project (PSP-element) has to be set up. 

The payments are made through the cost center/G-project. Once the project has been completed and the reporting has been submitted and approved, the funds are transferred from the GRC to the cost center/G-project. More detailed information can be found in the funds transfer information sheet that is attached to the decision letter.