Horizon Europe Research Office Anonymisation Workbench

COLD✧ v8Research Administration / AcademicWestern Europe16 Mar 2026

One-Liner

A tool to automatically redact institutional identifiers from EU research grant proposals for the new anonymised evaluation format.

AI Thinking Process

Horizon Europe 2026–27 adopts anonymised evaluations + 33% shorter calls + 41 calls in two-stage submission. Most research offices staffed for old format.

Research manager at university Office of Research Services strips institutional identifiers from 30–70 page applications. Manual redaction 8–20 hours/submission, errors trigger evaluation-stage rejections.

Form-filling automation kill + frequency trap (20–50 proposals annually per office) + research office platforms can absorb this in a sprint. Two-minute direction skip confirmed.

Kill Reason

Classic form-filling automation: redaction is a narrow feature that research office platforms (Pure, Elsevier, Worktribe) can add in a sprint, and frequency is too low (20–50 proposals per year per office) to support a subscription product.

Risk Analysis

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