# EU Funding Finder | Horizon Europe Grants & Calls (`andok/eu-funding-finder`) Actor

Search the official EU Funding & Tenders Portal for open and forthcoming grant calls by keyword, deadline, and status. Returns deadline, budget, eligibility snippet, and URL. $0.005/call + $0.02 start.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/andok/eu-funding-finder.md
- **Developed by:** [Andok](https://apify.com/andok) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, News
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $5.00 / 1,000 funding call founds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## EU Funding Finder | Horizon Europe Grants and Calls

Search the official **EU Funding & Tenders Portal** (SEDIA) for open and forthcoming grant calls by keyword, deadline, and status, and get clean, structured JSON back. The Actor queries the same public search API that powers the portal, then normalizes every call into a consistent record with the call ID, title, next deadline, budget, eligibility snippet, and a direct link.

It is built for grant consultants, startups, universities, NGOs, and AI agents that need to monitor EU funding opportunities such as Horizon Europe, Digital Europe, LIFE, and Erasmus+ without clicking through the portal.

### What you get per call

- `call_id` and `call_title`, plus the parent `call_name` and `call_identifier`.
- `status`: open or forthcoming (or closed if requested).
- `next_deadline` and the full `deadlines` list, `deadline_model` (single-stage, two-stage, multiple cut-off), and `open_date`.
- `budget_eur` for competitive calls, and `min_contribution_eur`, `max_contribution_eur`, `expected_grants` for Horizon topics.
- `eligibility_snippet` and `description_snippet` as plain text, with HTML removed.
- `action_type`, `programme_period`, and portal `keywords`.
- `url` that opens the call in the Funding & Tenders Portal.

### Input

```json
{
  "keywords": ["artificial intelligence", "battery"],
  "status": "upcoming",
  "deadlineAfter": "2026-11-01",
  "sortBy": "deadline",
  "limit": 25
}
```

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `keywords` | Search terms. Each is searched separately, merged, and de-duplicated. Empty lists every call matching the status. |
| `status` | `upcoming` (open + forthcoming, default), `open`, `forthcoming`, `closed`, or `any`. |
| `deadlineAfter` / `deadlineBefore` | Optional date range filter (YYYY-MM-DD) on call deadlines. |
| `sortBy` | `deadline` (soonest first) or `relevance`. |
| `limit` | Maximum calls returned and charged, 1 to 500. |

For open and forthcoming calls, calls whose deadlines have all passed are removed automatically, so your results stay actionable.

### Pricing

Pay-per-event pricing:

- **Actor start:** $0.02 once per run.
- **Funding call found:** $0.005 per call returned.

A search returning 25 calls costs $0.02 + 25 × $0.005 = **$0.145**. A weekly monitor with 10 new calls costs about **$0.07** per run. Because you pay per returned call, you can cap spending with `limit` or the run's maximum cost setting. Searches with no matches are not charged beyond the start fee.

### Typical use cases

- Weekly alerts for new calls in your sector, scheduled with Apify Schedules and sent to Slack or email via webhook.
- Feeding a grant-matching pipeline or CRM with fresh opportunities.
- Letting an AI agent answer "which EU calls close in the next 60 days about hydrogen?" with verifiable links.

### Data source and limits

Data comes from the public portal search API; no login or scraping of rendered pages is needed. Budget fields are only present when the portal publishes them for a call, so some records have `null` budgets. Snippets are short excerpts, not a replacement for reading the official call text. Always verify eligibility and deadlines on the portal before applying.

# Actor input Schema

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

Search terms such as 'artificial intelligence' or 'battery storage'. Each keyword is searched separately and results are merged and de-duplicated. Leave empty to list all calls matching the status filter.

## `status` (type: `string`):

Which calls to include. 'upcoming' means open plus forthcoming.

## `deadlineAfter` (type: `string`):

Only calls with a deadline on or after this date (YYYY-MM-DD). For open and forthcoming calls the default is today.

## `deadlineBefore` (type: `string`):

Only calls whose next deadline is on or before this date (YYYY-MM-DD).

## `sortBy` (type: `string`):

Sort by soonest deadline, or keep the portal's relevance ranking.

## `limit` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of calls returned (and charged).

## `timeoutSeconds` (type: `integer`):

HTTP timeout per request to the portal search API.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "keywords": [
    "artificial intelligence"
  ],
  "status": "upcoming",
  "sortBy": "deadline",
  "limit": 25,
  "timeoutSeconds": 30
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

## `resultsCsv` (type: `string`):

No description

## `run` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "keywords": [
        "artificial intelligence"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("andok/eu-funding-finder").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "keywords": ["artificial intelligence"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("andok/eu-funding-finder").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "keywords": [
    "artificial intelligence"
  ]
}' |
apify call andok/eu-funding-finder --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,andok/eu-funding-finder"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/19UiOorpVfDGic7Oe/builds/fsNU0Yywlzr6OMkKo/openapi.json