EU Funding & Grants Calls Finder – Horizon, LIFE, Digital

Find open and upcoming EU funding calls from the official EU Funding & Tenders Portal and get them as clean JSON, CSV or Excel.

Not affiliated with or endorsed by the European Commission. One row per call with programme, total budget, grant size per project, number of grants, all deadlines, days left, description and direct portal and submission links.

It covers the official EU grant topics (Horizon Europe, Digital Europe, LIFE, CEF, EU4Health, Erasmus+, Creative Europe, Single Market Programme, European Defence Fund, CERV, Innovation Fund, I3, EMFAF and more) and cascade funding / FSTP open calls – the small-ticket open calls (often €10k–€300k) that EU projects re-grant to SMEs, start-ups and researchers and that are easy to miss.

Why use this Actor?

• Official source only – the public search API behind the Funding & Tenders Portal. No login, no proxies, no paid APIs, no personal data (e-mail addresses in descriptions are removed).
• Budget per topic, not per call – the portal's budget table is parsed for exactly this topic: total budget, expected grants, min/max EU contribution.
• Stale calls removed – the portal still lists some calls as "open" after their last deadline; these are skipped by default, and nextDeadline + daysUntilDeadline are computed for you.
• Keyword, programme, deadline and budget filters, whole-word matching across title, keywords and full description.
• Only-new mode for daily or weekly funding alerts (Slack, e-mail, Google Sheets via Apify integrations).

Use cases

• Grant consultants and subsidy advisers: a weekly list of new calls per client topic (e.g. "hydrogen", "circular", "AI").
• SMEs and start-ups: find cascade funding open calls (FSTP) with deadlines in the next 30–60 days.
• Universities and research offices: monitor Horizon Europe and ERC/MSCA calls and feed them into an intranet or CRM.
• AI agents and MCP: give an agent a fresh, structured list of EU funding opportunities to match against a project description.
• Market intelligence: total EU budget per programme or theme for the coming year.

Input examples

Open Horizon Europe calls about hydrogen, soonest deadline first:

{ "keywords": ["hydrogen"], "programmes": ["HORIZON"], "maxResults": 50 }

Cascade funding for SMEs closing in the next 60 days:

{ "opportunityTypes": ["cascade"], "deadlineWithinDays": 60, "maxResults": 100 }

Weekly alert: only calls not seen before, budget of at least €5 million:

{ "keywords": ["artificial intelligence", "data"], "minBudgetEur": 5000000, "onlyNew": true, "stateKey": "ai-alert" }

Output example

{
  "status": "ok",
  "opportunityType": "grant",
  "identifier": "HORIZON-CID-2027-01-02",
  "title": "R&I in Support of the Clean Industrial Deal: Clean Technologies for Climate Action",
  "callStatus": "forthcoming",
  "programmeAcronym": "HORIZON",
  "openingDate": "2027-01-12",
  "nextDeadline": "2027-09-15T00:00:00.000Z",
  "daysUntilDeadline": 321,
  "budgetEur": 140000000,
  "expectedGrants": 8,
  "minGrantEur": 15000000,
  "maxGrantEur": 25000000,
  "matchedKeywords": ["hydrogen"],
  "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/HORIZON-CID-2027-01-02"
}

Other fields: programmePeriod, callTitle, destination, deadlineModel, budgetYears, fundingOrganiser and projectAcronym (cascade calls), crossCuttingPriorities, keywords, descriptionText, conditionsText (optional), latestUpdate, partnerSearchAllowed, submissionUrl, scrapedAt. A RUN_SUMMARY record shows how many records were scanned, matched and filtered out.

Pricing

Pay per event, no subscription:

Event	Free plan	Bronze	Silver	Gold+
Funding call saved (call-found)	$0.002	$0.0018	$0.0016	$0.0015
Actor start	$0.005	$0.005	$0.005	$0.005

100 calls cost $0.205 on the free plan. Error rows, "no results" rows and calls skipped by only-new mode are free. Use maxResults or the maximum cost per run to cap spending.

FAQ

Where does the data come from? From the public search API of the European Commission's Funding & Tenders Portal – the same data you see on the portal. Data © European Union, reuse allowed under the Commission's reuse policy (Decision 2011/833/EU).

Why does a deadline show 00:00 UTC? The API publishes the deadline date; most EU grant deadlines are at 17:00 Brussels time on that day. Cascade (FSTP) calls carry the clock time set by the organiser; it can be off by one hour versus the Brussels time shown on the portal. Always check the portal page (url) before submitting.

Are public procurement tenders included? No, this Actor is about grants. For tenders use EU Tender Radar.

Why are some budgets empty? Some calls (e.g. EIC Accelerator, some cascade calls) publish no budget per topic. Those calls are skipped when you set minBudgetEur. When several types of action share one budget line (e.g. MSCA Doctoral Networks, Joint and Industrial Doctorates) the shared amount is counted once.

Can it send alerts? Yes: enable onlyNew, schedule the Actor (daily or weekly) and connect an integration (Slack, e-mail, Make, Zapier, Google Sheets).

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