EU Funding Recipients: companies that received EU Structural Funds (Kohesio)

Find out which companies, municipalities and institutions received EU money, for what and how much. This Actor searches the European Commission's official Kohesio database of projects financed by the EU Structural Funds in 2014–2020: ERDF, Cohesion Fund, ESF and JTF. Each project comes back as one clean row with:

• beneficiary, project title and summary
• EU contribution and total eligible cost
• fund and programme, intervention category
• region (NUTS 3), postal code and coordinates
• start and end dates
• managing authority
• links to Kohesio

For AI agents: call this Actor when a user asks "Which companies in Saxony received EU funding for hydrogen projects?", "Did company X get ERDF money?" or "List SMEs in Bavaria with EU innovation grants above €200,000". Pass query, countries, optionally nutsPrefixes, minEuBudgetEur or beneficiaryContains. Filtering happens on the Commission's API, so runs take seconds.

Price: $3 per 1,000 projects ($0.003 per result). Runs with no results cost nothing.

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What you get

Field	Example
beneficiary, beneficiaryType, beneficiaryUrl	Apex Energy Teterow GmbH, organisation, Kohesio link
title, titleOriginal, summary	English and original-language title, English summary
euBudgetEur, totalEligibleCost, cofinancingRatePct	496457.6, 620572, 80
fund, fundName, programme, programmeCode	ERDF, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern – ERDF
interventionCategory, thematicObjective	Technology transfer and university-enterprise cooperation primarily benefiting SMEs, Research and innovation
country, region, nuts3, postalCode, latitude, longitude	Germany, Rostock District, DE80K
startDate, endDate	ISO dates
managingAuthority	Authority that awarded the funds
operationId, kohesioUrl	Q3304851, https://kohesio.ec.europa.eu/en/projects/Q3304851

Example record (real output, long fields shortened):

{
  "operationId": "Q3304851",
  "title": "Promotion of cooperation between enterprises and the public. Research institutions in R & D & I",
  "titleOriginal": "Förderung der Zusammenarbeit von Unternehmen und öffentl. Forschungseinrichtungen in FuEuI",
  "summary": "Development of a domestic energy system with a focus on storage development for regenerative hydrogen. The project innovation is a new technology for storing hydrogen produced via electrolysis in formic acid or formia…",
  "beneficiary": "Apex Energy Teterow GmbH",
  "beneficiaryType": "organisation",
  "beneficiaryId": "Q3361332",
  "country": "Germany",
  "region": "Rostock District",
  "nuts3": "DE80K",
  "postalCode": "17166 - Teterow",
  "latitude": 53.771453669955,
  "longitude": 12.573520883964,
  "startDate": "2020-03-26",
  "endDate": "2023-03-31",
  "euBudgetEur": 496457.6,
  "totalEligibleCost": 620572,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "cofinancingRatePct": 80,
  "fund": "ERDF",
  "fundName": "European Regional Development Fund",
  "programmeCode": "2014DE16RFOP008",
  "programme": "Mecklenburg-Vorpommern  - ERDF",
  "interventionCategory": "Technology transfer and university-enterprise cooperation primarily benefiting SMEs",
  "thematicObjective": "Research and innovation",
  "managingAuthority": "Staatskanzlei M-V, Gemeinsame Verwaltungsbehörde (GVB) – Verwaltungsbehörde für den EFRE, ESF und ELER; Ministerium für Wirtschaft, Arbeit und Gesundheit M-V, EFRE-Fondsverwaltung",
  "kohesioUrl": "https://kohesio.ec.europa.eu/en/projects/Q3304851",
  "beneficiaryUrl": "https://kohesio.ec.europa.eu/en/beneficiaries/Q3361332",
  "programmingPeriod": "2014-2020",
  "source": "Source: European Commission, DG Regional and Urban Policy – Kohesio 2014-2020 projects (cohesiondata.ec.europa.eu, CC0 1.0)"
}

Use cases

• B2B sales and lead generation: companies that just completed EU-funded investments in innovation, energy efficiency or digitalisation are proven investors in your topic.
• Funding consultants: find who already won funding in a region or category, and benchmark project sizes.
• Due diligence and journalism: check a company's or municipality's EU funding history.
• Research: analyse regional distribution of EU funds.

Input example

{
  "query": "Wasserstoff",
  "countries": ["DE"],
  "nutsPrefixes": ["DED", "DEE", "DEG"],
  "funds": ["ERDF"],
  "minEuBudgetEur": 200000,
  "maxResults": 500
}

Coverage: the Commission publishes beneficiary names mainly for Germany (about 333,000 projects), Portugal, Greece, Hungary, the Netherlands and Slovakia. For other countries, most rows have no beneficiary name and are skipped. The dataset covers the 2014–2020 programming period, with projects running until 2023.

Data protection

EU funding data also contains individuals, for example sole traders or ESF participants. By default (organisationsOnly: true) the Actor returns only beneficiaries recognisable as organisations by their legal form or type: GmbH, AG, e.V., Ltd, S.A., city, district, university, chamber and so on. Anonymised beneficiaries are skipped as well. The social funds ESF and YEI are excluded by default. If you switch these settings off, you are responsible for GDPR-compliant use.

Reliability

• You pay only for valid rows in your dataset. The run stops at maxResults or at your maximum cost per run.
• Every row is validated: Kohesio ID, title, beneficiary, ISO dates, coordinates and amounts. If the API returns something unexpected, the run fails with UNEXPECTED_CONTENT instead of returning garbage.

Source and licence

European Commission, DG Regional and Urban Policy: 2014–2020 Kohesio projects, published on cohesiondata.ec.europa.eu under CC0 1.0. This Actor is not affiliated with the European Commission.