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

Auf Deutsch: Empfänger von EU-Fördermitteln aus den Strukturfonds (EFRE, ESF, Kohäsionsfonds) 2014–2020: Unternehmen, Kommunen und Einrichtungen mit Projekt, EU-Zuschuss, Gesamtkosten und Region – amtliche Kohesio-Daten, z. B. alle geförderten Projekte in Bayern.

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
• federal state, region (NUTS 3), postal code and coordinates, with a check of how reliable the region is
• 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-funded innovation projects above €200,000". Pass query, countries, optionally nutsPrefixes, minTotalCostEur or beneficiaryContains. For German project sizes use minTotalCostEur, not minEuBudgetEur (see Data quality). 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, state, region, nuts3, postalCode, latitude, longitude	Germany, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Rostock District, DE80K
regionCheck	postal_code (region confirmed by postal code); other values see Data quality
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",
  "state": "Mecklenburg-Vorpommern",
  "region": "Rostock District",
  "nuts3": "DE80K",
  "regionCheck": "postal_code",
  "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"],
  "minTotalCostEur": 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 quality: regions and amounts

We checked all 337,201 German projects in the source (October 2026). Two limitations of the Commission's data matter for filters:

Regions. The source assigns the region (NUTS 3) by geocoding. Where the managing authority supplied a postal code (a bit under half of German projects), region and postal code agree. Where it did not, the source geocoded a place name, and sometimes picked a place with the same name in another state: Landkreis Harburg (Lower Saxony) ended up in Donau-Ries (Bavaria), Landkreis Schaumburg in Landshut. Projects of the federal ESF programme without a postal code all sit on one placeholder point per state. Berlin and Hamburg have no NUTS 3 code at all. The Actor checks every German project against its postal code and its federal-state funding programme, and says what it found in regionCheck:

regionCheck	Meaning	Share of German ERDF
postal_code	Region confirmed by postal code	35%
programme_state	No postal code; region placed by place name and lies in the state of the funding programme. State is right, district is usually right	58%
city_state	Berlin or Hamburg, region derived from the programme	5%
conflict_removed	Source placed the project in a different state than its state programme. District and coordinates removed, state taken from the programme	0.6%
state_only	Source has no region; state taken from the programme	0.8%
placeholder_removed	Federal ESF project on a state placeholder point; district and coordinates removed, state kept	ESF only
unverified	Nothing to check against (Interreg or federal programme without postal code, other countries)	0.4%

nutsPrefixes uses the checked region. A federal-state filter such as DE2 (Bavaria) or DE3 (Berlin) is therefore reliable, and wrongly placed projects are removed. Before this check, 15% of Bavarian ERDF results were projects from other states, mostly Lower Saxony. A district filter such as DE27D is exact only for postal_code rows; for programme_state rows the district can be off when a place name exists more than once in the same state. NUTS codes are the ones Kohesio uses: NUTS 2024, which equals NUTS 2021 except in Thuringia (e.g. Wartburgkreis is DEG0R, Eisenach keeps its old code DEG0N). Checks apply to German projects only.

EU amounts. The Commission publishes the EU contribution (euBudgetEur) for only about 5% of German projects: ERDF Saxony and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, ESF Schleswig-Holstein and Interreg. For all other German programmes the field is empty, and minEuBudgetEur excludes those projects. For example, Bavarian ERDF projects have no EU amount at all. Use minTotalCostEur instead: total eligible cost is available for 99.8% of German projects.

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.

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