# EU Grants & Contracts Recipients (FTS) (`dach-open-data/eu-grants-contracts-fts`) Actor

Who gets money from the EU budget? Grants, service contracts and procurement awarded directly by the European Commission (Horizon Europe, Erasmus+, Digital Europe, development aid …): beneficiary, VAT, address, amount, programme, project, dates. Official FTS open data, CC BY 4.0.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/dach-open-data/eu-grants-contracts-fts.md
- **Developed by:** [DACH Open Data](https://apify.com/dach-open-data) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, AI
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## Pricing

from $5.00 / 1,000 results

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

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# README

## EU Grants & Contracts Recipients (FTS)

**Find out who receives money directly from the EU budget.** Each row is one recipient of one EU grant, service contract or purchase. The European Commission and its agencies award these directly: Horizon Europe, Erasmus+, Digital Europe, LIFE, EU4Health, Connecting Europe Facility, development and humanitarian aid, consulting, IT and other services. Each row includes:

- recipient name, type, VAT number and registration number
- address, city, NUTS 2 region and country
- amount in EUR (contracted and already paid out), plus the total amount of the commitment
- programme, budget line, responsible Commission department or agency
- subject or project title, project acronym, call ID and project ID
- type of contract, start and end date
- flags for coordinator, non-profit and NGO

The data comes from the Commission's official **Financial Transparency System (FTS)**, CC BY 4.0. About 80,000–110,000 rows are published per year, for 2007 to 2025.

**For AI agents:** call this Actor when a user asks *"Which German companies got Horizon Europe grants?"*, *"How much EU money did Fraunhofer receive in 2025?"*, *"Which consultancies in Austria win EU service contracts?"* or *"List Swiss universities in EU projects"*. Pass `countries`, `programmes`, `beneficiaryContains`, `query`, `contractTypes` or `minAmountEur`. Leave `years` empty for the latest year.

**Price: $5 per 1,000 rows ($0.005 per result).** You pay only for rows delivered to your dataset.

***

### What you get

| Field | Example |
|---|---|
| `beneficiary`, `beneficiaryAlternativeName` | *KARLSRUHER INSTITUT FUR TECHNOLOGIE* (second name in another language, if published) |
| `beneficiaryType` | `Private Companies`, `Other public bodies`, `International Organisations`, … |
| `vatNumber`, `registrationNumber` | `DE266749428` |
| `address`, `postalCode`, `city`, `nuts2`, `country`, `countryCode` | *KAISERSTRASSE 12*, `76131`, *KARLSRUHE*, *Karlsruhe*, *Germany*, `DE` |
| `amountEur` | `1057325.01`, the recipient's contracted amount |
| `estimatedContractedEur`, `estimatedConsumedEur`, `commitmentTotalEur` | Estimated share, amount paid so far, total of the commitment (all partners) |
| `programme`, `budgetLine`, `budgetLineNumber` | *1.0.11 - Horizon Europe*, *European Innovation Council*, `01 02 03 01` |
| `department` | *EISMEA - Eur.Innov.Coun. & SMEs EA* |
| `subject`, `projectAcronym`, `projectId`, `callId` | Project title, `C-SINC`, `101223135`, `HORIZON-EIC-2024-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01` |
| `contractType`, `managementType`, `expenseType` | `Action Grant`, `Direct management`, `Operational` |
| `coordinator`, `nonProfit`, `ngo` | `true` / `false` / `null` (as published) |
| `startDate`, `endDate`, `year` | `2025-10-01`, `2029-09-30`, `2025` |
| `commitmentReference`, `source` | Budget reference and attribution |

Example record (real output):

```json
{
  "year": 2025,
  "beneficiary": "KARLSRUHER INSTITUT FUR TECHNOLOGIE",
  "beneficiaryAlternativeName": null,
  "beneficiaryType": "Other public bodies",
  "vatNumber": "DE266749428",
  "registrationNumber": null,
  "nonProfit": false,
  "ngo": false,
  "coordinator": false,
  "address": "KAISERSTRASSE 12",
  "postalCode": "76131",
  "city": "KARLSRUHE",
  "country": "Germany",
  "countryCode": "DE",
  "nuts2": "Karlsruhe",
  "amountEur": 1057325.01,
  "estimatedContractedEur": 1057325.01,
  "estimatedConsumedEur": 560382.25,
  "commitmentTotalEur": 3997434,
  "subject": "CONCRETE PRODUCTS THROUGH SUSTAINABLE AND INNOVATIVE CARBON-STORING BINDERS",
  "programme": "1.0.11 - Horizon Europe",
  "budgetLine": "European Innovation Council",
  "budgetLineNumber": "01 02 03 01",
  "department": "EISMEA - Eur.Innov.Coun. & SMEs EA",
  "callId": "HORIZON-EIC-2024-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01",
  "projectId": "101223135",
  "projectAcronym": "C-SINC",
  "contractType": "Action Grant",
  "managementType": "Direct management",
  "expenseType": "Operational",
  "startDate": "2025-10-01",
  "endDate": "2029-09-30",
  "commitmentReference": "4500140611.00010",
  "source": "Source: European Commission – Financial Transparency System (FTS), https://ec.europa.eu/budget/financial-transparency-system, licensed CC BY 4.0"
}
```

### Use cases

- **B2B sales and business development:** find companies and research institutes with fresh EU funding in your field. They have budget and often need partners, suppliers or consultants.
- **Grant consultants:** see who wins which calls, with the call ID, project and amount.
- **Competitor and market analysis:** which consultancies, IT providers or event agencies win Commission service contracts, and for how much.
- **Due diligence, journalism and research:** EU money per organisation, region, programme or year.
- **Partner search for EU projects:** coordinators and partners of past projects by topic (`query`) and country.

### Input examples

German companies and institutes with Horizon Europe grants of at least €1 million (latest year):

```json
{ "countries": ["DE"], "programmes": ["Horizon Europe"], "minAmountEur": 1000000, "maxResults": 500 }
```

All EU money for one organisation over several years:

```json
{ "beneficiaryContains": "Fraunhofer", "years": ["2025", "2024", "2023"], "maxResults": 5000 }
```

Consulting and study contracts won by Austrian firms:

```json
{ "countries": ["AT"], "contractTypes": ["Advisory"], "beneficiaryTypes": ["Private Companies"] }
```

### Coverage

- **Included:** money that the Commission, its executive agencies, EU agencies and Joint Undertakings manage directly. Some indirect management (e.g. through international organisations) is included too. In short: the part of the EU budget that the Member States do not manage.
- **Not included:** EU funds that national or regional authorities manage, such as ERDF, ESF+ and agricultural payments. For ERDF and Cohesion Fund recipients use our Actor [EU Funding Recipients – Structural Funds (Kohesio)](https://apify.com/dach-open-data/eu-funding-recipients-kohesio).
- **Timing:** the Commission publishes each year around the middle of the following year. `years` empty = the latest published year.
- **Names** are spelled as published, mostly in capital letters and without accents.

### Reliability and fair use

- One download per year (one official Excel file of 15–20 MB). The Actor makes no other requests to the Commission.
- The Actor checks that the file really is a spreadsheet and that the expected columns exist. If the Commission changes the format, the run fails with `UNEXPECTED_CONTENT`. You never get garbage.
- Every row is validated: name, year, country, programme, amount and ISO dates. Invalid rows are dropped and not charged. If more than 20% are invalid, the run stops.
- The run stops at `maxResults` or at your maximum cost per run. A typical run takes under one minute.

### Legal and privacy

- Source: European Commission, Financial Transparency System. Reuse is allowed under CC BY 4.0 (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU). Every row carries the attribution.
- **Private persons are never returned**, not even on request. The Commission publishes some natural persons (e.g. prize winners and experts). This Actor skips them all.
- Internal EU money flows (EU institutions, agencies, EIB, EIF) are hidden by default (`excludeEuBodies`).
- This Actor is not affiliated with the European Commission. Only the official FTS is authoritative.

# Actor input Schema

## `years` (type: `array`):

Commitment years 2007 to last year, e.g. 2025, 2024. Empty = the latest published year (the Commission publishes a year around mid of the following year). Each year has 80,000–110,000 rows; max. 5 years per run.

## `countries` (type: `array`):

ISO codes (DE, AT, CH, FR, …; EL/UK also accepted) or English names. Empty = all countries.

## `query` (type: `string`):

All words must appear in beneficiary name, subject/project title, programme, project acronym or budget line, e.g. "hydrogen", "battery", "university". Case-insensitive.

## `beneficiaryContains` (type: `string`):

Only recipients whose (legal) name contains this text, e.g. "Fraunhofer", "Siemens", "GmbH".

## `programmes` (type: `array`):

Programme names or parts of them, e.g. "Horizon Europe", "Erasmus+", "Digital Europe", "LIFE", "Connecting Europe Facility", "EU4Health", "Global Europe", "Innovation Fund". Empty = all programmes.

## `contractTypes` (type: `array`):

Part of the name is enough, e.g. "Action Grant", "Operating Grant", "Prizes", "Contribution Agreements", "Advisory" (consulting, studies, evaluations, R\&D services), "IT" (software development and operations), "Events", "Communication", "Building", "Training". Empty = all.

## `beneficiaryTypes` (type: `array`):

E.g. "Private Companies" (companies, associations, universities, foundations), "Other public bodies", "International Organisations", "Member States", "Regions-Provinces", "Third States". Private persons are never returned.

## `minAmountEur` (type: `integer`):

Only rows where the beneficiary's contracted amount is at least this value.

## `skipZeroAmounts` (type: `boolean`):

Skip rows whose contracted amount is 0 or not published (e.g. unfunded associated partners, about 3% of rows).

## `excludeEuBodies` (type: `boolean`):

Skip transfers to EU institutions, EU agencies, Joint Undertakings, EIB and EIF (internal EU money flows). Recommended for sales and market research.

## `includeAddress` (type: `boolean`):

Include street and postal code of the recipient (city, region and country are always included).

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Hard cap on rows returned and charged in this run.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "years": [],
  "countries": [
    "DE"
  ],
  "query": "",
  "beneficiaryContains": "",
  "programmes": [],
  "contractTypes": [],
  "beneficiaryTypes": [],
  "minAmountEur": 0,
  "skipZeroAmounts": true,
  "excludeEuBodies": true,
  "includeAddress": true,
  "maxResults": 50
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

All records returned by this run (default dataset, table view "overview").

## `summary` (type: `string`):

JSON with number of results, dropped implausible records and stop reason.

# 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 = {
    "countries": [
        "DE"
    ],
    "maxResults": 50
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("dach-open-data/eu-grants-contracts-fts").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 = {
    "countries": ["DE"],
    "maxResults": 50,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("dach-open-data/eu-grants-contracts-fts").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 '{
  "countries": [
    "DE"
  ],
  "maxResults": 50
}' |
apify call dach-open-data/eu-grants-contracts-fts --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,dach-open-data/eu-grants-contracts-fts"
        }
    }
}
```

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/tJ7D6Z6AF4uc6S9f5/builds/fFIhAQKTdj8pvkm9Q/openapi.json