EU Funding Calls: Horizon Europe, Digital Europe, LIFE, cascade funding

Every currently open or announced EU funding call, with dead entries removed. One run returns clean rows with:

• programme and type of call
• submission period and deadline
• budget
• type of action and topic tags
• the official link

Data comes from the European Commission's official EU Funding & Tenders Portal search API.

Why this Actor and not the raw portal search? The portal's search index still lists hundreds of calls from previous years as open. In our tests that was about 650 of roughly 1,190 entries. This Actor checks every deadline and returns only calls you can actually still apply to, or that are announced.

For AI agents: call this Actor when a user asks "Which EU calls on hydrogen are open right now?", "Show Horizon Europe calls with deadlines in December", "Find cascade funding (FSTP) calls for start-ups". Pass query and, optionally, programmes, callTypes, deadlineAfter / deadlineBefore and maxResults. Results arrive in under a minute.

Price: $5 per 1,000 calls ($0.005 per result). Runs with no results cost nothing.

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What you get

Field	Example
source	EU_FUNDING_TENDERS
id, callIdentifier	HORIZON-CL6-2026-04-GOVERNANCE-01, HORIZON-CL6-2026-04
title, callTitle	Topic title and call title
callType	grant, cascade_funding (third-party calls by EU projects, often for SMEs), tender
programme	Horizon Europe (HORIZON), Digital Europe Programme (DIGITAL), LIFE, …
funder	European Commission / EU agency, or the EU project running a cascade call
status	open or forthcoming (expired calls are never returned)
submissionPeriod	{ "from": "2026-08-25", "to": "2026-11-26" }
deadlineModel	single-stage / two-stage
budgetEur	Total call or topic budget, if published
typesOfAction, fundingAreas, keywords	e.g. HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions, Artificial intelligence, Digital transition
url, license	Official call page and source attribution

Example record (real output, long fields shortened):

{
  "source": "EU_FUNDING_TENDERS",
  "id": "I3-2023-INV2a",
  "title": "NACHIP - Second Open Call",
  "callTitle": "NACHIP - Second Open Call",
  "callIdentifier": null,
  "callType": "cascade_funding",
  "programme": "Interregional Innovation Investments Instrument (I3)",
  "funder": "North Adriatic Clean Hydrogen Investment Platform",
  "status": "open",
  "submissionPeriod": {
    "from": "2026-09-10",
    "to": "2026-11-09"
  },
  "deadlineModel": "single-stage",
  "budgetEur": null,
  "typesOfAction": [],
  "fundingAreas": [],
  "keywords": [],
  "region": "EU",
  "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/competitive-calls-cs/46039280",
  "license": "Source: European Commission – EU Funding & Tenders Portal (ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders), reused under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU"
}

Input examples

Open and upcoming hydrogen calls:

{ "query": "hydrogen", "maxResults": 100 }

Horizon Europe calls with a deadline in Q4 2026:

{ "programmes": ["Horizon Europe"], "deadlineAfter": "2026-10-01", "deadlineBefore": "2026-12-31" }

Only cascade funding (FSTP), typically for SMEs and start-ups:

{ "callTypes": ["cascade_funding"], "statuses": ["open"] }

Use cases

• Funding consultants and grant writers: a weekly pipeline of relevant calls for your clients. Schedule the Actor and diff the results.
• SMEs, start-ups and universities: find calls by topic before the deadline.
• AI assistants: answer "what can I apply for?" questions with live, verified data.

Reliability

• Every call is validated: ID, title, ISO deadline, plausible budget and official URL.
• Calls whose deadline has passed are marked closed and filtered out, even when the source index still lists them as open.
• Budgets below €1,000 are treated as source errors and set to null.
• If the EU API returns something unexpected, the run fails with UNEXPECTED_CONTENT instead of returning garbage. Temporary API errors are retried automatically.
• You pay only for valid rows in your dataset. The run stops at maxResults or at your maximum cost per run.

Sources and legal notes

• European Commission, EU Funding & Tenders Portal, reused under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU on the reuse of Commission documents. Each row carries the attribution.
• Binding information is always the official call text. This Actor is not affiliated with the European Commission and does not give funding advice.

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