EU Funding & Tenders Scraper — Horizon Europe Grants, Calls & CORDIS Projects

An EU funding scraper in two modes: open calls from the EU Funding & Tenders portal, and awarded projects from CORDIS. Pick a programme, run the scraper, get the data. No account required.

What It Does

Open calls mode returns topic-level records from the Funding & Tenders portal: call identifiers, opening dates, deadlines, status, action type, budget, and a direct portal URL. One record per call. A topic that opens again with new dates appears once per opening.

Awarded projects mode returns granted project records from CORDIS: the coordinator institution, consortium participants, EU contribution, start and end dates, and objectives.

Pick the mode first. It decides which filters apply and which fields come back filled. The two outputs are different shapes, covered below.

Programmes Covered

• Horizon Europe (2021–2027, EUR 95B)
• Horizon 2020 (2014–2020)
• Digital Europe
• Erasmus+
• EU4Health
• CEF Connecting Europe
• Innovation Fund

Input

Field	Type	Description
mode	Select	open_calls (Funding & Tenders) or awarded_projects (CORDIS). Default: open_calls
programme	Select	One of the seven programmes above, or empty for all seven. Default: Horizon Europe
query	String	Keyword search. Open calls: matched against the call text. Awarded projects: matched against project titles
callStatus	Select	forthcoming, open, or closed; empty for all. Open calls mode only
topicCode	String	Exact topic code (e.g. HORIZON-JU-EUROHPC-2026-NAPT-11-01). Open calls mode only
country	String	Two-letter ISO country code (e.g. DE, FR, IT). Keeps projects with at least one participating organisation there. Awarded projects mode only
yearFrom	Integer	Earliest year. Open calls: calls opening in or after that year. Awarded projects: projects starting in or after it. 0 = no filter
maxItems	Integer	Max records to return. Default 10. A value of 0 means the per-run ceiling (see Notes)

How the filters behave

• programme accepts exactly: Horizon Europe, Horizon 2020, Digital Europe, Erasmus+, EU4Health, CEF Connecting Europe, Innovation Fund. Leave it empty for all seven. It applies in both modes.
• callStatus accepts exactly: forthcoming, open, closed. Leave it empty for every status. It applies to open calls only.
• topicCode is an exact match on the topic identifier, so a valid code returns that topic. It applies to open calls only.
• yearFrom in open calls mode compares against the call's opening date. In awarded projects mode it compares against the project start date.
• country matches any participating organisation, coordinator or partner, so a project coordinated from Italy with a German partner is returned for DE. Upper or lower case both work. To keep only coordinators, filter on coordinator_country in the results. In open calls mode country has no effect.
• A value that is not on the list stops the run. An unrecognised programme or callStatus, or a country that is not a two-letter code, returns an error that names what is accepted. It never quietly returns unfiltered data, so you are never billed for records you did not ask for.
• A filter combination that matches nothing ends the run with a short "no results" message naming the filters you set. Loosen one and run again.
• A source that keeps failing stops the run. After a few retries the run ends with a clear error instead of finishing as an empty success. Records collected before the failure are kept.

Output Schema

Each record has the fields for its mode. Fields the source does not publish for a given record come back empty (null). Shares below are measured on full pulls: 6,486 open calls across all seven programmes, and 9,950 Horizon Europe projects.

Open Calls Fields

Field	Description
call_id	Call identifier (e.g. HORIZON-CL5-2026-10-D6-03)
call_title	Call title
call_type	Action type (RIA, IA, CSA, EIC Accelerator, MSCA, etc.)
programme	Programme name, e.g. Horizon Europe or Digital Europe
topic_code	Topic identifier code
destination	Thematic destination the topic belongs to. Filled on about 27% of calls, mostly Horizon Europe
budget_total_eur	Total budget of this topic in EUR. Filled on about 94% of calls
budget_per_project_eur	Per-project budget in EUR, when the call sets one fixed amount. Filled on about 35% of calls
num_projects_expected	Expected number of funded projects. Filled on about 40% of calls
deadline_date	Submission deadline (YYYY-MM-DD)
opening_date	Call opening date (YYYY-MM-DD)
status	Call status: Forthcoming, Open or Closed
keywords	Keywords, pipe-separated
description	Call summary and objectives
call_url	Direct Funding & Tenders portal URL

Awarded Projects Fields

Field	Description
project_id	Grant agreement number
project_acronym	Project acronym
project_title	Full project title
project_objective	Objective text (first 2000 characters)
project_start_date	Start date (YYYY-MM-DD)
project_end_date	End date (YYYY-MM-DD)
project_total_cost_eur	Total project cost in EUR. Empty where the grant is a fixed EU amount with no recorded cost (about 70%)
project_ec_contribution_eur	EU contribution in EUR
project_funding_scheme	Project status as recorded in CORDIS
coordinator_name	Coordinating institution legal name
coordinator_country	Coordinator country (ISO-2 code)
participant_names	Consortium participant names, pipe-separated. Empty for single-organisation projects (about 53%)
participant_countries	Participant countries, pipe-separated. Does not include the coordinator
num_participants	Number of consortium participants besides the coordinator
topics	Related topic codes, pipe-separated
cordis_url	CORDIS project page URL

How the two modes differ

Aspect	Open calls	Awarded projects
What a row is	One funding topic: an opportunity you can apply to	One granted project: who won and how much
Identified by	call_id / topic_code	project_id
Dates	opening_date, deadline_date	project_start_date, project_end_date
Money	Topic budget, where published	EU contribution, and total cost where recorded
Programme	programme field holds the programme name	No programme field; filter with programme on input
Filters	programme, callStatus, topicCode, query, yearFrom	programme, query, country, yearFrom
Link	call_url (portal topic page)	cordis_url (CORDIS project page)

Example: open calls record

Input: { "mode": "open_calls", "programme": "Horizon Europe", "callStatus": "open", "maxItems": 6 }. Fifth record returned, exactly as produced:

{
    "call_id": "HORIZON-CL5-2026-10-D6-03",
    "call_title": "Generative AI for smarter CCAM: enhancing perception, decision-making, and validation (CCAM Partnership)",
    "call_type": "HORIZON-RIA HORIZON  Research and Innovation Actions",
    "programme": "Horizon Europe",
    "topic_code": "HORIZON-CL5-2026-10-D6-03",
    "destination": "Developing multimodal systems and services for climate-neutral, smart, inclusive, and safe mobility (2026-27)",
    "budget_total_eur": 13000000,
    "budget_per_project_eur": 6500000,
    "num_projects_expected": 2,
    "deadline_date": "2026-10-08",
    "opening_date": "2026-06-04",
    "status": "Open",
    "keywords": "HORIZON-CL5-2026-10-D6-03 | HORIZON-CL5-2026-10",
    "description": "Generative AI for smarter CCAM: enhancing perception, decision-making, and validation (CCAM Partnership)",
    "call_url": "https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/HORIZON-CL5-2026-10-D6-03"
}

Example: awarded projects record

Input: { "mode": "awarded_projects", "programme": "Horizon Europe", "country": "DE", "maxItems": 6 }. First record returned: coordinated from Italy, with a German partner. Only project_objective is shortened here (marked with …).

{
    "project_id": "101232404",
    "project_acronym": "FEASTS",
    "project_title": "Spectacles of Consumption: Arts, Ecologies, and Politics of Feasting at Early Modern Muslim Courts",
    "project_objective": "At the early modern courts of the Ottomans, Safavids and Mughals, feasts were complex multisensory events into which enormous natural, material, and human resources were poured. …",
    "project_start_date": "2027-10-01",
    "project_end_date": "2032-09-30",
    "project_total_cost_eur": 1999500,
    "project_ec_contribution_eur": 1999500,
    "project_funding_scheme": "SIGNED",
    "coordinator_name": "UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA",
    "coordinator_country": "IT",
    "participant_names": "MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV",
    "participant_countries": "DE",
    "num_participants": 1,
    "topics": "ERC-2025-COG",
    "cordis_url": "https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/292196"
}

Use Cases

Grant prospecting. Filter open calls by programme and status to build a live pipeline of fundable opportunities. Export to Excel, sort by deadline, attach to your CRM.

Beneficiary mapping. Pull awarded projects for a programme and country to see which institutions are winning EU funding in your sector, then group by coordinator_name. Useful for consortium scouting and competitive intelligence.

Portfolio analysis. Download CORDIS history for a programme (Horizon 2020, Horizon Europe) and analyze funding patterns by country, institution, or topic area.

Market research. EU grant consultancies charge significant fees for this data. The scraper pulls the same official source they use, structured and ready for analysis.

Data Sources

• EU Funding & Tenders portal: the European Commission's public listing of calls and topics
• CORDIS: the Commission's public research project database

Both are official EU Commission sources. No account or API key required.

Notes

• Per-run ceiling: 10,000 records for open calls, 9,950 for awarded projects. For a larger pull, split it by programme, country or yearFrom.
• Large awarded-projects pulls take a while. Use a small maxItems to sample first.