EU Horizon / CORDIS Grant Awards Change Watch

Receive seed-zero, structured records for newly signed and changed EU research grant awards — the funded projects published on the European Commission's official CORDIS database (the Funding & Tenders Portal Projects & results, covering framework programmes such as Horizon Europe and H2020) — with per-page run receipts, not another historical CORDIS dump.

The actor reads the public, logged-out CORDIS project search (most-recently- updated first), parses each awarded project as published, and emits only qualified post-baseline awards and material changes. Each record carries its source-native CORDIS project id, the EU contribution amount, the official call reference and coordinator, and a run receipt.

How it works

1. Queries the public CORDIS /search JSON for contenttype='project', sorted by content-update date (newest awards first), paginated and bounded.
2. Normalizes each awarded project — id, acronym, title, status, total cost, maximum EU contribution, start/end/signature dates, framework programme, call reference and coordinating organisation.
3. Applies your optional framework keep-filter (default HORIZON).
4. In watch mode, compares to a private baseline to emit NEW_AWARD for a newly listed funded project and AWARD_UPDATED when a buyer-visible field changes (status, EU contribution, dates).

The first watch run seeds silently (zero alerts). Later runs emit only new and changed awards.

Output

Three record types, discriminated by record_type:

• eu_grant_award — a normalized awarded project (snapshot mode).
• eu_grant_award_delta — a post-baseline change, with before/after and changed_fields (watch mode).
• source_receipt — a per-page run receipt (terminal_state, canary_passed, request counters). Always emitted, never billed.

Every item carries source_url and observed_at.

Use cases

Research consultants and grant-seeking startups track newly funded projects and competitors; tech-transfer offices monitor awards in their fields and find coordinators/partners; data teams ingest structured EU grant-award records.

Honest limits

A CORDIS award is an official record that a project was funded, not proof of outcome, quality, or that funds were disbursed. Some projects omit an amount (kept null with a parse warning). This actor watches a bounded, most- recently-updated window of the CORDIS awards stream, not a complete enumeration of every historical project — so, like an event feed, it never claims removal from absence. Coordinator and programme are extracted best-effort from the official relations block and are never inferred. No contact enrichment, scoring or recommendations. CORDIS outages/shape drift fail loud (BLOCKED / PARTIAL), never a silent empty success.

Compliance

Public, logged-out CORDIS only. No login, key, CAPTCHA or paywall defeating; no licensed source. The actor self-throttles to 2 requests/second and stops on any source objection.

Pricing

Event	FREE	BRONZE	SILVER	GOLD+
Actor Start (apify-actor-start)	$0.02	$0.02	$0.02	$0.02
Grant-award delta (award_change)	$0.05	$0.045	$0.04	$0.0335
Awards page check (source_check)	$0.10	$0.09	$0.08	$0.067

Prices are the filed pay-per-event amounts per plan tier (PLATINUM/DIAMOND match GOLD). Blocked and refused runs do not intentionally charge value events.

Scheduling

Watch mode is built for recurring runs. Schedule the Actor and keep the same inputs each run so every run reads and updates the one derived baseline store; changing a filter starts a fresh baseline. The first run seeds and emits zero deltas by design; later runs emit only confirmed award_change rows. A settled poll still charges source_check per completed source page.

Preview vs Watch mode

• Preview / snapshot (watchMode = false): returns current CORDIS grant-award records for the filter (billed per award_change). No baseline retained.
• Watch (watchMode = true, default): seeds a private baseline on the first run (zero deltas), then emits only qualified award_change rows against it — at most 500 billed per run, with any overflow delivered free and named in the status message. source_check bills per completed page. source_receipt diagnostics go to the RUN_RECEIPT key-value record and log — never the dataset.