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.