EU Funding & Tenders Scraper: Horizon Europe Grants and Calls

Returns open and forthcoming EU grant calls from the European Commission's Funding & Tenders Portal, one row per call with programme, all deadlines, budget in EUR, status, a short description and a link to the call. It covers Horizon Europe, LIFE, Digital Europe, CERV, the European Defence Fund, Creative Europe, CEF and the other EU programmes on the portal, plus cascade funding calls (open calls by EU funded projects) and, on request, tenders of the EU institutions.

Use it to watch new EU funding in your field every morning, to build a pipeline of calls for clients, or to feed a CRM, spreadsheet or newsletter with structured data instead of reading the portal by hand.

What is covered

Everything the portal lists as a call for proposals (grant topics and calls outside the topic system), a cascade funding call or a call for tenders.

• Default: open and forthcoming grants and cascade funding calls with a deadline today or later, earliest deadline first. An empty input gives the 50 calls that close soonest, most of them Horizon Europe topics.
• Filters: keywords, programme, type, status and a deadline range.
• The portal keeps many calls marked open or forthcoming after their last deadline (on 4 October 2026 about half of them). The actor asks only for calls with a deadline today or later unless you include closed, and a row's status is closed when every deadline has passed.
• One search request per 100 calls. A run of 50 rows takes about 5 seconds.

Example from a real run

This is the input and one row of a run on the Apify platform on 4 October 2026 (run 86uLAqDlESfI6f2Dy, 8 rows in total). The descriptionSnippet is shown as the actor returns it.

Input:

{
  "keywords": ["hydrogen", "artificial intelligence"],
  "programmes": ["HORIZON", "LIFE"],
  "maxResults": 20
}

Output (excerpt):

[
  {
    "callId": "HORIZON-MISS-2027-04",
    "topicId": "HORIZON-MISS-2027-04-CIT-02",
    "projectAcronym": null,
    "title": "Hydrogen cities",
    "callTitle": "Supporting the implementation of the Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities Mission",
    "programme": "HORIZON",
    "programmeName": "Horizon Europe",
    "type": "grant",
    "status": "forthcoming",
    "publicationDate": "2025-12-12",
    "openingDate": "2027-02-09",
    "deadline": ["2027-10-07"],
    "nextDeadline": "2027-10-07",
    "deadlineModel": "single-stage",
    "budgetEur": 5000000,
    "fundingRate": null,
    "typesOfAction": ["HORIZON Coordination and Support Actions"],
    "descriptionSnippet": "Expected Outcome: A growing number of cities across Europe is developing hydrogen strategies, either for mobility applications or for decarbonising their local and peri-urban industries and hard-to-abate sectors. By acting as experimentation and innovation hubs, these cities can be testbeds for the energy transition, balancing decarbonisation with competitiveness and social cohesion. Project results are expected to contribute to the following expected outcomes: Investments in - and...",
    "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/HORIZON-MISS-2027-04-CIT-02",
    "source": "EU Funding & Tenders Portal, European Commission",
    "license": "© European Union. Reuse authorised under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU and CC BY 4.0, with the source acknowledged. Not endorsed by the European Commission.",
    "retrievedAt": "2026-10-04T06:31:15.360Z"
  }
]

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
keywords	list of text	all	Words or phrases searched in the call text. Calls matching any of them are returned; a phrase with spaces is searched as a phrase. Example: ["hydrogen", "artificial intelligence"].
programmes	list of text	all	Programme abbreviations as the portal shows them, for example HORIZON, LIFE, DIGITAL, EDF, CERV, CEF, ERASMUS, CREA, SMP, EU4H, EURATOM, INNOVFUND, EMFAF. The input form lists all of them.
types	list	grants, cascadeFunding	grants (calls for proposals), tenders (procurement by EU institutions and agencies) and cascadeFunding (open calls by EU funded projects, also called financial support to third parties).
status	list	open, forthcoming	open, forthcoming and closed.
deadlineFrom	date	today	Only calls with a deadline on or after this date, YYYY-MM-DD.
deadlineTo	date	none	Only calls with a deadline on or before this date, YYYY-MM-DD.
maxResults	number	50	Maximum number of rows, 1 to 2 000.
onlyNew	true or false	false	Only calls that earlier runs with the same input did not deliver. See "Monitoring and scheduling".

Output

One row per call. The dataset view "Calls" shows the most used fields as a table.

Field	Description
callId	Call identifier, for example HORIZON-MISS-2027-04. For tenders the procedure reference, for cascade funding calls the portal's numeric id of the call.
topicId	Topic identifier as the portal shows it, for example HORIZON-MISS-2027-04-CIT-02. For cascade funding calls the EU topic that funds the project.
projectAcronym	For cascade funding calls the acronym of the EU funded project that runs the call, otherwise null.
title	Title of the topic, call or tender.
callTitle	Title of the call the topic belongs to. For cascade funding calls the title of the funding topic.
programme	Programme abbreviation, for example HORIZON. null for tenders.
programmeName	Programme name, for example Horizon Europe.
type	grant, tender or cascadeFunding.
status	open, forthcoming or closed.
publicationDate	Date the call was first listed on the portal (for tenders the publication date of the notice), YYYY-MM-DD.
openingDate	Date the call opens for submission.
deadline	All deadlines as a list of dates, oldest first. Multi cut-off and two-stage calls have several.
nextDeadline	The first deadline today or later, or null when all have passed.
deadlineModel	single-stage, two-stage or multiple cut-off.
budgetEur	Budget in EUR. For grant topics the sum of the topic's budget lines over the years; for tenders the estimated contract value. null when the portal gives none or gives another currency.
fundingRate	Funding rate in percent when the call text states one, otherwise null.
typesOfAction	Types of action, for example HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions.
descriptionSnippet	The start of the description as plain text, at most 500 characters, without e-mail addresses and phone numbers.
url	Link to the call on the Funding & Tenders Portal (or on PROSPECT for some external action calls).
source	EU Funding & Tenders Portal, European Commission.
license	Reuse notice for the data.
retrievedAt	Time of the run, UTC.

Monitoring and scheduling

Set onlyNew to true to use the actor as a daily funding alert. The actor then remembers which calls it has delivered for the same input, in a named key-value store in your Apify account (nightwave-state-eu-funding-tenders-calls, one record per input). Each run returns and charges only calls that earlier runs did not deliver. A forthcoming call is delivered again when it opens for submission, so you see when it opens. The first run returns everything in the selection. A run without news finishes successfully with 0 rows.

onlyNew and maxResults are not part of the remembered input, so you can change them without starting over. Changing any other field starts a fresh state. To start over with the same input, delete the record in the key-value store.

Example: every morning at 07:00 Swedish time, new Horizon Europe and LIFE calls about hydrogen or batteries. In Apify Console, open Schedules, create a schedule with the cron expression 0 7 * * * and add this actor with the input below.

{
  "keywords": ["hydrogen", "battery"],
  "programmes": ["HORIZON", "LIFE"],
  "onlyNew": true,
  "maxResults": 200
}

The same schedule through the Apify API:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/schedules?token=<YOUR_TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"name": "daily-eu-funding", "cronExpression": "0 7 * * *", "timezone": "Europe/Stockholm", "isEnabled": true, "isExclusive": true,
       "actions": [{"type": "RUN_ACTOR", "actorId": "nightwave-owner~eu-funding-tenders-calls",
                    "runInput": {"contentType": "application/json; charset=utf-8", "body": "<the input above as a JSON string>"}}]}'

Connect a webhook or an integration (Slack, e-mail, Google Sheets, HubSpot) to the actor in Apify Console if you want the new rows sent somewhere when the run finishes.

Use cases

• Consultants and grant writers: a morning list of new calls per client, by programme and deadline.
• Universities and research offices: Horizon Europe and Euratom topics with budget and deadlines in a spreadsheet or CRM.
• Companies and SMEs: Digital Europe, LIFE and Single Market Programme calls, and cascade funding calls (smaller grants paid out by EU funded projects).
• Cities, NGOs and cultural organisations: CERV, Creative Europe, Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps calls.
• Suppliers to the EU institutions: tenders with deadline and estimated value ("types": ["tenders"]).

Limits

• No contact persons. The actor does not return contact names, e-mail addresses or phone numbers, and it removes e-mail addresses and phone numbers from the description text. Open url to see who to contact.
• The funding rate is often missing. Most calls state it in the call document or the programme's general conditions, not in the topic text. fundingRate is null then.
• Budgets are what the portal gives. A budget line shared by several topics is shown under each of them, so adding up budgetEur across topics can count the same money twice. Cascade funding budgets are as the funded project entered them. Several cascade calls funded by the same topic share topicId and url; tell them apart by callId and projectAcronym.
• About 5 external action calls had no deadline on 4 October 2026 and are left out of the default search. Add closed to status and a deadline range to see everything.
• Keyword search is the portal's own, with its own matching rules. Results are sorted by the earliest deadline in each call's list, so a multi cut-off call with an old first cut-off can come early.
• Text changes. Titles and snippets are converted from HTML to plain text, extra spaces are removed and long dashes between words become a colon or comma. The content is not changed otherwise.
• Polite use. At most 2 requests per second, a declared User-Agent (Nightwave AB kontakt@nightwave.se), and three attempts with back-off on network errors, rate limits (429) and server errors. A response in an unexpected format stops the run with a clear message.
• The data describes calls announced by the EU. Always read the full call on the portal before you apply; the official documents decide.

Pricing

Pay per result: 0.02 USD per call returned (event call), which is 20 USD per 1 000 calls. Platform usage is included, so you pay only per result. maxResults caps how many rows a run returns, so you always know the highest possible cost.

Rows are delivered only after they have been charged. If you set a maximum cost per run (maxTotalChargeUsd), the run stops there and its status message says how many rows were delivered.

Source and license

The data comes from the European Commission's Funding & Tenders Portal through its public search API, POST https://api.tech.ec.europa.eu/search-api/prod/rest/search?apiKey=SEDIA, the same API the portal's own search page uses. The key SEDIA is public; no registration is needed. The portal describes the API on its APIs page (ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/support/apis).

The Commission's legal notice (commission.europa.eu/legal-notice_en), read on 4 October 2026:

• "The Commission's reuse policy is implemented by the Commission Decision of 12 December 2011 on the reuse of Commission documents. Unless otherwise indicated (e.g. in individual copyright notices), content owned by the EU on this website is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. This means that reuse is allowed, provided appropriate credit is given and changes are indicated."

Commission Decision 2011/833/EU on the reuse of Commission documents (eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dec/2011/833/oj):

• Article 4: "All documents shall be available for reuse: (a) for commercial or non-commercial purposes under the conditions laid down in Article 6; (b) without charge, subject to the provisions laid down in Article 9; and (c) without the need to make an individual application, unless otherwise provided in Article 7."
• Article 6(2): the conditions may include "(a) the obligation for the reuser to acknowledge the source of the documents; (b) the obligation not to distort the original meaning or message of the documents; (c) the non-liability of the Commission for any consequence stemming from the reuse."

Every row names the source in source and carries the reuse notice in license. The changes the actor makes are listed under "Limits" (plain text, shortened descriptions, contact details removed). This actor is not made or endorsed by the European Commission.

Contact

Built and maintained by Nightwave AB. Questions, bugs and feature requests: kontakt@nightwave.se

På svenska

Actorn hämtar öppna och kommande EU-utlysningar från Europeiska kommissionens Funding & Tenders Portal, en rad per utlysning: program, alla sista ansökningsdagar, budget i euro, status, en kort beskrivning och länk. Den täcker Horisont Europa, LIFE, Digitala Europa, CERV, Europeiska försvarsfonden, Kreativa Europa, FSE (CEF) och övriga program på portalen, samt kaskadfinansiering (utlysningar från EU-finansierade projekt) och, om du vill, upphandlingar från EU:s institutioner.

• Källa: portalens öppna sök-API (samma som portalens egen sökning, med den publika nyckeln SEDIA).
• Standard är öppna och kommande bidragsutlysningar och kaskadfinansiering med sista dag i dag eller senare, den som stänger först överst. Portalen låter många utlysningar stå som öppna efter sista dagen; actorn sorterar bort dem.
• Filter: sökord, program (till exempel HORIZON, LIFE, DIGITAL), typ, status och datumintervall för sista ansökningsdag.
• Inga personuppgifter: kontaktpersoner, e-postadresser och telefonnummer tas aldrig med.
• Villkor: Kommissionens rättsliga meddelande och beslut 2011/833/EU tillåter vidareutnyttjande, även kommersiellt, under CC BY 4.0 med angiven källa och angivna ändringar (läst 4 oktober 2026). Källan och villkoret står i fälten source och license på varje rad.
• Med onlyNew: true levereras bara utlysningar som tidigare körningar med samma input inte har levererat, vilket passar för daglig bevakning för konsulter, universitet och företag (se "Monitoring and scheduling").
• Pris: 0,02 USD per utlysning (20 USD per 1 000). Plattformsanvändningen ingår.
• Kontakt: kontakt@nightwave.se