🇪🇺 CORDIS EU Research Projects Scraper

🚀 Export Horizon Europe and Framework Programme research projects in seconds. Filter by free-text query across the entire CORDIS catalog. No API key, no registration, no manual CSV wrangling.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-12 · 📊 28 fields per record · 🇪🇺 Horizon Europe + FP1-FP9 · 💶 EU-funded research grants · ♻️ Live per run

The CORDIS EU Research Projects Scraper queries the European Commission's official research projects database and returns 28 fields per record, covering project identity, objective, budget, EC contribution, coordinator organisation, participant countries, call identifier, framework programme, EuroSciVoc taxonomy, and key dates. CORDIS (Community Research and Development Information Service) has tracked every EU-funded research project since the first Framework Programme launched in 1984.

The catalog spans the current Horizon Europe programme, the prior Horizon 2020 and FP7 generations, and decades of legacy projects across science, engineering, health, environment, and the social sciences. Each record links coordinator and participant organisations to their country, VAT number, and SME status. This Actor returns the same JSON CORDIS exposes through its public search, with server-side filtering and pagination already handled.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Research office managers, grant strategists, technology transfer offices, science journalists, policy analysts, consulting firms, scientometrics teams	Proposal benchmarking, partner discovery, collaboration network analysis, EU funding landscape research, science of science studies, journalism on public research spend

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📋 What the CORDIS EU Research Projects Scraper does

A flexible query workflow in a single run:

• 🔍 Free-text search. Match any term across project titles, objectives, and keywords, like artificial intelligence, quantum, or vaccine.
• 🧬 Framework taxonomy. Each project tagged with HORIZON, H2020, FP7, or earlier framework codes.
• 🏢 Coordinator details. Legal name, VAT number, country, city, EC contribution, and SME flag.
• 🌍 Participant geography. Country code list across all participating organisations.
• 💶 Budget capture. Total project cost and EC maximum contribution in EUR.

Each record includes the project ID, RCN, acronym, full title, objective text, keyword list, status, framework, total cost, EC contribution, start and end dates, duration in months, grant DOI, coordinator details, participant count and countries, call identifier and title, topic title, EuroSciVoc classifications, and EC signature and update timestamps.

💡 Why it matters: the EU has committed over €95 billion to Horizon Europe alone. CORDIS is the canonical record of who received it, for what, with whom, and on what timeline. Building your own pipeline means parsing CORDIS XML, handling pagination, and normalising legacy data. This Actor returns the catalog as flat JSON on every run.

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🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon: a 3-minute walkthrough showing how to go from sign-up to a downloaded dataset.

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⚙️ Input

Input	Type	Default	Behavior
query	string	"artificial intelligence"	Free-text query. Supports CORDIS syntax like quantum AND framework=h2020. Leave at default or change as needed.
maxItems	integer	10	Records to return. Free plan caps at 10, paid plan at 1,000,000.

Example: 200 AI-related projects, default search.

{
    "maxItems": 200,
    "query": "artificial intelligence"
}

Example: quantum projects in Horizon 2020 only.

{
    "maxItems": 500,
    "query": "quantum AND framework=h2020"
}

⚠️ Good to Know: CORDIS paginates 50 records at a time. The catalog has hundreds of thousands of projects across all framework programmes, so very broad queries can return long result sets. Combine search terms with the framework= operator for targeted exports.

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📊 Output

Each project record contains 28 fields. Download the dataset as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

🧾 Schema

Field	Type	Example
🆔 id	string	"101071795"
🔗 url	string	"https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101071795"
🏷️ rcn	string	"239576"
🅰️ acronym	string | null	"TIME"
📰 title	string	"Trustworthy and Inclusive MLOps made in Europe"
📝 objective	string | null	"TIME aims at accelerating..."
🏷️ keywords	string | null	"Trustworthy AI, MLOps, Fairness..."
📊 status	string | null	"CLOSED"
🇪🇺 framework	string | null	"HORIZON"
💶 totalCost	number | null	0
💶 ecMaxContribution	number | null	75000
📅 startDate	ISO 8601 | null	"2022-06-01"
📅 endDate	ISO 8601 | null	"2022-11-30"
⏱️ duration	number | null	6
🔗 grantDoi	string | null	"10.3030/101071795"
🏢 coordinatorName	string | null	"CLEARBOX AI SOLUTIONS SRL"
🆔 coordinatorVatNumber	string | null	"IT12161430017"
🌍 coordinatorCountry	string | null	"IT"
🏙️ coordinatorCity	string | null	"TORINO"
💶 coordinatorEcContribution	number | null	75000
🤝 coordinatorIsSme	boolean | null	true
👥 participantsCount	number | null	1
🌐 participantCountries	string[]	["IT", "DE", "FR"]
📞 callIdentifier	string | null	"HORIZON-EIE-2021-CONNECT-01"
📰 callTitle	string | null	"Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)"
🏷️ topicTitle	string | null	"MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021"
🏷️ euroSciVoc	string[]	["artificial intelligence", "machine learning"]
📅 ecSignatureDate	ISO 8601 | null	"2022-05-12"
📅 contentCreationDate	ISO 8601 | null	"2022-05-12"
📅 lastUpdateDate	ISO 8601 | null	"2023-02-08"
🕒 scrapedAt	ISO 8601	"2026-05-12T16:30:00.000Z"

📦 Sample records

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✨ Why choose this Actor

	Capability
🇪🇺	Official CORDIS feed. Pulls directly from the European Commission's public research projects database.
🧬	Multi-framework coverage. Horizon Europe, Horizon 2020, FP7, and earlier framework programmes in one query interface.
💶	Budget transparency. Total cost, EC contribution, and per-coordinator breakdown for every project.
🏢	Coordinator identity. Legal name, VAT, country, and SME flag for downstream organisation matching.
⚡	Fast. 50 projects per page, 10,000 records in under fifteen minutes.
🔁	Always fresh. Every run pulls live CORDIS data so newly signed projects appear within days.
🚫	No authentication. Works with open EU research data. No login or API key needed.

📊 The EU has committed more than €95 billion to Horizon Europe. CORDIS is the public record of how that money is being spent.

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📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Cost	Coverage	Refresh	Filters	Setup
⭐ CORDIS EU Research Projects Scraper (this Actor)	$5 free credit, then pay-per-use	All FP1 to Horizon Europe	Live per run	free-text + framework	⚡ 2 min
Official CORDIS search UI	Free	Same data, manual	Live	UI filters	🐢 Manual export per query
Bulk CSV dumps from EU Open Data	Free	Periodic snapshot	Quarterly	None	🕒 Manual ETL
Paid research-intelligence platforms	$1,000+/month	Multi-funder aggregated	Daily	Many	⏳ Vendor onboarding

Pick this Actor when you want the live CORDIS catalog in clean JSON, with server-side query support and zero ETL.

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🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the CORDIS EU Research Projects Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Type a free-text query, add framework filters if you want, and set maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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💼 Business use cases

🏛️ Research Offices & Grant Strategy Benchmark proposals against funded projects in your field Map active calls and topics relevant to your institution Track success rates by framework programme and topic Find collaboration partners with prior EU funding	🔗 Technology Transfer & Partnerships Identify SME coordinators in your sector and region Source consortium partners by participant country Spot emerging research themes ahead of commercial deals Map technology readiness through project timelines
📊 Policy & Funding Analysts EU research spend by country, theme, and framework Trend analyses across decades of public R&D Compare framework programme priorities over time Quantify funding flows to SMEs and large research orgs	📰 Science Journalism & Comms Investigate large grants and their lead organisations Story leads from newly signed projects Profile coordinator labs and their funding history Cross-reference grants with publication output

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🌟 Beyond business use cases

Data like this powers more than commercial workflows. The same structured records support research, education, civic projects, and personal initiatives.

🎓 Research and academia Empirical datasets for papers, thesis work, and coursework Longitudinal studies tracking changes across snapshots Reproducible research with cited, versioned data pulls Classroom exercises on data analysis and ethical scraping	🎨 Personal and creative Side projects, portfolio demos, and indie app launches Data visualizations, dashboards, and infographics Content research for bloggers, YouTubers, and podcasters Hobbyist collections and personal trackers
🤝 Non-profit and civic Transparency reporting and accountability projects Advocacy campaigns backed by public-interest data Community-run databases for local issues Investigative journalism on public records	🧪 Experimentation Prototype AI and machine-learning pipelines with real data Validate product-market hypotheses before engineering spend Train small domain-specific models on niche corpora Test dashboard concepts with live input

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🔌 Automating CORDIS EU Research Projects Scraper

Control the scraper programmatically for scheduled runs and pipeline integrations:

• 🟢 Node.js. Install the apify-client NPM package.
• 🐍 Python. Use the apify-client PyPI package.
• 📚 See the Apify API documentation for full details.

The Apify Schedules feature lets you trigger this Actor on any cron interval. Hourly, daily, or weekly refreshes keep downstream databases in sync automatically.

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

🧩 How does it work?

Type a free-text query (with optional CORDIS syntax like framework=h2020), click Start, and the Actor calls the official CORDIS search endpoint, flattens each project XML payload into 28 columns, and emits clean JSON. No browser automation, no captchas, no setup.

📏 How accurate is the data?

Records come straight from the European Commission's CORDIS database, the authoritative public record of EU-funded research. Free-text fields like objective follow the original proposal language. Numeric fields like total cost reflect what each consortium reported.

🔁 How often is the dataset refreshed?

CORDIS updates continuously as new projects are signed and existing projects publish results. Every run of this Actor fetches the live feed, so your dataset reflects the catalog at run time.

🧬 Which framework programmes are covered?

All of them. Horizon Europe, Horizon 2020, FP7, FP6, FP5, and earlier programmes are searchable through the same query interface. Use the framework= operator to scope to a specific generation.

⏰ Can I schedule regular runs?

Yes. Use Apify Schedules to run this Actor on any cron interval (hourly, daily, weekly) and keep a downstream database in sync.

⚖️ Is this data legal to use?

CORDIS is published by the European Commission under the Commission Reuse Decision and is intended for public reuse, including for commercial purposes. Attribution is required for derivative works.

💼 Can I use this data commercially?

Yes. CORDIS data is open under the Commission Reuse policy and commercial use is permitted. Research-intelligence and grant-strategy products are commonly built on this feed.

💳 Do I need a paid Apify plan to use this Actor?

No. The free Apify plan is enough for testing and small runs (10 records per run). A paid plan lifts the limit and gives you access to scheduling, higher concurrency, and larger datasets.

🔁 What happens if a run fails or gets interrupted?

Apify automatically retries transient errors. If a run still fails, you can inspect the log in the Runs tab, fix the input, and re-run. Partial datasets from failed runs are preserved so you never lose progress.

📚 Can I get publication or deliverable lists?

Not in this Actor. CORDIS exposes results and deliverables as separate document types. If you need a companion scraper for project outputs, reach out via the contact form below.

🆘 What if I need help?

Our support team is here to help. Contact us through the Apify platform or use the Tally form linked below.

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🔌 Integrate with any app

CORDIS EU Research Projects Scraper connects to any cloud service via Apify integrations:

• Make - Automate multi-step workflows
• Zapier - Connect with 5,000+ apps
• Slack - Get run notifications in your channels
• Airbyte - Pipe research data into your warehouse
• GitHub - Trigger runs from commits and releases
• Google Drive - Export datasets straight to Sheets

You can also use webhooks to trigger downstream actions when a run finishes. Push fresh project data into your CRM, or alert your research office when new grants land in your themes.

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🆘 Need Help? Open our contact form to request a new scraper, propose a custom data project, or report an issue.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by CORDIS, the European Commission, or any EU body. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available open data published under the Commission Reuse policy is collected.