🇪🇺 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.

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

📋 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.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: acronym, callIdentifier, callTitle, contentCreationDate, coordinatorCity, coordinatorCountry, coordinatorEcContribution, coordinatorIsSme, coordinatorName, coordinatorVatNumber, duration, ecMaxContribution, ecSignatureDate, endDate, euroSciVoc, framework, grantDoi, id, keywords, lastUpdateDate, objective, participantCountries, participantsCount, rcn, scrapedAt, startDate, status, title, topicTitle, totalCost, url. All 31 field names come from a real production run, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 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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⚠️ 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.

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