CORDIS EU Research Grants Scraper

This Actor reads EU-funded research projects from CORDIS, the European Commission's record of what Horizon Europe and Horizon 2020 have funded. It returns one record per project with its EU contribution, coordinator and every participating organisation, filtered at the source by programme, status, start date and keyword.

What it does

• Returns one record per project: 59,343 when this was verified (Horizon 2020 35,389, Horizon Europe 23,954).
• Filters at the source. Programme, status, start-date range and keyword are passed to CORDIS, so a narrow query costs less.
• Reads each project's detail record: objective, total cost, maximum EU contribution, funding scheme, topic, call, fields of science, the coordinator and every participant with its own EU contribution, country, activity type and SME flag.
• Walks the whole result set. CORDIS serves 10 projects a page and stops paging past 10,000 results, so a large query is cut into start-date windows and each is read in full.
• Needs no API key. CORDIS is open data.

Use cases

You need to	How this Actor does it
Map who wins EU research money in a field	Set a keyword and group participants by country or organisation
Track an institution's EU grants	Run a keyword or programme query and filter participants by name
Find partners for a proposal	Pull projects on your topic and read their participant lists
Watch new Horizon Europe grants	Filter on programme HORIZON, status SIGNED and a recent start date, and schedule the run
Feed a research agent	Call the Actor over MCP and let the model set the filters

Quick start

1. Click Try for free.
2. Put a Keyword in, or pick a programme, status or start-date range — or leave everything empty for all projects.
3. Set Max items, which is what caps the cost of the run.
4. Click Start, then export as JSON, CSV, Excel or XML, or read the dataset over the API.

Input

Field	Type	Default	What it controls
keyword	string	empty	Full-text search run by CORDIS
programme	string	empty	HORIZON (Horizon Europe) or H2020 (Horizon 2020)
status	string	empty	SIGNED, CLOSED or TERMINATED
startDateFrom / startDateTo	date	empty	Inclusive range on the project start date
fetchDetails	boolean	true	Reads the detail record (costs, coordinator, participants); off gives the search fields only, faster
maxItems	integer	500	Caps how many projects are returned, and so what the run costs; 0 for everything matched

{
    "keyword": "hydrogen",
    "programme": "HORIZON",
    "maxItems": 100
}

Output

One dataset item per project, newest start date first.

Field group	Fields
Identity	projectId, rcn, acronym, doi, projectUrl
Description	title, teaser, objective, keywords, fieldsOfScience
Programme	framework, programme, programmes, fundingSchemeCode, fundingSchemeTitle, topics, calls, subCalls
Money	totalCost, ecContribution (euro)
Dates	startDate, endDate, ecSignatureDate, terminationDate, lastUpdated
Organisations	coordinatorName, coordinatorCountry, coordinator, participants, partners, participantCount, organizations

{
    "projectId": "101285692",
    "acronym": "QLAIM",
    "title": "Claiming ‘Sexual Minority’: A Transnational Political History, 1921–1981.",
    "status": "SIGNED",
    "programme": "HORIZON",
    "startDate": "2027-12-01",
    "endDate": "2029-11-30",
    "ecContribution": 200400,
    "fundingSchemeTitle": "HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European Fellowships",
    "coordinatorName": "UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN",
    "coordinatorCountry": "BE",
    "projectUrl": "https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101285692"
}

Coverage and limits

• CORDIS's search index covers Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe only. FP7 and earlier programmes are not in it.
• totalCost is published as 0 on some projects (fellowships in particular); it is returned as CORDIS publishes it.
• ERC grants publish a host institution and beneficiaries rather than a coordinator and participants; coordinator and participants fall back to those, and organizations keeps every group as published.
• 12 projects carry no start date. An unfiltered run returns them; a run with a start-date range cannot match them.
• Compared with the OpenAIRE projects Actor in this fleet, which returns project-level funder, funding stream and amounts, this one adds the coordinator and every participant with its own EU contribution, plus topic, call and fields of science.

Pricing

Pay per event: one grant-scraper event per project written to the dataset. The optional schema.org block is charged once per run.