UK & EU Grant Awards & Open Calls Intelligence

Search UKRI Gateway to Research awards and EU Funding & Tenders Portal calls, topics, tenders and awarded projects in one dataset. Filter by keyword, sector, country, funder, amount, deadline, status and recipient organisation type. Every record carries the recipient organisation, its native identifier and a link to the public source page. No personal data.

What it does

• Queries two official public APIs: the UKRI Gateway to Research API and the European Commission's Funding & Tenders Portal search API.
• Returns one row per call, tender, award or funded project, with title, funder, programme, description, eligibility text, amount range, currency, opening and closing dates, normalised status, recipient organisation and identifiers.
• Filters by keywords (any-of), excluded keywords, sector/topic labels, countries, funders, amount range, status, deadline window and recipient organisation type.
• Merges, de-duplicates and sorts the results from both sources into a single dataset.
• Charges one pay-per-event unit per record written. Empty or failed runs do not charge per-record events.

Who it is for

• Bid writers and grant consultants tracking open calls and recent awards in their sectors.
• SMEs, startups and charities looking for UK and EU funding they can apply for.
• Sales, partnership and market-intelligence teams mapping who won what, how much and where.
• AI agents that need a structured, filterable grant and award feed.

Data sources and coverage

Source	What it covers	Currency	API
UKRI Gateway to Research	UK research and innovation projects and awards: grant reference, title, status, grant category, lead funder, abstract, research topics, participants, project cost and grant offer	GBP	https://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/
EU Funding & Tenders Portal	Calls for proposals, grant topics and external actions (types 1 and 2), awarded projects (SEDIA_NONH2020_PROD index) and optional procurement tenders (type 0)	EUR	https://api.tech.ec.europa.eu/search-api/prod/rest/search

The EU portal's public search API is used without login. UKRI's Gateway to Research API is public. The Actor sends a normal browser User-Agent and the portal's documented Referer/Origin headers, retries with exponential backoff and never bypasses authentication or robots controls.

Coverage notes

• UKRI records are awards/projects. Their opening and closing dates are the project start and end dates, not application deadlines.
• EU calls and topics may include historical records whose published status is stale. The Actor derives open/closed/forthcoming from the published dates first and falls back to the source status label.
• EU call amounts are the total topic or action budget parsed from the portal's budgetOverview, not a per-grant minimum and maximum. EU project amounts are the published EU contribution.
• Organisation type is inferred from the legal name when the source does not state a type. The inference is documented in the input schema and is deliberately conservative.
• The EU projects index uses EC numeric country codes internally; the Actor converts the documented codes to ISO 2-letter codes for the output.

Output fields

Field	Description
id	Stable record ID (ukri:<GTR id> or eu:<reference>)
source	ukri or eu
recordType	call, tender, award
title	Award, call or project title
funder	Funder or funding body
programme	Programme, scheme or call family
description	Plain-text summary or objective (HTML removed)
whoCanApply	Eligibility text for calls/tenders, or the recipient description for awards/projects
amountMin, amountMax	Amount range in the source currency
currency	GBP or EUR
openingDate, closingDate	Opening and closing dates (project start/end for awards)
status	open, closed, forthcoming, active, unknown
organisation	Recipient organisation for awards/projects, or the funder for calls/tenders: name, type, native identifier, country, role
topics	Source taxonomy topics, tags or subject labels
identifiers	Native IDs: GTR project ID and grant reference; EU reference, topic, call and programme IDs
sourceUrl	Canonical public page
lastUpdated	Source last-updated date when published
fetchedAt	When the record was fetched

Input

All filters are optional. With no input you get up to 100 open EU calls and active UKRI/EU awards. See .actor/input_schema.json for full descriptions.

Input	Type	Default	Notes
sources	array	["ukri","eu"]	Which public sources to search
recordTypes	array	["call","award"]	Add tender for EU procurement notices
keywords	array	[]	Any-of substring match across title, description, programme, topics, organisation and identifiers
excludeKeywords	array	[]	Drop matches
sectors	array	[]	Match only the source taxonomy fields
countries	array	[]	ISO 2-letter codes or names; EU/Europe for EU-wide calls
funders	array	[]	Funder, programme, call or programme ID text
amountMin, amountMax	number	unset	In the source's own currency (GBP for UKRI, EUR for EU)
status	array	["open","active"]	open, closed, forthcoming, active, any
deadlineFrom, deadlineTo	string	unset	YYYY-MM-DD or relative 30 days / 6 months from today
organisationTypes	array	["any"]	Filters award recipients; calls and tenders pass
sortBy	string	newest	newest, closingSoon, amountDesc
maxResults	integer	100	1–5,000; charged per record returned

Sample output

{
  "id": "eu:50143353TOPICSen",
  "source": "eu",
  "recordType": "call",
  "title": "Developing novel recycling technologies for complex plastic materials applying biotech solutions",
  "funder": "European Commission",
  "programme": "Call 01 - single stage (2027)",
  "description": "Expected Outcome: Project results are expected to contribute to ...",
  "whoCanApply": "General conditions 1. Admissibility Conditions: ...",
  "amountMin": 261800000,
  "amountMax": 261800000,
  "currency": "EUR",
  "openingDate": "2027-04-20",
  "closingDate": "2027-09-22",
  "status": "forthcoming",
  "organisation": {
    "name": "European Commission",
    "type": "public-body",
    "identifier": null,
    "country": "EU",
    "role": "funder"
  },
  "topics": ["biotechnology", "HORIZON-CL6-2027-01-CIRCBIO-03", "Circular economy"],
  "identifiers": {
    "euReference": "50143353TOPICSen",
    "topicIdentifier": "HORIZON-CL6-2027-01-CIRCBIO-03",
    "callIdentifier": "HORIZON-CL6-2027-01",
    "programmeId": "43108390"
  },
  "sourceUrl": "https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/HORIZON-CL6-2027-01-CIRCBIO-03",
  "lastUpdated": "2027-04-20",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-11-03T23:32:40.213Z"
}

Pricing

$0.02 per record (grant-record event), i.e. $20 per 1,000 records.

• You are charged only for records written to the dataset. An empty or failed run does not charge per-record events.
• The Actor does not add an actor-start event. Standard Apify platform usage may apply separately.
• Set the run's maximum cost to cap spend. The Actor stops cleanly when the cap is reached and reports how many records it saved.
• Local test runs with the pay-per-event pricing environment variable use the same $0.02 price per event; the local charging log records each event.

Use with AI agents (MCP)

This Actor is designed to be called by AI agents:

• Every input field has a human- and agent-readable description, enums, defaults and constraints in .actor/input_schema.json.
• The output schema exposes the full dataset and a compact overview view.
• Connect it through Apify's MCP server (see the Apify docs for the current MCP endpoint) or call the Actor's API endpoint directly from your agent tool. The input is a single JSON object; the output is a JSON array of grant records.

FAQ

How fresh is the data? Every run queries the live public APIs. There is no cached database. UKRI and EU updates appear on the next run.

Why do I sometimes get only EU records? The default newest sort uses the opening date. EU calls with future opening dates sort ahead of older UKRI awards. Use sortBy: "closingSoon", status: ["active"], or sources: ["ukri"] to surface UKRI awards.

Why do some records have no amount? The source did not publish a budget or contribution. Records without an amount are dropped when amountMin or amountMax is set.

Why does an EU call show a huge amount? EU call amounts are the total topic/action budget from the portal's budgetOverview, not the maximum grant per applicant. Use the call's source page for the per-grant contribution rules.

Can I get only companies? Set organisationTypes: ["company"]. This filters awards and funded projects. Calls and tenders still pass because they have no recipient yet; use keywords or sectors to narrow them.

Are tenders included? Only when recordTypes includes tender. Tenders are EU procurement notices (type 0) and are excluded by default.

Does it collect personal data? No. The Actor returns organisation names and organisation identifiers only. It does not return individual names, emails or phone numbers.

Is this affiliated with UKRI or the European Commission? No. It is an independent data product that queries public APIs. It is not endorsed by UKRI or the European Commission.

Data quality and attribution

• Contains public sector information from UKRI and the European Commission.
• Source data is published by UKRI and the European Commission; check each source page for the applicable licence, attribution and reuse terms.
• The publisher cannot warrant the quality or accuracy of the data. Records can be incomplete, stale or misclassified. Always verify a funding opportunity on its source page before applying.
• The Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by UKRI, Innovate UK or the European Commission.

Development

npm install
npm test
npx -y apify-cli@1.11.0 validate-schema
npm run test:live

npm run test:live runs the Actor locally with test/live-input.json, pay-per-event pricing enabled and the charging log dataset turned on. Output lands in storage/datasets/default/, charges in storage/datasets/charging_log/ and the run summary in storage/key_value_stores/default/RUN_SUMMARY.json.