How to use this app

One searchable record of public funding — grants and tenders — from the European Commission and from national publishers in 11 countries, with the deadline, the funder and the source document for each. This page explains what is in it, how to work through it, and the places where it will tell you it does not know.

What is in the corpus

60,670 published calls, 10,991 organisation profiles, 711 programmes and 571,261 award records across 76,198 funded projects. Counted live on this page, so it is what the database holds right now rather than what was true when the sentence was written.

Two kinds of thing, and they are not interchangeable. A grant or subsidy is money awarded against an application — the EU portal, Spain's BDNS, Italy's incentives catalogue, France's business-aid register. A tender is a public contract you bid to perform — Germany, France's BOAMP, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium. Both appear as calls with deadlines, and both are searchable together, but the funder on a tender is the contracting authority buying something, not a body giving a grant. If you only want one kind, filter by publisher on the search page.

Coverage is uneven on purpose rather than by neglect: a country appears here when its publisher makes the data reachable without a credential and without circumventing anything. Several national grant catalogues sit behind bot walls and are therefore absent — a gap in this table is usually a closed door somewhere, not a decision that the country does not matter.

Finding a call

Search calls is the main entry point. Free text matches the title and the summary — not the full source document, so a term that appears only deep in a call's conditions will not find it. These filters combine:

• Status — open, forthcoming, closed, unknown. Read what these mean before relying on them; unknown is a real answer, not a missing one.
• Country.
• Sector — matched two ways at once, because the site has two kinds of label and you cannot tell them apart from a URL: the classification code the publisher itself attached (a CPV number, an ATECO code, a Spanish finalidad), and a curated code from one short cross-language vocabulary. Most curated codes are derived from those publisher codes and are therefore exact; where a publisher supplied none, a small classifier decides from the call's own text. Never a keyword list — that was tried, and it labelled nothing usefully.
• Deadline from / to — on the closing date the source published.
• Amount — a minimum, a maximum, or both. Only calls whose publisher stated a budget can match, so an amount filter excludes every call with no stated figure. That is most tenders.
• Sort — deadline, newest, amount, relevance. Calls with nothing in the sorted field go last rather than first, so an empty budget never leads an amount-sorted page.

Two browsable routes exist for when you do not have a search term yet. By country lists what each publisher has, and each country page breaks down by sector. A call page also links sideways: to other calls under the same programme, and to similar opportunities found by comparing the text of the calls themselves.

Reading a call page

A call page states what its source said and marks anything it worked out itself. Three things are worth knowing:

The status is about today, and it says where it came from. open and closed are usually derived from the application window — so a call whose stated deadline has passed reads closed here even if its source still lists it as open. When a publisher states a status in its own words, the page says so instead. When there is nothing to go on, the status is unknown and not a guess: Spain's own subsidy register answers the question "is this call still open?" with "there is no direct way to know", because Spanish application periods often depend on a later gazette publication.

A deadline shows a time of day only when one was published. Where a source gave a date and no hour, the page shows the date alone rather than implying midnight — a midnight nobody published would sort, filter and remind as though somebody had. Where a source gave an hour, it is shown in the publisher's own time zone, because that is what the call document says and what you are checking against.

An absent figure is absent, not zero. Most tender publishers do not put a contract value in the notice at all; the estimate is in the tender documents. No budget is invented to fill the column.

Every page names the publisher it came from and links the original notice. Where a source's licence requires specific wording — Spain's aviso legal, for instance — that wording appears on the page, and records the licence obliges us to withhold are absent from this site entirely, with no setting to reveal them.

Some calls also carry what applying involves: the documents and steps drawn from the call's own terms. That block is public where it exists — you do not need an account to read it.

Following deadlines

• Deadlines — everything closing soon, and an iCalendar subscription so the dates appear in your own calendar and keep updating. A subscription is better than an export here, because deadlines get corrected.
• Bookmarks — the save control on any call page.
• Saved searches and alerts — a search you keep, and an overnight match against new calls. Configured on your Saved page.
• A weekly email — the week's matches for your alert preferences. The message body carries the whole digest, and the same report is attached as a PDF when one can be built, so a missing attachment never costs you the content. Every message carries an unsubscribe link that works without signing in: the link itself is the authorisation, so one click is enough.

These need an account, because they are per-person. Signing in uses the same quiescence.eu account as the rest of the site — sign in and you come straight back to this page. Searching, reading every call page, the country and sector pages, the trends and insight pages and the API all work without one.

Working on an application

Dashboard is the working view: the applications you have started, what is closing next, and what your team has changed. Around it:

• An application checklist per call, tracked as you go.
• A document vault — the files that get attached to application after application, kept once. Downloads are served by document id and never by path, so a link cannot be edited into somebody else's file.
• Sharing — invite a colleague to a workspace, comment on an application, and mention somebody to notify them. Mentions are batched into a digest rather than sent one email at a time.

Trends and insights

Two pages answer questions the individual records cannot. Trends shows which research fields are growing and which subjects are emerging, using the Commission's own scientific classification of the projects it funded — no keyword matching and no model's opinion. It covers about a fifth of the corpus and says so above the numbers, and it stops short of the present: the page carries a section explaining exactly which years are withheld and why, rather than leaving a gap you have to interpret.

Insights is a small set of questions the record can answer that a search box cannot — which organisations bridge the most countries, which have survived three programme generations. Each carries the caveat that belongs to it.

Using it from your own code

There is a JSON API over the same corpus, with an OpenAPI document generated from the constants the endpoints validate against. The API documentation has the detail; the shape of it is:

Anonymous access is deliberate and permanent — an API that only answers to a credential is a corpus only its customers can see. Keys are issued on your account page, shown once, and sent as the X-API-Key header rather than in the URL.

What this app will not tell you

This is the part worth reading twice, because each item looks like a missing feature and is a refusal.

• It will not invent a deadline, a time, a budget or a status. Blank means the publisher did not say. unknown means the same thing, said out loud.
• It does not translate. A Dutch notice is in Dutch and an Italian scheme is in Italian, because a machine translation of a legal condition is a new document with somebody else's name on it. Where a publisher issues a notice in two languages, both are searchable.
• It is not the application system. Every call links to its source, and that is where you apply. Nothing here submits anything on your behalf.
• It is not complete, and it does not pretend to be. A call published only in a regional bulletin nobody exports is not here. Treat a negative result as "not in this corpus", never as "does not exist".
• It is not affiliated with any of the publishers listed above, and is not sponsored or endorsed by them.

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