How to use this app

One searchable record of public funding — grants and tenders — from the European Commission and from national publishers in 16 countries, with the deadline, the funder and the source document for each. This page explains what the app contains, how to use it, and where it will tell you that it does not know something.

What the app contains

237,408 published calls, 81,282 organisation profiles, 922 programmes and 2,098,477 award records across 875,104 funded projects. These figures are counted as the page loads, so they show what the database holds right now.

Grants and tenders are two different things. A grant or subsidy is money you apply for. Examples come from the EU portal, Spain's BDNS, Italy's incentives catalogue, France's business-aid register and Greece's ESPA. A tender is a public contract you bid to carry out. Examples come from Germany, France's BOAMP, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium and Greece's Διαύγεια. Both appear here as calls with a deadline, and you can search both together. On a tender, though, the body named is buying something rather than giving a grant. To see only one kind, filter by publisher on the search page.

Some countries are covered better than others. A country appears here when its publisher makes the data freely available, without a login and without our having to work around any barrier. Several national grant catalogues block automated access, so they are missing. A gap in this table usually means a closed door, not a decision that the country matters less.

Finding a call

Search calls is the main entry point. A search on words matches the title and the summary only. It does not search the full source document, so a word that appears only deep inside a call's conditions will not find it. You can combine these filters:

• Status — open, forthcoming, closed, unknown. Read what these mean before you rely 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 the URL does not show which is which. The first is the code the publisher attached itself, such as a CPV number, an Italian ATECO code or a Spanish finalidad. The second is our own short list of sector names, which works across languages. Most of our labels are taken straight from the publisher's code, so they are exact. Where a publisher gave no code, software assigns a label from the text of the call itself.
• Deadline from / to — on the closing date the source published.
• Amount — a minimum, a maximum, or both. Only calls whose publisher gave a budget can match. An amount filter therefore leaves out every call with no stated figure, which is most tenders.
• Sort — open, deadline, newest, amount, relevance. Calls with nothing in the column you sort by go last, so a call with no budget never appears at the top of an amount-sorted page. Searches begin with open calls first: those still open or opening soon, then those whose publisher gives no status, then closed ones. Most of what is published here has already closed, so it is a poor place to start. Choose deadline to see the whole list in date order, closed calls included.

There are two ways to browse if you do not yet have anything to search for. 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 shows what its source said, and marks anything we worked out ourselves. 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 but no time, the page shows the date on its own. We do not fill in midnight, because a midnight nobody published would then be used for sorting, filtering and reminders as though it were real. Where a source did give a time, we show it in the publisher's own time zone, because that is what the call document says.

A missing figure means missing, not zero. Most tender publishers do not put a contract value in the notice; it is in the tender documents instead. We never invent a budget to fill the gap.

Every page names the publisher it came from and links to the original notice. Where a publisher's licence requires particular wording, such as Spain's aviso legal, that wording appears on the page. Records a licence requires us to withhold are not on this site at all, and there is no setting that reveals them.

Some calls also carry what applying involves: the documents and steps taken from the call's own terms. Where it exists, anyone can read it. You do not need an account.

Following deadlines

• Deadlines — everything closing soon, and a calendar subscription that puts the dates in your own calendar and keeps them up to date. A subscription is better than a one-off export, because deadlines are sometimes 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 personal to you. 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, stored once. Each download is served by its own identifier rather than by a file path, so nobody can edit a link to reach someone else's file.
• Sharing — invite a colleague to a workspace, comment on an application, and mention a colleague to notify them. Mentions are gathered into one summary email rather than sent one at a time.

Trends and insights

Two pages answer questions that no single record can. Trends shows which areas of research are growing and which subjects are growing fastest. It uses the European Commission's own subject labels for the projects it funded, so nothing is guessed from keywords or by software. It covers about a fifth of the calls we hold, and says so above the figures. It also stops a year or two short of today, and explains on the page which years are left out and why.

Insights is a small set of questions the data can answer but a search box cannot: which organisations have partners in the most countries, for example, or which have kept their funding across three generations of EU programmes. Each answer says what it does not cover.

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

Each of the following may look like something the app is missing. Each one is a deliberate choice.

• It will not invent a deadline, a time, a budget or a status. An empty field means the publisher did not say. unknown means the same thing, stated plainly.
• It does not translate. A Dutch notice is in Dutch and an Italian scheme is in Italian. We do not translate it, because an automatic translation of a legal condition is a new document, and it would carry the publisher's name without the publisher's words. Where a publisher issues a notice in two languages, you can search both.
• 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 that nobody makes available is not here. If you find nothing, it means we do not have it. It does not mean it 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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