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CORDIS (EU Horizon)
CORDIS — the Community Research and Development Information Service — is the European Commission's public project database, managed by the Publications Office of the European Union. It holds the projects funded under the EU framework programmes, from the first framework programme through to Horizon Europe, with each project's participating organisations, duration, funding, and published reports and results. We use it to establish which EU-funded research is running or has run, and who takes part in it.
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What this source does not give you
This is a project register, not a legal source. For the large majority of legal and administrative questions CORDIS yields nothing: it contains no legislation, no case law, no policy rules and no decisions. Nor does it contain the grant agreement itself — a project record states the EU contribution awarded, not the contractual terms or the final settlement. So do not be surprised when this source returns nothing on a legal question; that is the expected outcome.
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Frequently asked questions
- Does CORDIS contain European legislation?
- No. CORDIS is exclusively about research and innovation projects funded by the EU. Regulations, directives, decisions and Court of Justice case law are not in it; those live in the Union's official legislation database. Anyone searching CORDIS for a legal basis is searching the wrong database.
- Which data do I get per project?
- The title and acronym, the framework programme the project falls under, the objective as stated in the project record, the status, the start and end dates, the total cost and the EU contribution, the programme headings it was funded under, the coordinator with its country, and the participating organisations. For very large consortia the participant list is truncated and this is flagged.
- Which programmes are covered?
- The successive European framework programmes for research and innovation, from the first framework programme through to Horizon Europe — including FP7 and Horizon 2020 along the way. Older projects remain findable; CORDIS is an archive as much as a live register.
- When is CORDIS actually useful?
- On questions where European funding or a research partner is in play: which consortium is working on a technology, which organisation has received EU funding before and for what, which results and publications came out of a project. That is useful for background research on a counterparty, for funding and collaboration questions, and for following a technology file — not for establishing a legal norm.
- Is a CORDIS record a funding decision?
- No. It is a public project record published by the Publications Office on behalf of the Commission. The award itself, the grant agreement and the subsequent accounting are separate documents that are not available through this source. Amounts shown are the recorded contribution awarded, not necessarily the amount finally paid out.