Data sources and attribution
What we re-serve, on what legal basis — and what we do not.
Our principle
GrantCortex structures and re-serves grant data from public EU/national sources. We re-utilise only sources for which an open licence, a statutory re-use basis, or written permission exists. Where that is not (yet) documented, the source is switched off — even where our ingestion layer is technically ready.
Active sources
| Source | Legal basis / licence | Conditions / attribution |
|---|---|---|
| EU Funding & Tenders Portal (Horizon Europe, Digital Europe, EDF), CORDIS, EU work-programme documents | CC BY 4.0 (© European Union) — Commission Decision 2011/833/EU | Attribution: “© European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0, changes were made.” Embedded third-party / industrial-property material (logos, etc.) is excluded. (Source: the EU’s legal notice; see also the Portal's legal notice.) Data access uses the Commission's documented public API (API documentation). CC BY 4.0 licence |
| Vinnova (Sweden) | CC0 / public domain | Free reuse, no attribution required (courtesy credit appreciated). (Source: Vinnova’s statement.) |
| RVO (Netherlands) | Dutch open government data (Auteurswet Art. 15b) | Free reuse; imagery excluded (we do not ingest images). (Source: RVO’s statement.) |
Deliberately switched-off sources
We built ingestion for the Hungarian state and research portals (NKFIH, palyazat.gov.hu, KAP, MTA, HUN-REN) and the Austrian FFG, but following our internal legal review in June 2026 these sources are switched off in production: neither the tool layer nor the website serves a single call from them today.
They will be re-enabled only with a documented legal basis — a public-sector-information re-use confirmation, or the data holders’ green light on their own terms. This status is externally verifiable on the coverage page. Coverage (live source list)
Excluded sources
The catalogue deliberately does NOT include sources whose terms forbid commercial re-utilisation or that asserted a machine-readable reservation of rights. Specifically excluded: the Tempus Public Foundation (TKA), KAVOSZ Zrt., the International Visegrad Fund (IVF), EUREKA/Eurostars, and EEA Grants / NCTA. We do not re-serve these without written permission.
Pass-through obligation
Where a source requires attribution (e.g. CC BY 4.0), you must preserve that attribution in any onward use of data obtained through GrantCortex.
Fair fetching practices
We fetch sources considerately: a single scheduled daily refresh, low request rates, an identifiable User-Agent, and respect for robots.txt and machine-readable rights reservations.
Rights-holder channel
If you are a data holder or rights-holder with a question or objection about the re-use of your data, write to info@grantcortex.eu — or use the notice-and-takedown procedure. The detailed conditions are in Section 7 of the Terms.