# EU Funding Calls Search (Funding & Tenders Portal)

> EU Funding Calls Search (Funding & Tenders Portal) is a paid API for AI agents from eu-grants-production.up.railway.app, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-21).

Searches open and forthcoming EU grant calls from the European Commission's Funding & Tenders Portal by keyword, returning topic details, deadlines, budgets, and official links.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://eu-grants-production.up.railway.app/v1/grants/search?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-21
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/eu-funding-calls-search-funding-tenders-portal-6905b975
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_Gn1xay04Y61XQ8r6F6lDf

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability eu-funding-calls-search-funding-tenders-portal-6905b975
```

Example prompt: Search the EU Funding & Tenders Portal for open or forthcoming grant calls related to 'artificial intelligence' — show me up to 20 results with deadlines at least 14 days away, including their budgets, deadlines, and official links.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to discover open or forthcoming EU grant opportunities matching specific research or project topics, and want structured data (budgets, deadlines, links) rather than navigating the EC portal manually. It is ideal for AI agents assisting companies, researchers, or consultants in identifying relevant EU funding programmes such as Horizon Europe, Digital Europe, LIFE, CEF, EU4Health, Erasmus+, or Innovation Fund. Prefer this over generic web search when you need clean, machine-readable grant metadata with filtering by status and days to deadline.

## Known failure modes

- No results returned if the keyword is too niche or misspelled
- Expired or legacy topics are filtered out, so very recent closures may not appear
- Rate limiting or payment failure if the x402 micropayment is not processed
- Invalid query parameters (e.g. limit outside 1-50) may return an error or be clamped
- Results may lag behind the live EC portal if the underlying data is not fully up to date

## How this service works

Search open and forthcoming EU grant calls from the European Commission's Funding & Tenders Portal by keyword: topic ID, title, programme, action type, opening date, deadline, days left, budget per grant (min-max EUR), expected grants and official link. Expired legacy topics filtered out. Use when looking for open or upcoming EU grant funding (Horizon Europe, Digital Europe, LIFE, CEF, EU4Health, Erasmus+, Innovation Fund...) that matches a company's or project's topic.

## Output

A JSON object containing a list of matching EU grant calls, each with: topic ID, title, status (open/forthcoming), call ID, programme, type of action, opening date, deadline, days left until deadline, expected number of grants, budget per grant (min/max EUR), and a direct link to the official EC portal page. Also includes total results returned and terms/privacy links.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "query"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "limit": {
       "type": "integer",
       "description": "Max results 1-50 (default 20)"
      },
      "query": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Keywords, e.g. 'hydrogen', 'artificial intelligence', 'circular economy'"
      },
      "status": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "open, forthcoming or both (default both)"
      },
      "min_days_to_deadline": {
       "type": "integer",
       "description": "Only calls whose deadline is at least N days away (default 0)"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "calls": [
   {
    "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/HORIZON-CL4-2027-SPACE-07-83",
    "title": "...",
    "status": "forthcoming",
    "call_id": "HORIZON-CL4-2027-SPACE-07",
    "deadline": "2028-01-20",
    "topic_id": "HORIZON-CL4-2027-SPACE-07-83",
    "days_left": 461,
    "programme": "HORIZON",
    "opening_date": "2027-10-07",
    "type_of_action": "HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions",
    "expected_grants": 2,
    "budget_per_grant_eur": {
     "max": 4000000,
     "min": 3000000
    }
   }
  ],
  "legal": {
   "terms": "https://eu-grants-production.up.railway.app/terms",
   "privacy": "https://eu-grants-production.up.railway.app/privacy"
  },
  "status": "ok",
  "returned": 1,
  "use_when": "Use when looking for open or upcoming EU grant funding (Horizon Europe, Digital Europe, LIFE, CEF, EU4Health, Erasmus+, Innovation Fund...) that matches a company's or project's topic."
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/eu-funding-calls-search-funding-tenders-portal-6905b975/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from eu-grants-production.up.railway.app](https://www.zero.xyz/host/eu-grants-production.up.railway.app/llms.txt)