What Cordis Europa does

CORDIS Europa — branded publicly as CORDIS (Community Research and Development Information Service) — is the European Commission's principal public dissemination channel for EU-funded research and innovation results, operated since 1994 as the Commission's first permanent website. It serves researchers, policy makers, innovators, and EU citizens by aggregating and exposing project-level information spanning multiple framework programmes from FP1 through Horizon Europe. The platform is managed by the Publications Office of the European Union (Unit C.4), headquartered in Luxembourg, with reported headcount in the 501-1,000 range.

The product surface comprises a Project Repository, Articles and Publications index, Advanced Search, Interactive Visualisation Tools (Collaboration Network and Project Map), RSS feeds, Data Extraction Tools, Custom Widgets, Thematic Packs, the CORDIScovery podcast series, and the HORIZON Dashboard. The technology stack is conventional web delivery (HTML, WAI-ARIA, CSS, JavaScript, PHP) augmented by a public SPARQL endpoint exposing Linked Open Data. A Semi-Automatic Classification System (SACS) applies NLP and ML to classify approximately 400 newly ingested projects per month into the EuroSciVoc taxonomy of more than 1,000 scientific fields, with human-in-the-loop review layered over model output. Accessibility certification is maintained against WCAG 2.1 and EN 301 549. IT infrastructure is delivered under a contract with NETCOMPANY/NTT DATA, and data processing is handled by a Cognizone/ALTIA/SIV consortium; both contracts run to March 2028.

The business model is non-commercial: all content and data are provided free of charge to the public, in all 24 official EU languages, with funding flowing directly from the EU budget via the Publications Office. There is no pricing model, no customer-acquisition motion, and no revenue capture mechanism. The entity functions as a public good rather than a commercial enterprise, and unit economics are not a meaningful frame for evaluating it.

Name

Cordis Europa

Legal name

CORDIS (Community Research and Development Information Service)

Website

https://cordis.europa.eu

Company type

Public

Founded year

1994

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

501–1,000 employees

Short description

Cordis Europa (CORDIS) is the European Commission's public portal, operated by the Publications Office of the EU since 1994, providing free multilingual access to EU-funded research and innovation project results for researchers, policy makers, innovators, and citizens.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Luxembourg

HQ country

Luxembourg

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Public funding (EU Budget): CORDIS is funded entirely through the European Union budget as a public service. It provides free access to EU research results to all citizens without charge. No commercial revenue generation.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

CORDIS is the European Commission's public information service that disseminates the results of EU-funded research and innovation projects. It operates a web-based platform providing a Project Repository, articles, multimedia content, advanced search, and machine-readable open data (SPARQL endpoint) across all EU framework programmes from FP1 to Horizon Europe. All content is provided free of charge in 24 EU languages as a public service funded by the EU budget.

Product overview

CORDIS (Community Research and Development Information Service) is the European Commission's primary online portal for disseminating EU-funded research and innovation results, managed by the Publications Office of the European Union. The platform operates as a content management and discovery system built around a Project Repository (containing fact sheets, participants, reports, and open-access publication links), an Articles and Publications section (including Thematic Packs, Videos, Podcasts, News, and the CORDIScovery Podcast series), and a suite of Advanced Search tools powered by a SPARQL endpoint for Linked Open Data queries. Registered users access additional services including Data Extraction Tools, Custom Widgets, Email Subscriptions and Alerts, and Saved Searches. The platform covers 11 application domains (Climate Change and Environment, Digital Economy, Energy, Food and Natural Resources, Fundamental Research, Health, Industrial Technologies, Security, Society, Space, and Transport and Mobility). A semi-automatic project classification system (SACS) using NLP and ML classifies projects into the EuroSciVoc scientific taxonomy.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Project Repository Comprehensive public repository of all EU-funded research project information managed by the European Commission, including fact sheets, participants, reports, results, and open-access publication links.
• Articles and Publications Editorial collection of news articles, thematic packs, videos, and podcasts covering EU research outcomes across multiple domains to help users find relevant results in their area of interest.
• Advanced Search Search functionality allowing users to query specific terms and apply filters across all or selected content collections using Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT), with results sortable and downloadable in XML, CSV, or JSON formats.
• SPARQL Endpoint Linked Open Data query interface allowing users to query CORDIS data using SPARQL language for advanced knowledge graph access and programmatic data retrieval.
• Interactive Visualisation Tools Interactive tools including the Collaboration Network and Project Map for exploring organisations, projects, and research cooperation networks visually.
• Data Extraction Tool A tool for registered CORDIS users to extract CORDIS data in various formats directly from search results, managed in the 'My data extractions' section.
• Custom Widgets A step-by-step widget wizard allowing registered users to create, customise, and embed CORDIS data visualisations in their own websites.
• HORIZON Dashboard An interactive tool presenting key facts and figures on Horizon proposals, projects, and participants, with filter options by theme, geography, and organisational profile.
• Bulk Download (data.europa.eu) Complete project datasets from all framework programmes with related reference data available for bulk download in XML, CSV, XLS, and JSON formats from the data.europa.eu portal.
• CORDIScovery Podcast A podcast series presenting key scientific solutions developed by EU-funded researchers to address major societal challenges.
• Thematic Packs Multilingual article collections organised by specific research themes, highlighting breakthroughs enabled by EU funding.
• CORDIS Newsletter A regular email newsletter providing subscribers with the latest updates on EU research and innovation results published on CORDIS.

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

AI capability3 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• NETCOMPANY S.A. and NTT DATA BELGIQUE SRLminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerWeb hosting services provider under contract 10841, Lot 4 (expiry: March 2028), located at 2b rue Nicolas Bové, L-1253 Luxembourg. Provides infrastructure services for the CORDIS website.
• Cognizone BVBA SRL - ALTIA Consultores S.A. - Software Imagination & Vision S.R.L.minorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerDatabase processing services consortium under contract 10841, Lot 3 (expiry: March 2028), located at Rue des Pères Blancs 4, 1040 Etterbeek, Belgium. Provides data processing and management services for CORDIS.
• European Commission DG Research & InnovationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCORDIS is operated on behalf of the European Commission's Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, executive agencies, and joint undertakings. The service disseminates results from EU-funded research programmes under their mandate.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• The Lens: Free, open scholarly research platform combining patent and scholarly literature with funding and citation data. Comparable as a free public research information platform with broad discovery and analytics features.
• arXiv: Long-running open-access archive of scholarly preprints operated by Cornell University. Comparable as a public-good research dissemination platform with open data and global research community reach, though focused on preprints rather than funded project metadata.
• OpenAlex: Open, machine-readable index of the world's scholarly research outputs built by the team behind Microsoft Academic Graph. Comparable as an open research metadata and discovery platform offering programmatic access via API.
• ResearchGate: Commercial social network for researchers with discovery and project information features. Comparable as a research project and results discovery platform, though with a fundamentally different social/commercial model.
• Dimensions: Commercial research analytics platform built on linked open data, providing analytics and discovery on top of research funding and publication data. Comparable as a research project discovery and analytics platform, but with a commercial model and modern analytics UX.

Broad incumbents

• UK Research and Innovation (UKRI): The UK's national research funding agency that publicly disseminates information on publicly funded research projects. Comparable as a publicly funded, government-mandated research information service, though operating as a funding agency rather than a pure dissemination portal.
• NIH RePORTER: The US National Institutes of Health's official research project database and dissemination platform. Functionally analogous as a government-mandated, public-good research project information service operating across decades of funding programmes.

Direct peers

• Europe PMC: European-based free database of life sciences publications and preprints, also funded by EU/European research organisations. Closely comparable as an EU-supported, free public service for accessing research outputs and publications.
• OpenAIRE: EU-funded open science infrastructure that supports the European Commission's open science and FAIR data mandates. Closely comparable as a publicly funded, EU-mandated research information and data discovery platform serving overlapping researcher audiences.

Others

• DataCite: Non-profit organisation providing DOIs for research data and outputs, central to research data infrastructure. Comparable as enabling infrastructure for open research metadata, though focused on persistent identifiers rather than content discovery.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/CORDIS_EU
• YouTubeyoutube.com/user/CORDISdotEU
• Facebookfacebook.com/EUresearchResults
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/publications-office-of-the-european-union

Compliance2 records

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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