CORDIS Horizon 2020 project data

CORDIS Horizon 2020 project data

CORDIS, the European Commission's research-results portal, provides bulk downloads of Horizon 2020 project records via data.europa.eu, no account needed. The CORDIS services page says: "Bulk downloads: Download datasets of all projects from each framework programme, along with related reference data, from data.europa.eu in XML, CSV, XLS, and JSON formats."

Coverage

The data.europa.eu dataset "CORDIS - EU research projects under Horizon 2020 (2014-2020)" describes six sub-sets, including "H2020 projects – which includes participating organisations, legal basis information, topic information, project URLs and classification with the European Science Vocabulary (EuroSciVoc)", H2020 project IPRs (patent data limited to awarded patents in the European Patent Office database), project deliverables and publications (included since May 2019), periodic/final report summaries (included since September 2018), and Principal Investigators in Horizon 2020 ERC projects. Formats offered across the distributions include XML, CSV, Excel XLSX and JSON. Update cadence, verbatim: "CORDIS datasets are produced monthly."

Verdict

Bulk XML/CSV/XLSX/JSON records of EU Horizon 2020 (2014–2020) research-and-innovation projects — participants, legal basis, topics, EuroSciVoc classification, IP/patent data, deliverables and publications — downloaded keylessly from data.europa.eu; CORDIS's own export tools are not needed. Licensed Custom: data.europa.eu's distribution metadata labels the licence "European Commission reuse notice", resource "https://data.europa.eu/eli/dec/2011/833/oj" (the Commission's Decision 2011/833/EU on the reuse of Commission documents) — the same reuse-decision pattern as the existing eurlex-cellar-sparql entry, but a distinct dataset (research-project records, not legal-document metadata). Do not hard-code file sizes; they change between the dataset's monthly refreshes. Rate limits: Not stated. Signal Lab links only.