Distinguish grant, project and contract
Identify beneficiary, year and instrument in FTS, then find a relevant CORDIS project or TED notice without forcing a match.
Documents to open in this workflow
This order suggests a starting point; revisit a step if identifiers, dates or versions disagree. Access and reuse terms depend on each service.
EU Financial Transparency System — FTS
Find beneficiaries, purposes and amounts of EU funding covered by the financial transparency system.
What to record
Project or funding: beneficiary, period and defined amount. Observation period, file version and extraction date; read revisions and flags.
Source-specific check
Read accounting year, expenditure type and management scope. The system is not an exhaustive inventory of every organisation’s funding and does not establish project impact.
Open source portalCORDIS
Find EU framework-funded research projects, participants, reports and published deliverables.
What to record
Project identifier, programme, partners, dates, exact deliverable and version or publication date.
Source-specific check
Funding and stated objectives do not establish completion or commercial adoption.
Open source portalTED — Tenders Electronic Daily
Explore published European public procurement notices, tenders and awards.
What to record
Notice identifier and type, buyer, lot, publication and correction dates, consulted version.
Source-specific check
A call for bids, an award and evidence of delivery are different stages.
Open source portal
Matching condition
Link recipient, instrument, project, year and currency; separate project totals and accounting entries.
If results disagree
If a total appears doubled, check overlap or instalments before summing.
Output to produce
Table of instruments and non-overlapping amounts.
Separate documentary evidence, demonstrated links between documents and remaining inference. State the owner and review trigger.
Supporting methods
Producer references
Matching table to complete
This is a blank template, not a research result. Record the exact item and observation for each source before making the decision.
| Source | Document or exact URL | Date and version | Observation and passage | Scope and limit | Link established or unestablished |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EU Financial Transparency System — FTS | To record | To record | To record | To record | To record |
| CORDIS | To record | To record | To record | To record | To record |
| TED — Tenders Electronic Daily | To record | To record | To record | To record | To record |
Frequently asked questions
What link should be checked before matching results?
Link recipient, instrument, project, year and currency; separate project totals and accounting entries.
What if sources appear to contradict each other?
If a total appears doubled, check overlap or instalments before summing.
Do the listed portals provide independent confirmation?
Not necessarily. Identify the producer and underlying document. Two interfaces distributing one item can check transcription but do not establish a fact independently twice.