Eu Funding Tenders MCP Server

@pipeworx/eu-funding-tenders

EU Funding & Tenders Portal MCP — Horizon Europe and every other EU funding call plus EU tenders: what is open, when it closes, and the topic identifier to quote in an application.

Tools

• eu_search_calls(query?, status?, programme?, limit?, page?) — free-text search over EU grant topics (type=1). status takes plain words (open default, forthcoming, closed, any); programme takes a code such as horizon, life, erasmus, digital, cef, eu4h. Returns identifier, title, parent call, deadline, days remaining, status word, types of action, programme and portal URL.
• eu_open_calls(query?, programme?, limit?) — currently-open calls ordered by nearest deadline, days-until-deadline computed at request time.
• eu_get_topic(identifier, include_conditions?) — full detail for one topic (e.g. HORIZON-CL5-2026-09-D4-03): tag-stripped description, admissibility/eligibility conditions, indicative budget with expected number of grants and EU contribution per project, action types, deadline model, destination, cross-cutting priorities and submission links. Also resolves external-action references like EuropeAid/187022/DD/ACT/IN.
• eu_search_tenders(query?, status?, limit?, page?) — the same search against type=2, the Commission's external-action tenders and EuropeAid calls. Returns reference, country, contract budget + currency, deadline, status and portal URL.

Tools that legitimately cannot answer return { found: false, reason, hint } — unknown topic identifier, unknown programme code, no matching calls — rather than throwing.

Auth

Keyless. The portal's own public key (apiKey=SEDIA) is baked in; callers pass nothing.

Data sources

• Search endpoint: https://api.tech.ec.europa.eu/search-api/prod/rest/search?apiKey=SEDIA
• Human portal: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/home
• Topic pages: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/<identifier>
• External-action calls (Prospect): https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/prospect/external/publishedcalls.htm?callId=<id>

Gotchas. The request body is multipart/form-data and every part must carry Content-Type: application/json — send the parts as plain strings and the API answers HTTP 500 {"type":"throwable","message":"An internal error occurred"} with no clue what it wanted. In curl that is -F 'query={...};type=application/json'; in a Worker the only way to attach a per-part content type is to append a Blob with { type: 'application/json' }, and you must let fetch set the multipart boundary rather than setting Content-Type yourself. The text query param cannot be empty, so *** is the match-all term. Every value in a result's metadata is a single-element array (metadata.title === ["…"]), so each field needs unwrapping or every consumer gets arrays. descriptionByte and topicConditions are raw HTML with inline styles — this pack strips tags and collapses whitespace, including two upstream defects it leaves behind: literal <p>null</p> paragraphs, and a broken attribute quote (<div class="x>") that otherwise leaves a stray "> at the head of the conditions text. budgetOverview is a JSON string whose budgetTopicActionMap is keyed by internal ids; the matching entry is found by the action string, which starts with the topic identifier. The query DSL is a narrow subset of Elasticsearch: terms works, prefix is rejected with HTTP 400, and range is silently ignored (same totalResults, same rows) — so date windows cannot be pushed down. That matters because the portal leaves several hundred legacy topics flagged Open with deadlines years in the past (~250 of ~590 as of July 2026), which is why eu_open_calls sorts by deadlineDate ASC and binary-searches the result set for the first live deadline, and why eu_search_calls sorts DESC and drops past-deadline rows from the page it returns. frameworkProgramme is an internal numeric id, so the pack ships a code→id map (external-action records all use the placeholder 111111). Facet values worth knowing: type 1 = grant topics, 2 = tenders/external action, and status 31094501 = Forthcoming, 31094502 = Open, 31094503 = Closed (tender records add 310945031 and 99999998, both closed). type=2 also indexes portal FAQs, so tender queries pin DATASOURCE=SEDIA. Finally, text matching is loose — a nonsense phrase still returns hundreds of hits — so treat total_results as a relevance-ranked upper bound, not a count of true matches.

Quick Start

Add to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "eu-funding-tenders": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/eu-funding-tenders/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Or connect to the full Pipeworx gateway for access to all 1375+ data sources:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Using with ask_pipeworx

Instead of calling tools directly, you can ask questions in plain English:

ask_pipeworx({ question: "your question about Eu Funding Tenders data" })

The gateway picks the right tool and fills the arguments automatically.

More

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• pipeworx.io

License

MIT