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cordis_projects — EU research projects and their participants (CORDIS, 1984-2026)

Description

Participations of organizations in the research projects funded by the European Union under its Framework Programmes for research and innovation, from FP1 (1984-1987) to Horizon Europe (2021-2027), from the project data of CORDIS (Community Research and Development Information Service) of the European Commission. Each network is the undirected bipartite network of the organizations (universities, research centers, companies, public bodies, ...) and the projects of one Framework Programme, where an edge links an organization to a project in which it takes part, as coordinator, participant, partner, associated partner or third party.

The networks are the programs:

  • fp1 (1984-1987), fp2 (1987-1991), fp3 (1990-1994), fp4 (1994-1998), fp5 (1998-2002), fp6 (2002-2006), fp7 (2007-2013): the closed earlier Framework Programmes;
  • h2020: Horizon 2020 (2014-2020);
  • horizon_europe: Horizon Europe (2021-2027), still ongoing;
  • combined: all the programs together, in one network.

Organizations are identified by the participant identification code (PIC) of the European Commission where the data give one (in FP7, Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe, and for a few organizations of FP4-FP6); otherwise (almost all organizations of FP1-FP6) they are identified by their exact name and country as given in the data, so that an organization whose name is spelled differently in different projects appears as several nodes. In the network combined, the organizations of all programs are merged in the same way: by their PIC where they have one, otherwise by their exact name and country. Since the PICs are missing before FP7, an organization that took part in earlier programs is thus usually split into several nodes (one with its PIC, from FP7 on, and one or more without, from the earlier programs, one per spelling of its name), and different organizations of the same name and country before FP7 are merged into one node. The attributes of an organization in combined are those of the last program in which it appears; the projects are those of all programs, with their program as a property (the project ids of different programs are kept apart). An organization that takes part in a project in several roles (e.g. as participant and as third party) has several edges to it, one per participation. Every project of the program is a node, including the few without any listed participant.

The data of CORDIS are updated in place (in particular those of Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe, which change as projects are signed and closed); the networks are of the files of October 2026 (the earlier programs were last updated in October 2024 and January 2025). The descriptions of the projects ("objective"), their reports, publications and deliverables, and the street addresses and contact forms of the organizations are left out.

The networks have the following properties:

  • (Node) is_project: whether the node is a project (otherwise it is an organization).
  • (Node) name: the name of the organization, or the title of the project.
  • (Node) id: the identifier of the organization (its PIC; empty if there is none) or of the project (its grant agreement number or reference).
  • (Node) acronym: the acronym of the project, or the short name of the organization.
  • (Node) program (network combined only): the program of the project (fp1, ..., h2020, horizon_europe; empty for organizations).
  • (Node) sme (organizations): whether it is a small or medium-sized enterprise: true, false or empty if unknown.
  • (Node) activity_type (organizations): HES: higher or secondary education, REC: research organization, PRC: private company, PUB: public body, OTH: other, and in FP6 also IND: industry and GOV: government; empty if unknown, as for almost all organizations before FP7.
  • (Node) city, post_code (organizations): the city and post code of the organization.
  • (Node) country (organizations): two-letter code, e.g. UK for the United Kingdom and EL for Greece.
  • (Node) nuts_code (organizations): the NUTS region code.
  • (Node) latitude and longitude (organizations): the coordinates of the organization (NaN if unknown).
  • (Node) url (organizations): its web site.
  • (Node) status (projects): CLOSED, SIGNED, TERMINATED; mostly empty before FP7.
  • (Node) start_date and end_date (projects): the start and end dates of the project (Unix time, -1 if unknown).
  • (Node) ec_signature_date (projects): Unix time of the signature of the grant, -1 if unknown.
  • (Node) total_cost and ec_max_contribution (projects): the total cost and the maximum contribution of the EU (in euros, NaN if unknown).
  • (Node) legal_basis (projects): the specific program, e.g. FP1-BRITE, H2020-EU.1.1..
  • (Node) topics, master_call, sub_call (projects): the topics, master call and sub call of the project.
  • (Node) funding_scheme (projects): the funding scheme (e.g. ERC-STG, RIA).
  • (Node) grant_doi (projects): the DOI of the grant.
  • (Node) keywords (projects): the keywords (from Horizon 2020).
  • (Node) euroscivoc (projects): the fields of science of the European Science Vocabulary assigned to the project, as paths such as natural sciences/physical sciences/nuclear physics/nuclear fusion, separated by |.
  • (Edge) role: the role of the organization in the project: coordinator, participant, partner, associatedPartner, internationalPartner or thirdParty (a few rows with misplaced fields in the data have other values).
  • (Edge) order: the position of the organization in the list of participants of the project.
  • (Edge) ec_contribution and net_ec_contribution: the (net) contribution of the EU to the organization for the project, in euros (NaN if unknown, as before FP7).
  • (Edge) total_cost: the total cost of the participation of the organization, in euros (NaN if unknown).
  • (Edge) end_of_participation: whether the participation ended early (true, false, or empty if unknown).
Tags
Social Collaboration Affiliation Bipartite Multigraph Unweighted Metadata
Added
2026-10-31
Citation
Upstream URL OK
https://cordis.europa.eu/projects
https://data.europa.eu/data/datasets?query=CORDIS%20EU%20research%20projects
Upstream license
European Commission reuse notice (CC BY 4.0), https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dec/2011/833/oj
Networks
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Column legend
$\left<k\right>$
Mean degree
$\sigma_k$
Standard deviation of the degrees
$\lambda_h$
Largest eigenvalue of the Hashimoto (non-backtracking) matrix
$\tau$
Random walk mixing time
$r$
Degree assortativity
$c$
Global clustering coefficient
$\oslash$
(Pseudo-) diameter
$S$
Relative size of the largest component
NPs
Node properties
EPs
Edge properties
Name Nodes Edges $\left<k\right>$ $\sigma_k$ $\lambda_h$ $\tau$ $r$ $c$ $\oslash$ $S$ Kind Mode NPs EPs gt GraphML GML csv
fp1 6,264 7,916 2.53 3.92 7.65 84.36 -0.09 0.00 19 0.78 Undirected Bipartite is_project name id latitude longitude euroscivoc acronym status start_date end_date ec_signature_date total_cost ec_max_contribution legal_basis topics master_call sub_call funding_scheme grant_doi keywords sme activity_type city post_code country nuts_code url role order ec_contribution net_ec_contribution total_cost end_of_participation 332 KiB 417 KiB 419 KiB 443 KiB
fp2 11,168 19,075 3.42 5.65 10.53 69.36 -0.06 0.00 17 0.93 Undirected Bipartite is_project name id latitude longitude euroscivoc acronym status start_date end_date ec_signature_date total_cost ec_max_contribution legal_basis topics master_call sub_call funding_scheme grant_doi keywords sme activity_type city post_code country nuts_code url role order ec_contribution net_ec_contribution total_cost end_of_participation 602 KiB 761 KiB 767 KiB 793 KiB
fp3 16,503 31,364 3.80 7.35 16.21 149.36 -0.04 0.00 19 0.90 Undirected Bipartite is_project name id latitude longitude euroscivoc acronym status start_date end_date ec_signature_date total_cost ec_max_contribution legal_basis topics master_call sub_call funding_scheme grant_doi keywords sme activity_type city post_code country nuts_code url role order ec_contribution net_ec_contribution total_cost end_of_participation 903 KiB 1.1 MiB 1.1 MiB 1.2 MiB
fp4 42,827 67,858 3.17 7.63 15.74 134.32 -0.07 0.00 22 0.87 Undirected Bipartite is_project name id latitude longitude euroscivoc acronym status start_date end_date ec_signature_date total_cost ec_max_contribution legal_basis topics master_call sub_call funding_scheme grant_doi keywords sme activity_type city post_code country nuts_code url role order ec_contribution net_ec_contribution total_cost end_of_participation 2.2 MiB 2.8 MiB 2.8 MiB 3.1 MiB
fp5 45,880 81,752 3.56 10.64 23.48 342.97 -0.05 0.00 20 0.88 Undirected Bipartite is_project name id latitude longitude euroscivoc acronym status start_date end_date ec_signature_date total_cost ec_max_contribution legal_basis topics master_call sub_call funding_scheme grant_doi keywords sme activity_type city post_code country nuts_code url role order ec_contribution net_ec_contribution total_cost end_of_participation 2.5 MiB 3.2 MiB 3.3 MiB 3.5 MiB
fp6 44,384 75,216 3.39 8.36 23.89 79.65 -0.03 0.00 15 0.94 Undirected Bipartite is_project name id latitude longitude euroscivoc acronym status start_date end_date ec_signature_date total_cost ec_max_contribution legal_basis topics master_call sub_call funding_scheme grant_doi keywords sme activity_type city post_code country nuts_code url role order ec_contribution net_ec_contribution total_cost end_of_participation 2.3 MiB 3.0 MiB 3.0 MiB 3.4 MiB
fp7 56,791 140,064 4.93 18.49 39.07 298.59 -0.10 0.00 14 0.99 Undirected Bipartite is_project name id latitude longitude euroscivoc acronym status start_date end_date ec_signature_date total_cost ec_max_contribution legal_basis topics master_call sub_call funding_scheme grant_doi keywords sme activity_type city post_code country nuts_code url role order ec_contribution net_ec_contribution total_cost end_of_participation 4.2 MiB 5.6 MiB 5.5 MiB 6.2 MiB
h2020 77,381 179,046 4.63 17.66 43.95 66.62 -0.09 0.00 14 0.87 Undirected Bipartite is_project name id latitude longitude euroscivoc acronym status start_date end_date ec_signature_date total_cost ec_max_contribution legal_basis topics master_call sub_call funding_scheme grant_doi keywords sme activity_type city post_code country nuts_code url role order ec_contribution net_ec_contribution total_cost end_of_participation 6.5 MiB 8.9 MiB 8.7 MiB 9.7 MiB
horizon_europe 59,579 148,155 4.97 16.60 37.07 45.31 -0.09 0.00 12 0.97 Undirected Bipartite is_project name id latitude longitude euroscivoc acronym status start_date end_date ec_signature_date total_cost ec_max_contribution legal_basis topics master_call sub_call funding_scheme grant_doi keywords sme activity_type city post_code country nuts_code url role order ec_contribution net_ec_contribution total_cost end_of_participation 5.2 MiB 7.1 MiB 6.9 MiB 7.7 MiB
combined 313,471 750,446 4.79 24.91 67.84 4441.25 -0.07 0.00 22 0.92 Undirected Bipartite is_project name id latitude longitude euroscivoc program acronym status start_date end_date ec_signature_date total_cost ec_max_contribution legal_basis topics master_call sub_call funding_scheme grant_doi keywords sme activity_type city post_code country nuts_code url role order ec_contribution net_ec_contribution total_cost end_of_participation 21.4 MiB 30.2 MiB 30.0 MiB 33.2 MiB