Product changelog

What's new on EU Fund Portal

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28 April 2026

Awards layer + 2 new countries + 9 source rebuilds

Added

•TED Contract Award Notices (CAN) feed — ~600 above-threshold EU public contract awards per week with named winning supplier, contract value, conclusion date and buyer organisation
•CORDIS Horizon Europe Awards — 800 awarded research projects covering €4.5B in EC contribution with coordinator organisation, country, EC award value and signature date
•France BOAMP open data — 100 live tender notices per cron run, replacing the flagged inline scraper
•France BOAMP awards (Résultat de marché) — 100 awarded contracts per run with named titulaire
•Spain PLACSP atom feed — 81 published tenders per pull, 100% with buyer + amount + CPV code
•Spain PLACSP awards (ADJ/RES/FORM) — 55 awarded contracts per run, 96% with named adjudicatario + 100% amount
•Netherlands TenderNed AGO — 100 awarded contracts per run with full buyer + procedure metadata
•United Kingdom FTS via OCDS — 64 awarded contracts per run, 100% with named supplier
•United Kingdom UKRI Gateway to Research — most-recently-modified UK research council and Innovate UK funded projects
•Italy ANAC SIMOG awards — 800 contract awards covering €82.5B awarded value, 90% with named winning company + tax ID
•Portugal IMPIC BASE awards — 800 contract awards covering €2.86B, 100% with named buyer and supplier
•Türkiye (TÜBİTAK) — 40 active support programmes across academic / industry / bilateral cooperation tracks
•Serbia (Innovation Fund) — 14 programmes across grants, equity (Serbia Ventures) and consortium-led research
•Croatia rebuilt via fondovieu.gov.hr (NPOO) — replacing the dead HAMAG-BICRO WP-JSON scraper
•Germany Bund.de — rewritten against the public search HTML listing after the legacy RSS feed was retired

Changed

•Coverage expanded to 32 European countries (EU 27 + EEA + UK + CH + TR + RS), ~2,300+ records refreshed daily across 50+ active sources
•Country marketing copy refreshed across BE, DE, GR, MT, HR — apologetic banners removed, source lists updated to reflect actual delivery
•Awards now distinguishable in /browse via the Contract Award and Grant Award tag filters, status=Closed

Fixed

•Malta + Romania (MIPE) re-enabled after diagnosing that both scrapers worked despite the 6-day-dark flag
•Source health monitoring now tracks Bund.de awards alongside Förderdatenbank

16 April 2026

Phase 1 + 2 launch polish

Added

•PWA manifest, dynamic favicons, and apple-touch-icon for installable app
•robots.txt with sitemap reference and protected-route disallows
•/api/health endpoint returning DB ping status for uptime monitoring
•Structured data: GovernmentGrant on grant detail pages, AdministrativeArea on country pages, BreadcrumbList site-wide
•Open Graph + Twitter cards on every public route
•Conversion event tracking: trial_started, search_performed, team_invited

Changed

•Account pages now noindex; auth pages keep links followable but unindexed
•hreflang en + x-default declared on the root page

15 April 2026

Source reliability sprint

Added

•Public /api/ingest/grants endpoint with worker_runs receipt table for external scraper jobs

Fixed

•Malta Enterprise scraper now finds support schemes via the underlying JSON payload
•TED country codes normalised to ISO-2
•Greece 2.0 and Wellcome Trust sources revived without Playwright dependency
•Marketing copy harmonised with the actual source coverage

14 April 2026

Premium monetization + SEO fortress

Added

•Match scores, application checklists, and free alert tier
•EU funding pillar page with internal link fortress for SEO
•Wednesday weekly insights email separated from the daily admin ops digest

Changed

•Marketing pages refreshed with new premium feature messaging
•Search Console coverage improved — grant metadata added, duplicate country pages removed

13 April 2026