We built a search and matchmaking platform for EU research funding — and it's live at grantyou.eu.
The problem
EU funding search is broken for researchers. The official EC Funding & Tenders portal returns hundreds of results with no ranking, no context, and no way to know if your lab even fits the call. Finding relevant past projects funded under a similar scope — the ones that tell you what reviewers actually approved — requires hours of manual CORDIS digging.
Partner matchmaking is worse. You're expected to build international consortia through word of mouth and conference hallway conversations.
What GranYou does
Smart search across two layers:
- Open and upcoming calls from EC Funding & Tenders, ranked by relevance to your keywords or research abstract
- Funded projects from CORDIS (past + ongoing) to see what actually got approved in your area
Partner matchmaking:
- From any funded project, extract the full consortium (universities, research orgs, industry)
- Filter by country, institution type, and research domain
- Build your consortium list from real collaboration history, not cold outreach
Technical stack
- Backend: FastAPI + PostgreSQL with pgvector for semantic search
- Frontend: Next.js 14 App Router
- Auth: ORCID OAuth (the standard identity layer for researchers)
- Data sources: EC Funding & Tenders API, CORDIS API, OpenAire Research Graph
- LLM: Claude (Anthropic API with DPA, zero retention) for semantic matching and relevance scoring
- Hosting: Oracle VM EU-Paris + Cloudflare
The semantic search pipeline embeds your query or research abstract, runs vector similarity against our indexed CORDIS corpus, and re-ranks results using a cross-encoder. No hallucinated results — every match links back to a real funded project or open call.
Privacy first
EU proposals contain unpublished scientific work. We treat that seriously:
- PDFs are processed in-memory and deleted immediately after analysis
- No third-party analytics on analysis pages
- LLM provider has a DPA with zero data retention
- GDPR-native architecture from day one (not a retrofit)
What's next
The search and matchmaking MVP is live and free. We're building the agentic proposal review feature next: upload your draft, get structured feedback from three expert perspectives (scientific excellence, impact, project management) in the format reviewers actually use.
If you work in research or build tools for the research community, we'd love your feedback.
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