What you may do with this

If you are a researcher

Nothing here is aimed at you. Copy a deadline into your calendar, paste a call into an email, print the list, send it to a colleague. No conditions, no attribution, nothing to read. That is the whole point of the tool.

What is actually covered

Not the deadlines. A closing date is a fact. Facts belong to nobody — not to us and not to the funder. Anyone may read that a call closes on a given day and say so.

Three things here are not facts:

1. The compilation. Which 28 registers to read, which rows in them are calls rather than news, which are still open, and what each date means. In the EU that assembly is protected by the database right (Directive 96/9/EC), which exists for exactly this case — contents nobody can own, gathered at substantial cost.
2. The exclusion clauses. For 832 of the 1,325 calls listed, the scope text has been read and the clauses that would rule an applicant out are quoted. That is work, not a fact copied from somewhere.
3. The site's own text, code and design.

The terms

Non-commercial republication — a university newsletter, a research office bulletin, a mailing list, a blog.

Permitted under CC BY-NC 4.0. It asks one thing: say where it came from, with a link to fundingradar.eu. No permission needed and no email required — go ahead.

Commercial or systematic reuse — a paid product, a subscription service, another aggregator, an AI training set, or automated extraction of a substantial part of the database.

Ask first: [email protected], or the contact form at s-n-m.eu. This is the single case these terms exist for.

What we cannot license to you

Some of the underlying material arrives under terms of its own, and we can grant you neither more nor less than we were given:

• US federal calls are United States Government works, in the public domain. We make no claim over them and could not.
• EU portal calls are reusable under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU.
• UKRI publishes under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Where a source is more permissive than this page, the source wins for that material. The compilation right covers the collection; it does not reach back and restrict a public-domain fact. Every source's own licence is listed on the sources page.

If you are citing it

Attribution is the condition, and this is the form of it. A paper describing the register is deposited with a DOI:

Kahlem, P. (2026). Funding Radar: an open register of public research funding calls, with machine-read closing dates and per-record reuse terms (snapshot of 5 October 2026) [Data set and resource description]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23169743

That DOI names one frozen snapshot and will not move. For whatever is current instead, use 10.5281/zenodo.23169742, which always resolves to the newest version. Full terms and the method are on the About page.

Why not simply all rights reserved

Because the tool exists for institutions with no research development office, and a licence they have to think about is a licence that stops them. The restriction is aimed at one case only: an organisation reselling this work, or republishing it at scale without saying whose it is.

And why not fully open: the paid competitors charge institutions tens of thousands a year for the comparable product. A free feed they could ingest and resell would fund them rather than this. The non-commercial clause is what keeps the tool free for the people it was built for.