[OpenSpending] Finding documents

Tue Jul 2 19:46:06 UTC 2013

The most comprehensive additional data source is probably CORDIS,
http://cordis.europa.eu/projects/home_en.html, which has details on all the
FP7 grants in the FTS dataset. It'd be cool to get a scraper for this.

- Friedrich

On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Ronny Patz <rpatz at transparency.org> wrote:

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> For some grants, the responsible Directorate General (DG) publishes
> additional information on their own websites, i.e. the calls for proposals
> and the overview of the organisations chosen/rejected. Some calls for
> proposals may have been published on the official journal of the EU.****
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> For anything else, you might have to go through FOI requests to the
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> *From:* openspending-bounces at lists.okfn.org [mailto:
> openspending-bounces at lists.okfn.org] *On Behalf Of *Anders Pedersen
> *Sent:* 02 July 2013 15:19
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> *Cc:* info at openspending.org; Johnny McDevitt
> *Subject:* Re: [OpenSpending] Finding documents****
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> Hi Johnny, ****
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> I'm looping in our mailing list, as others might be able to chip in with
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> The source: The Financial Transparency System<http://ec.europa.eu/budget/fts/index_en.htm>from which the data originates is published by the European Union.
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> As for the original document ID/number this is likely more tricky to
> locate. I don't know if additional information can be traced at national
> governments, for instance.
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> Does anyone else know where to locate additional information about grants
> in the EU Financial Transaprency System?
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> Best,
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> On 2 July 2013 09:08, Johnny McDevitt <johnnyemcdevitt at gmail.com> wrote:**
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> I'm a journalist using your fantastic site. I'm looking at EU grants given
> to a number of companies but was wondering if there's a way to see the
> original grant document or official source for the information?****
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> Best,****
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