These rules apply to all content relating to EU funding, independently from its allocation field (e.g. education, research and innovation etc.). Extensive external user research with stakeholders has shown that content relating to EU funding is one of the three main reasons why visitors are using the Commission’s websites. These rules are intended to ensure that such content is made as clear and as helpful as possible for stakeholders.
There are different categories in the European Union’s funding scheme:
Learn more about EU funding categories in the EU funding for beginners section of the European Commission’s website.
The funding proposal and application process depends on how the funding is managed. As a consequence, the obligations in terms of publication will also depend on its management mode. There are three different modes:
Learn more about funding management types in the funding by management mode section of the European Commission’s website.
Effective web communication around funding programmes helps to:
The European Commission’s website www.ec.europa.eu publishes an overview of the funding opportunities financed by the programmes under the 2021-2027 Multiannual Financial Framework and NextGenerationEU, each with its own dedicated page to:
If DGs are required to provide further information on a programme they have authority on for this content, DG COMM will be in touch with the Unit concerned.
To ensure this effective and consistent communication of EU directly-managed programmes across the European Commission’s web presence, DGs must register the calls for proposal on the European Commission’s official Funding & Tender opportunities platform, also known as Single Electronic Data Interchange AREA (SEDIA). This is the entry point for participants and experts in funding programmes and tenders managed by the European Commission and other EU bodies.
The portal provides a platform for the electronic management of calls for proposals and tenders and facilitates interactions with the EU Institutions. Applicants can search for funding bodies, calls for proposals, find partners or submit a project.
If they wish to, DGs can communicate about a funding programme on their own website or a dedicated one but must link this content to the call for proposal on the funding and tender opportunities platform.
For more information about funding and tender opportunities platform, please contact EC-FUNDING-TENDER-SERVICE-DESK@ec.europa.eu.
Programmes under shared or indirect management have dedicated sites or are hosted on the responsible DG’s or the managing authority’s website. The rules of the authority in charge of the selection and award procedures apply.
Your DG or funding programme website should provide access to calls for tender.
For more information about the the eTed Tendering platform, please contact: OP-TED-HELPDESK@publications.europa.eu.
All calls on Commission owned websites, may they be for funding or tender, under direct, shared or indirect management, have to appear in accordance with the European Commission’s web presence rules and guidelines on DGs websites, so pay attention to the following:
When the calls for tender and the calls for proposal appear on Commission owned websites as well as on the official platform - respectively the eTed Tendering platform and the Funding & Tender opportunities platform - the content from the Commission owned websites should link to the official platform. Moreover, please make sure the calls for proposal also appear on the dedicated European Commission website’s page.
If your site is developed with the corporate web development platforms (Europa Web Publishing Platform or Open Europa), you must use the call for proposals content type for funding programmes and the call for tenders content type to launch a tender.
For more information on the content types, please go to the step by step guides to content types.
Need further assistance on this topic? Please contact the team in charge: COMM Europa Management.
The Europa Web Guide is the official rulebook for the European Commission's web presence, covering editorial, legal, technical, visual and contractual aspects.
All European Commission web sites must observe the rules and guidelines it contains.
Web practitioners are invited to observe its contents and keep abreast of updates.
More information about the web guide.