What does Bemzu actually do?
It reads every open call from 7 public funders, the EU Funding & Tenders Portal, grants.gov, GrantConnect, e-Rad and the rest, and checks each one against your organisation on the conditions that decide admissibility: whether a consortium is required, how much co-financing you would have to carry, the maturity the topic expects, and whether the cut-off is still reachable. You get the calls you can enter, with the sentence behind every verdict.
Is it free, and do I need an account?
The fit check is free and needs no account. Your answers are held in your own browser and never sent anywhere, the scoring runs on your device, against a copy of the corpus the page has already downloaded.
Where does the data come from?
Only from the funders themselves. Each source is fetched daily, stored verbatim, and everything published here is derived from that stored copy. Nothing is typed in by hand and nothing is scraped from aggregators.
Why do you list fewer open calls than the portal?
Because a call whose last cut-off has passed is not open, whatever its status field says. On the last build 1129 calls our sources still list as open had already closed, so they are not here. The methodology page shows the whole chain.
Can my company apply alone, without a consortium?
Often, yes, but it is the first thing to check, and it is the gate most applicants get wrong. Every call on the site says which structure it requires, quoted from the conditions where the funder states it, and marked as inferred where we derived it from the type of action.
How current is what I am reading?
The corpus is re-synced every night and the site is rebuilt with it. Deadlines and countdowns are recomputed at build time, so a call that closed since the last sync drops out rather than sitting here with a stale countdown.
When do grant deadlines actually fall?
Not evenly. September carries 40% of every cut-off on this site, with October and November behind it, and August is close to empty. European work programmes open in spring and close before the autumn evaluation rounds; the US federal cycle bunches its own deadlines near the end of the fiscal year. Two consequences for planning: the autumn is when your writing capacity is scarcest, and a call you find in August usually has real time left on it.
How long do I get between finding a call and its cut-off?
The median call is open 134 days. A quarter give 79 days or fewer, which is why the fit check asks how fast you can realistically submit, and why it blocks a call you cannot reach rather than ranking it politely. Measured over 1277 calls that publish both an opening date and a cut-off.
What decides whether I am eligible at all?
Four things, and none of them is the quality of your idea: whether the call requires a consortium (470 do, 1703 accept a single applicant), how much co-financing you have to bring (281 of 472 calls with a published rate cover the full cost), the maturity the topic expects, and whether the remaining days are enough for you to submit. Admissibility is arithmetic, proposals fail on it before anyone reads the science.
How do I judge my odds before writing anything?
Read the denominator. 946 of the calls here publish how many grants the funder expects to award, which (set against the budget) tells you far more than the headline figure. A call funding four projects and a call funding two hundred can carry the same money and are not remotely the same bet.
Is this only EU funding?
No. It began as EU-only and now covers the EU, the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan and Korea. Most national programmes restrict eligibility to entities established in that country, so the coverage is useful in two ways: a European organisation reads the EU-level calls as its own shortlist, and reads the rest as a map of who funds what, where, which is exactly what you need before opening an office or finding a partner abroad.
What do you not do?
We do not write proposals, we do not predict your chances, and we are not an official EU service. Everything here is decision support built from public data: where a page and the official call text disagree, the call text is right and we want to hear about it.
