The Community Research and Development Information Service (CORDIS) from the European Commission has launched a new service which unlocks EU-funded projects information. This new service will be a comprehensive reference point for project participants, coordinators and stakeholders.

The access to the information on research and technology development EU projects will be facilitated by the new service launched by CORDIS, the Community Research and Development Information Service. The new Projects Service, launched on 16 January 2012, is designed not only to be a comprehensive reference point for project participants, coordinators and stakeholders, the service will also make information and data available to wider audiences.

The new Projects Service will unlock content, standardise the presentation of project information, and help users to find out more. The new service therefore provides tools and pointers that can help filter and facilitate search queries. Even when a project has finished, specific project information can help with result development, the planning of new initiatives, the indication of new research avenues and more.

In addition, it will use the breadth of the CORDIS repository as a base to bring together a wide variety of information related to individual projects, including project details such as description, funding, programme; project results such as documents, reports, summaries; links; publications; multimedia; and information and details on project participants. CORDIS has project records covering a myriad of science, technology and research-related fields and topics dating from before 1986 to the present and they relate to not only the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), but also previous Framework Programmes.