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About the data

R&D Compass makes the funded projects published by FFG searchable. This page explains where the figures come from, what they count and what they do not contain.

As of

As of 27 Oct 2026. This is the last successful reconciliation with the FFG project database; it runs every night.

Scope

The figures count 8,033 published FFG projects with funding start from 2013 to 2027.

This is not FFG's full portfolio. FFG publishes about 700 to 1,000 project starts per year, considerably fewer than it funds in total. Figures in R&D Compass therefore differ from FFG's official figures.

Sources

  • FFG project database (projekte.ffg.at): title, funding period, programme, participating organisations and short description.
  • Calls on ffg.at, reconciled daily.
  • Publicly findable evidence on the web for individual projects, each with source and date.
  • Background pages from Austria in Space, GTIF and FFG.

Terms

Running
The project's funding period includes today. FFG's status "active" also includes projects whose period has ended and whose closure at FFG is still open; both numbers are shown separately.
New
Funding start within the last 12 months, not the date a project was added to the database.
Federal state
Registered seat of the participating organisation, not where the work happens. The state is known for about 90 percent of Austrian organisations. A project with partners in several states counts in each.
Consortium project
FFG records a project with several funded partners as several grants. R&D Compass counts it once.

Not included

  • Funding amounts: FFG does not publish a grant amount per project.
  • Company size, so no SME share either.
  • Information on people and gender.
  • Submitted and rejected applications, so no success rates.
  • EU projects from Horizon Europe; these are listed in CORDIS (cordis.europa.eu).
  • Which ministry a project is attributed to.

FFG publishes official figures on these in its annual report (ffg.at).

Hosting and privacy

R&D Compass runs on servers of Hetzner Online GmbH in Falkenstein, Germany.

The chat's language model is Microsoft's Azure OpenAI and processes requests within the EU data zone.

Chat histories are deleted 365 days after the last activity.

Administrators of LETO SPACE GmbH can read chat histories for quality assurance. Answers are also graded automatically via Azure OpenAI in the EU data zone.