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'''CORDIS''', is the '''Community Research and Development Information Service''', is an interactive information portal available at http://cordis.europa.eu to support European research and innovation cooperation. Advisory services on conducting research using CORDIS is available at [[European Documentation Centre]]s across the [[European Union]].

It is the European Commission's primary public repository and portal to disseminate information on all EU-funded research projects and their results in the broadest sense.

==Aims==

CORDIS’s principal aims are:

The website and repository include all public information held by the Commission (project factsheets, publishable reports and deliverables), editorial content to support communication and exploitation (news, events, success stories, magazines, multilingual "results in brief" for the broader public) and comprehensive links to external sources such as open access publications and websites.

# facilitate participation in the activities of European research, in particular FP7 (the [[Seventh Framework Programme]])

# publish the results of projects funded by the EU

Advisory services on conducting research using CORDIS is available at [[European Documentation Centre]]s across the [[European Union]].

# promote the dissemination of knowledge in order to reinforce the innovation capacity of enterprises

# contribute to bridge the gap between citizens and science.

==Services and activities==

CORDIS offers access to a broad range of information and services on EU research, including:

*The primary repository of EU-funded research projects and their results since 1990, including the formal deliverables collected by the European Commission

*Multilingual "Results in brief" that summarise the outcomes of research project for a broader public and to support exploitation of results

*Daily news, events, funding opportunities and research showcases, provided by both the European Commission and by user contributions

*Free subscriptions to the research*eu results magazines, also available as PDF and eBooks

*An interactive environment to find [http://cordis.europa.eu/partners/ research partners] and to support discussion forums

*Daily news, events, funding opportunities and research showcasesevents, provided by both the European Commission and by user contributions

*Many thematic services, national contact points, a library of documents, user guidance and a range of search facilities, including custom email alerts and RSS feeds

*An interactive environment to find [http://cordis.europa.eu/partners/ research partners] and to support discussiononline forumsgroups

*Further databases and services to support EU research activities

*Search and reuse facilities, including custom email alerts, RSS feeds and XML extractions

The CORDIS website is available in six languages (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Polish), although much of the scientific content is only in English.

CORDIS content dates back to the origin of the service in 1990 and the website has been online since 1994, as the first website of the European institutions.

==Organisation and legal basis==

CORDIS is provided by the [[Publications Office of the European Union]] on behalf of the research Directorates-General of the [[European Commission]]. It is financed by the Cooperation programme of the [[Seventh Framework Programme]] for Research and Technological Development (FP7).

CORDIS is managed by the [[Publications Office of the European Union]], on behalf of the [[European Commission]]'s research Directorates-General and Agencies.

CORDIS was created in 1990 following a Communication of the Commission for the implementation of an RTD information service (SEC(1988)1831). It has been online since 1994.

CORDIS was created in 1990 following a Communication of the Commission for the implementation of an RTD information service (SEC(1988)1831). It has been online since 1994.

The legal basis and financing of CORDIS derive from the work programmes of [[Horizon 2020]] Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development.

The current legal basis of CORDIS is [http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32006D1982:EN:NOT Decision No. 1982/2006/EC] of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006 concerning the [[Seventh Framework Programme]].

== External links ==