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Subsidies

Who receives public money, from whom and for what? Five registers, each with its own amount, never added together.

114,720 recipients in the Flemish register5 registers 775,222 entries 10-11-2026 last updated

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EU contribution, per year (the project's start year)

EU contribution
€386.2m
in euro, as the register states it
Recipients
263
legal entities with an enterprise number
Entries
1,073
of which 41 without an amount

From 2007 to 2027. These figures cover 84.2% of what the register states for those years. The rest goes to natural persons or stands in the register without a usable enterprise number.

Largest recipients

  1. AVESTA HOLDING Company · East Flanders · Electrical equipment · 2019 to 2026Largest of 2 programmes: Horizon Europe
    €27.5m 35 entries
  2. SAFRAN AERO BOOSTERS Company · Liège · Other transport equipment · 2008 to 2026Largest of 3 programmes: Horizon Europe
    €24.1m 16 entries
  3. ARCELORMITTAL BELGIUM Company · Brussels · Basic metals · 2015 to 2024Largest of 2 programmes: Horizon Europe
    €16.2m 19 entries
  4. Société Nationale de Construction Aérospatiale Company · Hainaut · Other transport equipment · 2008 to 2026Largest of 3 programmes: Horizon 2020
    €15.5m 35 entries
  5. GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals Company · Walloon Brabant · Pharmaceuticals · 2010 to 2024Largest of 3 programmes: Horizon 2020
    €15.2m 26 entries

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Per year

  1. €20,305 '07 2007, EU contribution €20,305, 1 recipient
  2. €11.5m '08 2008, EU contribution €11,481,627, 21 recipients
  3. €5.5m '09 2009, EU contribution €5,456,582, 17 recipients
  4. €9.3m '10 2010, EU contribution €9,336,058, 19 recipients
  5. €8.3m '11 2011, EU contribution €8,273,089, 22 recipients
  6. €11.4m '12 2012, EU contribution €11,412,245, 28 recipients
  7. €13.5m '13 2013, EU contribution €13,549,675, 24 recipients
  8. €18.5m '14 2014, EU contribution €18,473,062, 10 recipients
  9. €25.4m '15 2015, EU contribution €25,372,946, 41 recipients
  10. €11.9m '16 2016, EU contribution €11,916,131, 41 recipients
  11. €25.6m '17 2017, EU contribution €25,598,622, 45 recipients
  12. €17.7m '18 2018, EU contribution €17,682,745, 44 recipients
  13. €21.5m '19 2019, EU contribution €21,512,435, 47 recipients
  14. €29.1m '20 2020, EU contribution €29,144,617, 51 recipients
  15. €18.8m '21 2021, EU contribution €18,817,526, 44 recipients
  16. €47.0m '22 2022, EU contribution €47,043,991, 46 recipients
  17. €40.9m '23 2023, EU contribution €40,937,691, 60 recipients
  18. €27.7m '24 2024, EU contribution €27,654,811, 54 recipients
  19. €19.8m '25 2025, EU contribution €19,813,014, 39 recipients
  20. €22.4m '26 2026, EU contribution €22,391,396, 41 recipients
  21. €288,540 '27 2027, EU contribution €288,540, 9 recipients

The year is the project's start year.

Who pays

Framework programmes

  1. Horizon 2020 €163.7m
  2. Horizon Europe €160.6m
  3. Seventh Framework Programme €61.9m

Conditions and calls are not in the register. The register itself: European Commission, CORDIS (opens the source's website)

By sector

  1. NProfessional and technical services €4.06bn
  2. QEducation €2.43bn
  3. TOther services €418.7m
  4. CManufacturing €386.2m
  5. 26Computer and electronic products €64.6m
  6. 20Chemicals €64.4m
  7. 27Electrical equipment €51.9m
  8. 30Other transport equipment €48.0m
  9. 21Pharmaceuticals €38.2m
  10. 28Machinery and equipment €28.5m
  11. 24Basic metals €17.8m
  12. 25Fabricated metal products €16.8m
  13. 32Other manufacturing €14.8m
  14. 23Non-metallic mineral products €7.9m
  15. 29Motor vehicles €6.9m
  16. 33Repair and installation of machinery €6.3m
  17. 22Rubber and plastics €4.8m
  18. 13Textiles €3.7m
  19. 14Clothing €3.6m
  20. 10Food products €3.4m
  21. 18Printing €3.0m
  22. 16Wood and cork €695,106
  23. 17Paper €623,810
  24. 19Coke and refined petroleum €123,750
  25. 11Beverages €80,000
  26. KTelecoms and IT €240.2m
  27. OAdministrative and support services €190.4m
  28. AAgriculture, forestry and fishing €77.0m
  29. PPublic administration €72.8m
  30. GWholesale and retail trade €61.5m
  31. HTransport and storage €43.2m
  32. RHealth and social work €38.8m
  33. Sector not known €35.5m
  34. EWater and waste €29.5m
  35. LFinance and insurance €26.8m
  36. JPublishing and media €23.2m
  37. FConstruction €22.6m
  38. SArts, sports and recreation €18.9m
  39. DEnergy €14.9m
  40. MReal estate €8.6m
  41. IAccommodation and food service €786,528
  42. BMining and quarrying €194,400

The sector is the main activity in NACE-BEL 2025 per the KBO.

By region

  1. Flanders €226.2m
  2. Wallonia €115.3m
  3. Brussels €44.7m

A recipient counts in the province of its registered office.

Kind of organisation

  1. Companies €386.0m
  2. Non-profits and foundations €215,625

The kind follows from the legal form in the KBO.

Method and sources

The register (2007 to 2027) holds 22,498 entries. 18,226 of them are shown, 84% of the "eu contribution" amount. These are the recipients with an enterprise number that are legal entities. Not shown: 7 of natural persons or sole traders, 3,827 without an enterprise number, 438 with a number no longer (or never) in the open KBO data.

The contribution covers the whole project, dated by its start year; it is paid out over the project's life.

The register at its source: European Commission, CORDIS (opens the source's website)

Flemish subsidies (Flemish government, subsidy register): Awarded and paid, per the year the register states the support for. Awarded and paid are two different amounts and are never added. Corrections appear as negative amounts in the register.

Wallonia-Brussels Federation (Wallonia-Brussels Federation, subsidy cadastre): Paid, per the year of the payment. The cadastre carries enterprise numbers only from 2021; payments from 2019 and 2020 cannot be linked to any company.

Federal transfers (FPS BOSA, financial transfers of the federal government): Amount as published, per the year of the transfer. BOSA states no currency with its amounts; they are shown as published. Most transfers are filed under an establishment unit and linked to its enterprise.

EU budget (European Commission, Financial Transparency System): Attributed share, per the budget year of the commitment. The register does not separate grants from procurement. Where the Commission publishes no split per beneficiary, the entry counts without an amount.

EU research (European Commission, CORDIS): EU contribution, per the project's start year. The contribution covers the whole project, dated by its start year; it is paid out over the project's life.

The registers do not count the same money. They hold awarded and paid subsidies, payments, invoiced transfers, attributed shares of EU commitments and contributions to research projects. So each register stands apart, never a total across registers.

Only legal entities with an enterprise number appear in the lists. Natural persons and sole traders are not shown, even where the register states their number. They do count in the register's coverage. Sector, province and kind of organisation come from the KBO.

The figures are as the register publishes them and are updated every night. Checked adds them up per recipient, year and programme, within one register. Last updated on 10-11-2026.