---
id: "eu_pic"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["government", "companies"]
country: ["EU"]
langs: ["en"]
quality: 85
url: "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/eu_pic"
---

# EU Participant Identification Code (PIC) (`eu_pic`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Nine-digit Participant Identification Code of an organization registered to take part in EU funding programmes (Horizon Europe, Erasmus+). CORDIS gives it as organisationID next to the project number.

- Parent datatype: `id`
- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Government related (government), Companies/business/organizations (companies)
- Countries: European Union (EU)
- Languages: English (en)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^\d{9}$
```

## Examples

- `999997930` — CORDIS Horizon Europe participant
- `990797674` — CORDIS Horizon Europe participant
- `101069506` — A grant agreement number has the same length
- `99999793` (invalid example) — Eight digits

## Metacrafter rules

1 rules: 0 match the field name, 1 match values.

- `eupicvalue` (data, `eu/eu_funding.yaml`)

## Supported by tools

- `metacrafter`

## Sources

- doc: <https://cordis.europa.eu/>

## Quality

Score 85/100. Missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), translation.

JSON: <https://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/eu_pic.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/EU/government/eu_pic.yaml>