How the register works

Where the data comes from, how often we check it, how we count statuses and numbers, and what the register does not cover yet. If anything here disagrees with what you see on the site, that is a mistake: please tell us.

Sources: Only the pages of the bodies that award the measures. The register now holds 164 measures: EIS 54, PRIA 39, KIK 21, LEADER 21, KUM 7, Töötukassa 6, RTK 5, MES 4, Tallinn 2, Kultuurkapital 1, Narva linn 1, Ida-Viru Ettevõtluskeskus 1, Eesti Filmi Instituut 1, EIC 1. Every row links to the funder's page and shows the date it was last checked. Consultants' blogs and retellings are not used as sources.
How often we check: Every morning a program opens the funders' pages and compares them with the register. Deadlines that EIS and PRIA publish in a fixed format come in automatically. Amounts, terms and anything that can be read two ways are checked by a person.
Statuses: “Open”: applications are being accepted. “Closing soon”: 14 days or fewer until the deadline. “Opens soon”: an opening date has been announced. “Closed”: the window has ended or the money ran out. All times are Tallinn time. If the funder gives no date, we do not invent one. “No dates announced”: the funder has not said whether applications are open.
How we count: Share of first-come, first-served measures: measures where the money goes to whoever applies first, divided by all measures whose procedure is known. Measures whose procedure we could not establish are left out. “Windows where the money ran out”: past windows in our archive where the funder itself said the budget was used up, divided by all windows in the archive. These are two different numbers and we never mix them. The measure count includes loans and guarantees; the “open now” lists on topic pages show grants only.
Who can apply: We read the legal form, size and stage from each measure's page on 04.11.2026. Where the page says nothing, the measure stays in the matcher's results, so suitable money is not hidden from you. The exact terms are always at the source.
Not covered yet: Measures from ETAg and direct EU programmes, and most municipal measures. The support rate is often not stated: EIS pages usually give the required own contribution rather than a rate, and deriving one from the other would be guessing.
Mistakes: Found a wrong row? Use “Report an error” next to it or write to info@lifkuru.com. We fix wrong rows first: a wrong row is worse than a missing one.
Who runs it: The register is run by lifkuru OÜ (registry code 17604498). It is not a government site. Funders do not pay us and places in the list are not for sale: the order of rows depends only on dates. lifkuru OÜ earns from its own services: setting up AI for companies and delivering grant-funded projects turnkey, and an offer of help with an application goes only to people who separately agreed to it.