Extracting Funding Amounts from State Funding Programs

In this challenge, you have the opportunity to join a Civic Data Lab project aimed at increasing transparency around the German government’s funding policies for organizations and initiatives that strengthen democracy. We have prepared a scraped dataset from www.foerderdatenbank.de and invite you to participate in the next step: developing a method to automatically extract funding amounts. This can be treated as a Named Entity Recognition (NER) or information extraction task. The ultimate goal is to quantify how much the German government spends on promoting democracy.

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