This paper presents a semantics-driven web portal allowing browsing and flexible querying state-of-the-art data on organizations, national and international projects, current research topics, technologies and software solutions in the domain of the European Research in the FP6/IST program. The backbone of this portal consists of an ontology-based knowledge base structuring information about the above-described area. The portal incorporates advanced information retrieval methods, based on ontologies and on natural language processing.