diff --git a/dhp-workflows/dhp-aggregation/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/actionmanager/project/ProjectSubset.java b/dhp-workflows/dhp-aggregation/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/actionmanager/project/ProjectSubset.java
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+++ b/dhp-workflows/dhp-aggregation/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/actionmanager/project/ProjectSubset.java
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+package eu.dnetlib.dhp.actionmanager.project;
+
+import java.io.Serializable;
+
+public class ProjectSubset implements Serializable {
+
+    private String code;
+
+    public String getCode() {
+        return code;
+    }
+
+    public void setCode(String code) {
+        this.code = code;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/dhp-workflows/dhp-aggregation/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/actionmanager/project/ReadProjectsFromDB.java b/dhp-workflows/dhp-aggregation/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/actionmanager/project/ReadProjectsFromDB.java
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+++ b/dhp-workflows/dhp-aggregation/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/actionmanager/project/ReadProjectsFromDB.java
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+package eu.dnetlib.dhp.actionmanager.project;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+import eu.dnetlib.dhp.application.ArgumentApplicationParser;
+import eu.dnetlib.dhp.common.DbClient;
+import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
+import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
+import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSDataOutputStream;
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem;
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
+
+import java.io.BufferedWriter;
+import java.io.Closeable;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
+import java.sql.ResultSet;
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.function.Consumer;
+import java.util.function.Function;
+
+public class ReadProjectsFromDB implements Closeable {
+
+    private final DbClient dbClient;
+    private static final Log log = LogFactory.getLog(ReadProjectsFromDB.class);
+    private final Configuration conf;
+    private final BufferedWriter writer;
+    private final ObjectMapper OBJECT_MAPPER = new ObjectMapper();
+
+    private final static String query = "SELECT code " +
+            "from projects where id like 'corda__h2020%' " ;
+
+    public static void main(final String[] args) throws Exception {
+        final ArgumentApplicationParser parser = new ArgumentApplicationParser(
+                IOUtils
+                        .toString(
+                                ReadProjectsFromDB.class
+                                        .getResourceAsStream(
+                                                "/eu/dnetlib/dhp/actionmanager/project/read_projects_db.json")));
+
+        parser.parseArgument(args);
+
+        final String dbUrl = parser.get("postgresUrl");
+        final String dbUser = parser.get("postgresUser");
+        final String dbPassword = parser.get("postgresPassword");
+        final String hdfsPath = parser.get("hdfsPath") ;
+        final String hdfsNameNode = parser.get("hdfsNameNode");
+
+        try (final ReadProjectsFromDB rbl = new ReadProjectsFromDB(hdfsPath, hdfsNameNode, dbUrl, dbUser,
+                dbPassword)) {
+
+            log.info("Processing blacklist...");
+            rbl.execute(query, rbl::processProjectsEntry);
+
+        }
+    }
+    public void execute(final String sql, final Function<ResultSet, List<ProjectSubset>> producer) throws Exception {
+
+        final Consumer<ResultSet> consumer = rs -> producer.apply(rs).forEach(r -> writeProject(r));
+
+        dbClient.processResults(sql, consumer);
+    }
+
+    public List<ProjectSubset> processProjectsEntry(ResultSet rs) {
+        try {
+            ProjectSubset p = new ProjectSubset();
+            p.setCode(rs.getString("code"));
+
+            return Arrays.asList(p);
+
+        } catch (final Exception e) {
+            throw new RuntimeException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    protected void writeProject(final ProjectSubset r) {
+        try {
+            writer.write(OBJECT_MAPPER.writeValueAsString(r));
+            writer.newLine();
+        } catch (final Exception e) {
+            throw new RuntimeException(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    public ReadProjectsFromDB(
+            final String hdfsPath, String hdfsNameNode, final String dbUrl, final String dbUser, final String dbPassword)
+            throws Exception {
+
+        this.dbClient = new DbClient(dbUrl, dbUser, dbPassword);
+        this.conf = new Configuration();
+        this.conf.set("fs.defaultFS", hdfsNameNode);
+        FileSystem fileSystem = FileSystem.get(this.conf);
+        Path hdfsWritePath = new Path(hdfsPath);
+        FSDataOutputStream fsDataOutputStream = null;
+        if (fileSystem.exists(hdfsWritePath)) {
+            fileSystem.delete(hdfsWritePath, false);
+        }
+        fsDataOutputStream = fileSystem.create(hdfsWritePath);
+
+
+        this.writer = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(fsDataOutputStream, StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void close() throws IOException {
+        dbClient.close();
+        writer.close();
+    }
+}
+
diff --git a/dhp-workflows/dhp-aggregation/src/main/resources/eu/dnetlib/dhp/actionmanager/project/read_projects_db.json b/dhp-workflows/dhp-aggregation/src/main/resources/eu/dnetlib/dhp/actionmanager/project/read_projects_db.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9a2eadaa7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dhp-workflows/dhp-aggregation/src/main/resources/eu/dnetlib/dhp/actionmanager/project/read_projects_db.json
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+[
+	{
+		"paramName": "p",
+		"paramLongName": "hdfsPath",
+		"paramDescription": "the path where storing the sequential file",
+		"paramRequired": true
+	},
+	{
+		"paramName": "nn",
+		"paramLongName": "hdfsNameNode",
+		"paramDescription": "the name node on hdfs",
+		"paramRequired": true
+	},
+	{
+		"paramName": "pgurl",
+		"paramLongName": "postgresUrl",
+		"paramDescription": "postgres url, example: jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/testdb",
+		"paramRequired": true
+	},
+	{
+		"paramName": "pguser",
+		"paramLongName": "postgresUser",
+		"paramDescription": "postgres user",
+		"paramRequired": false
+	},
+	{
+		"paramName": "pgpasswd",
+		"paramLongName": "postgresPassword",
+		"paramDescription": "postgres password",
+		"paramRequired": false
+	}
+]
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