Deadline: 23-Sep-25
The European Commission is accepting applications for its LIFE Climate Change Governance and Information to support the development, implementation, monitoring and enforcement of the Union legislation and policy on climate change, contributing to climate change mitigation and/or adaptation.
This includes improving governance through enhancing the capacities of public and private actors and the involvement of civil society.
Objectives
- Activities for the sole purpose of raising the awareness of certain groups are deemed insufficient to achieve these objectives, and therefore should be complemented with concrete measures that facilitate a change in behaviour or practices. Projects which aim to develop tools or studies must include specific and concrete action to implement these tools and studies during the duration of the project.
Focus Areas
- Identifying climate or environmental issues that are not sufficiently communicated in the context of climate action or adaptation.
- Increasing climate awareness and fostering public engagement to counter opposition, misinformation, and disinformation.
- Encouraging behavioural change and supporting climate action.
Area of Intervention
- Raising awareness, incentivising behavioural change and supporting the activities of the European Climate Pact;
- Green skills & capacity building to implement climate mitigation and adaptation policies;
- Building capacity, raising awareness among end-users and the equipment distribution chain of fluorinated greenhouse gases;
- Support to the development, update and implementation of national, regional or local climate and energy strategies and plans;
- Activities linked to the implementation of Sustainable Finance actions;
- Greenhouse gas monitoring and reporting;
- Development of geographically-explicit inventories for the LULUCF sector, creation of carbon removal registries and certification schemes and organisation of capacity building activities and advisory services;
- Knowledge sharing and capacity building on the EU Emissions Trading System;
- Climate policy monitoring, assessment and ex-post evaluation.
Funding Information
- The indicative available call budget is EUR 61,500,000.
- Topic Budget: EUR 5,500,000
- Indicative range of project budgets: EUR 0.7-2 Mln
Eligible Projects
- working with youth, local communities, professional communities and networks, media etc. to advance climate awareness and build understanding and support for climate mitigation and adaptation action (e.g. dialogues and roundtables, cocreation initiatives, systemic societal transformation labs, awareness campaigns);
- giving local or regional communities a voice and space to design new climate actions, identifying, boosting and building on existing actions or triggering and catalysing new ones, in particular bottom-up initiatives by citizens and civil society at regional and local level;
- awareness raising, engagement and capacity building to prevent and fight climaterelated dis- and misinformation;
- supporting societal transformations through bridging environmental, social and economic divides, using innovative ways of working between different stakeholders
- supporting societal transformations through bridging environmental, social and economic divides, using innovative ways of working between different stakeholders;
- implementing nature-based solutions and improving climate resilience in urban and rural areas, including green spaces, water retention measures, and climate-proofing buildings and infrastructure;
- promoting sustainable mobility and transport solutions to reduce emissions and enhance climate-friendly urban planning;
- engaging diverse social groups, including less active segments of society, through innovative climate communication, education, and digital tools such as gamification and citizen science;
- exploring new economic models, financing mechanisms, and democratic approaches to accelerate the transition to climate neutrality.
Eligibility Criteria
- In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
- be legal entities (public or private bodies)
- be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
- EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs))
- non-EU countries: listed EEA countries and countries associated to the LIFE Programme
- the coordinator must be established in an eligible country.
Ineligibility Criteria
- Applicants which are subject to an EU exclusion decision or in one of the following exclusion situations that bar them from receiving EU funding can NOT participate:
- bankruptcy, winding up, affairs administered by the courts, arrangement with creditors, suspended business activities or other similar procedures (including procedures for persons with unlimited liability for the applicant’s debts)
- in breach of social security or tax obligations (including if done by persons with unlimited liability for the applicant’s debts)
- guilty of grave professional misconduct (including if done by persons having powers of representation, decision-making or control, beneficial owners or persons who are essential for the award/implementation of the grant)
- committed fraud, corruption, links to a criminal organisation, money laundering, terrorism-related crimes (including terrorism financing), child labour or human trafficking (including if done by persons having powers of representation, decision-making or control, beneficial owners or persons who are essential for the award/implementation of the grant)
- shown significant deficiencies in complying with main obligations under an EU procurement contract, grant agreement, prize, expert contract, or similar (including if done by persons having powers of representation, decision-making or control, beneficial owners or persons who are essential for the award/implementation of the grant)
- guilty of irregularities within the meaning of Article 1(2) of Regulation No 2988/95 (including if done by persons having powers of representation, decision-making or control, beneficial owners or persons who are essential for the award/implementation of the grant)
- created under a different jurisdiction with the intent to circumvent fiscal, social or other legal obligations in the country of origin or created another entity with this purpose (including if done by persons having powers of representation, decision-making or control, beneficial owners or persons who are essential for the award/implementation of the grant)
- intentionally and without proper justification resisted an investigation, check or audit carried out by an EU authorising officer (or their representative or auditor), OLAF, the EPPO, or the European Court of Auditors.
- Applicants will also be rejected if it turns out that:
- during the award procedure they misrepresented information required as a condition for participating or failed to supply that information
- they were previously involved in the preparation of the call and this entails a distortion of competition that cannot be remedied otherwise (conflict of interest).
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