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Call for Projects: LIFE Technical Assistance – Replication (TA-R)

Deadline: 27-Jul-23

The European Commission (EC) is inviting proposals for the LIFE Technical Assistance – Replication (TA-R) projects to facilitate the upscaling or replication of results funded under the LIFE programme or, where relevant to fulfil the objectives of the LIFE programme, under another EU-funded programme.

Objectives
  • The objectives of LIFE Technical Assistance – Replication (TA-R) projects are to facilitate the upscaling or replication of results funded under the LIFE programme or, where relevant to fulfil the objectives of the LIFE programme, under another EU-funded programme.
  • Only proposals in the field of ‘Environment’ (i.e. ‘Nature and Biodiversity’ and ‘Circular Economy and Quality of Life’) will be eligible for this call.
  • Activities may include different catalytic dimensions (the elements of this non-exhaustive list can be combined):
    • Spatial dimension:
      • Transferring results of successful projects (i.e. best practices) beyond the geographic boundaries of the project to EU Member States or to third countries associated to the LIFE programme;
      • Widening the network of protected areas by identifying and/or designating additional protected or strictly protected sites, based on the experience of past LIFE projects, to help guaranteeing the completeness of Natura 2000 network;
    • Societal dimension:
      • Removing local/regional/national legislative barriers to help ensuring sustainability and/or replication of finalised projects;
      • Substantial transfer of knowledge gained in a project to relevant stakeholders, including in another sector/region/country, including with an aim of mainstreaming nature and environmental objectives into other policies and leading to policy changes;
      • Organising extensive awareness raising campaign(s) to promote exceptional project results with a goal of achieving considerable behavioural change;
    • Financial dimension:
      • Facilitating the access to other EU or non-EU financial instruments (i.e. preparing and submitting applications) and leverage additional funding in line with the LIFE objectives (e.g. by incorporating schemes and measures developed or piloted by LIFE projects into other funding streams);
      • Only for projects not already benefitting from the support to LIFE Close-toMarket projects: the additional steps needed to effectively market the product/service developed through a previous project in line with the LIFE objectives (e.g. developing business strategy, business canvas, advisory activities, follow-up activities, market / feasibility study);
    • Thematic dimension:
      • Project’s impacts may be replicated in other thematic areas. For example, a technology or a practice developed as a result of a project on nature and biodiversity may be applied via the TA-R project to protect, restore or improve soil quality.
Scope

The TA-R projects could co-finance the activities necessary:

  • to prepare the up-scaling and/or replication of the results of previous LIFE projects or of other Union programmes, as long as they contribute to the objectives of the LIFE programme.
  • to facilitate the access of an operation contributing to the LIFE objectives to other financial instruments. This support for investment and replication appears strategic in view to supporting the materialization of green investments on the ground.
Thematic Areas
  • Nature and biodiversity
  • Air quality
  • Soil
  • Water
  • Waste
  • Chemicals
  • Noise
  • Resource use and efficiency
  • Environmental governance
Funding Information
  • The estimated available call budget is EUR 6 500 000.
    • public bodies (entities established as public body under national law, including local, regional or national authorities) or international organisations
    • if the project requested grant amount is not more than EUR 60 000.
Expected Impact
  • proposal for a Technical Assistance – Replication (TA-R) project is expected to go beyond the sustainability requirements and the replication and transfer strategy and/or close-to-market Business plan that is a mandatory deliverable in LIFE projects.
  • As such, it should exceed the replication/transfer efforts and objectives foreseen in the preceding LIFE project and/or it should address issues emerging during a LIFE project that could not be solved during its duration, despite being extremely relevant for the success and sustainability of the project’s results. In case of proposals based on other EU-funding programmes, similar criteria will be applied.
  • The proposals must also demonstrate that the proposed action is of Union interest by making a contribution to the achievement of one of the general objectives of the LIFE Programme set out in Article 3 of the LIFE regulation and by contributing to the aims and specific objectives of the LIFE sub-programme “Nature and Biodiversity” or of the LIFE sub-programme “Circular Economy and Quality of Life”.
  • If relevant, projects must upload a Geographic Information System (GIS) file and associated data of the specific geographical area where the intervention took place as a deliverable in their final report. This map should enable to spatially visualise the impact already reported in the KPI database. The specific format and technical requirements of the GIS files will be provided to the supported projects during their implementation.
Eligibility Criteria
  • Applications will only be considered eligible if their content corresponds wholly (or at least in part) to the topic description for which it is submitted.
  • 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:
        • EEA countries and countries associated to the LIFE Programme or countries
    • the coordinator must be established in an eligible country.
  • Specific Cases
    • Exceptional funding — Entities from other countries (not listed above) are exceptionally eligible, if the granting authority considers their participation essential for the implementation of the action.
    • Natural persons — Natural persons are NOT eligible (with the exception of selfemployed persons, i.e. sole traders, where the company does not have legal personality separate from that of the natural person).
    • International organisations — International organisations are eligible. The rules on eligible countries do not apply to them.
    • Entities without legal personality — Entities which do not have legal personality under their national law may exceptionally participate, provided that their representatives have the capacity to undertake legal obligations on their behalf, and offer guarantees for the protection of the EU financial interests equivalent to that offered by legal persons.
    • EU bodies — EU bodies (with the exception of the European Commission Joint Research Centre) can NOT be part of the consortium.

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