Deadline: 23-Sep-25
The European Commission is now seeking proposals for the Environmental Governance Topic.
Objectives
- The aim is to facilitate the transition toward a sustainable, circular, toxic-free, energy efficient/climate-resilient economy and toward a toxic-free environment as well as to protect, restore and improve the quality of the environment.
- The specific objective is to cover one or more of the following topics:
- Activities in support of public administrations’ decision-making and voluntary approaches
- Environmental compliance assurance and access to justice
- Behavioral change and awareness-raising initiatives
Scope
- The present Call topic targets Standard Action Projects (SAP) aimed at achieving the objectives of the Circular Economy and Quality of Life sub-programme. SAP are defined in section 2 (Type of Action) while the general objectives of the subprogramme in section 1 (‘Circular Economy and Quality of Life’).
- This call topic focus exclusively on environmental governance projects, other projects as defined in the related Call topic named LIFE-2024-SAP-ENV-ENVIRONMENT as well as LIFE-2024-SAP-NAT-GOV are excluded.
- Third countries associated to the LIFE Programme: The assessment of each proposal will be done in line with the provisions of the relevant association agreement.
Funding Information
- The estimated available call budget is EUR 79,500,000
- Topic Budget: EUR 6,500,000
- Indicative range of project budgets: EUR 0,7 – 2 Mln
- Project duration: between 24 and 120 months indicatively (extensions are possible, if duly justified and through an amendment).
Expected Impact
- Applicants are expected to define, calculate, explain and achieve the expected impacts as described in the Award criterion ‘Impact’.
- All LIFE proposals will have to report on their expected outputs and impacts taking into account the LIFE Key Performance indicators (KPIs). These KPIs will contribute to evaluating the impact of the LIFE proposals on an environmental but also socioeconomic level (e.g. via actions impacting the local economy and population).
- Applicants should review relevant indicators in Part C of the eGrant application and complete them with the estimated impact of the project.
- In case Part C does not include impact indicators that are important for your project (e.g.: NOx emission reduction for projects targeting Air Quality Plans) applicants should make use of the indicator “Other project specific KPIs” in Part C and provide a relevant description of such indicators in section 2 of Part B of the Application Form.
- 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.
- More detailed KPI information will be requested during the project implementation time.
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.
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