Deadline: 23-Sep-2025
The European Commission (EC) is seeking proposals for the Projects on Legislative and Policy Priorities (PLP) for the green transition in Urban spaces.
Objective
- In a context of limited resources and multiple priorities, this specific funding topic intends to support the green transition in urban spaces in a cross-sectoral and integrated way. It aims to bolster the capacity of urban local authorities to adopt integrated approaches and to unlock the potential of interconnections between the various environmental, climate and energy challenges existing at urban level and addressing them in a cross-sectoral and integrated way e.g. on circular economy, zero pollution, nature and biodiversity, clean energy transition and climate action.
- By offering support to local authorities to develop and implement ambitious integrated approaches that can effectively provide solutions to key challenges across the environmental, climate and energy policy areas, it is expected to contribute to the implementation of various Union environmental, climate and/or energy legislation and/or policies in urban spaces and to maximise the co-benefits of an integrated approaches.
Scope
- Proposals should aim to deliver pilot projects, ambitious impactful integrated solutions and approaches, demonstrations of new technology, and/or support to uptake of integrated green technologies and/or innovative approaches to governance models.
- Proposals shall target one or more challenge(s) belonging to at least 2 of the three main fields of intervention of the LIFE Programme (Environment, Energy and Climate) and addressing at least three of six thematic areas of intervention:
- Main field of Intervention: Environment
- pollution (including air, water, soil pollution)
- resource efficiency (including circular economy and waste management),
- nature restoration and biodiversity
- Main field of Intervention: Energy
- energy transition (including renewables, energy efficiency and/or clean heating and cooling)
- Main field of Intervention: Climate
- climate change mitigation
- climate change adaptation
- Main field of Intervention: Environment
Funding Information
- The available call budget is EUR 21 800 000.
- For Projects on Legislative and Policy Priorities (PLP) for the green transition in Urban spaces: EUR 8 000 000
Duration
- Projects may last from 36 to 60 months
Expected Results and Impacts
- The projects expected results and impacts should showcase that deployment of integrated solutions to common EU environmental, climate and energy challenges can deliver more than the sum of sector specific interventions.
- Results and impacts should be estimated in a quantitative way for each specific areas of intervention addressed by the project and of any other co-benefits. The use of compounded indicators at the urban level can also be envisaged. The number of inhabitants that will benefit from the expected results and impacts should be quantified.
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
- EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs))
- the coordinator must be established in an eligible country.
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