Deadline: 14 June 2018(Concept Notes)
LIFE is seeking applications for its Environmental Governance and Information Programme which aims specifically at contributing to the development and implementation of EU environmental policy and legislation.
Projects financed must have a European added value and be complementary to actions that can be financed under other EU funds during the period 2014-2020.
Objectives
The specific objectives of the priority area LIFE Environmental Governance and Information are:
- To promote awareness raising on environmental matters, including generating public and stakeholder support of Union policy-making in the field of the environment, and
- To promote knowledge on sustainable development and new patterns for sustainable consumption;
- To support communication, management, and dissemination of information in the field of the environment, and to facilitate knowledge sharing on successful environmental solutions and practice, including by developing cooperation platforms among stakeholders and training;
- To promote and contribute to more effective compliance with and enforcement of Union environmental legislation, in particular by promoting the development and dissemination of best practices and policy approaches;
- To promote better environmental governance by broadening stakeholder involvement, including NGOs, in consultation on and implementation of policy.
Eligibility Criteria
- A proposal may be submitted by any legal person registered in the European Union.
- Entities participating in the proposal may fall into three types of beneficiaries:
- Public bodies,
- Private commercial organisations and
- Private non-commercial organisations (including NGOs).
- The concept note must be submitted in English.
- Please note that so called ‘Sole traders’ (i.e. entities owned and run by one individual and where there is no legal distinction between the owner and the business) are considered natural persons and are therefore not eligible to participate as beneficiary or affiliate in this call.
How to Apply
Applicants can apply via given website.
For further information, please visit European Commission.