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Nature Governance

General information
Programme: Programme for the Environment and Climate Action (LIFE)
Call: LIFE-2024-SAP-NAT
Type of Action: LIFE Project Grants
Type of MGA: LIFE Action Grant Budget-Based
Open for submission
Deadline model: single-stage
Planned Opening Date: 18 April 2024
Planned Closing Date: 19 September 2024
Topic Description
Objective:

To contribute to the protection of nature and biodiversity by:

  • Supporting nature and biodiversity policy and legislation compliance assurance, and/or
  • Promoting effective public participation and access to justice in nature and biodiversity policy and legislation-related matters.
Scope:

The present Call topic targets Standard Action Projects (SAP) aimed at achieving the objectives of the LIFE Nature and Biodiversity sub-programme by improving governance at all levels, as defined in sections 1 and 2 of the Call document.

This call topic focuses exclusively on governance projects; other projects in line with the objectives of the LIFE Nature and Biodiversity sub-programme but defined in the Call topic LIFE-2024-SAP-NAT-NATURE are excluded.

Expected Impact:

Applicants are expected to define, calculate, explain and achieve ambitious and credible impacts in terms of conservation benefit, ensuring at the same time long term sustainability and replication (see sections 2 and 9 of the Call document).

Topic Conditions and Documents

Conditions

1. Admissibility conditions: described in section 5 of the call document 

Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System

2. Eligible countries: described in section 6 of of the call document

3. Other eligibility conditions: described in section 6 of the call document

4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion: described in section 7 of the call document

5. Evaluation and award:

  • Award criteria, scoring and thresholds: described in section 9 of the call document
  • Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement: described in section 4 of the call document

6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants: described in section 10 of the call document

Documents

Call document

Standard application form — call-specific application form is available in the Submission System

 

Mandatory Annexes to the application form:

1.     Detailed budget table 

2.     Participant information

 

Optional Annexes:

§  Letters of support

§  Cofinancing declaration

§  Maps

§  Description of sites

§  Description of species and habitats

§  Other Annexes (for example: Lifecycle analysis, Business plans etc.)
 

FAQs in LIFE website

LIFE Reference Documents

Annotated Grant Agreement

LIFE General MGA v1.0

LIFE Work Programme 2021-2024

LIFE Regulation 2021/783

EU Financial Regulation 2018/1046

Get Support

Please read carefully all provisions below before the preparation of your application.

Consult the FAQs in LIFE website

Get in touch with your National Contact Point (NCP)We want also to draw your attention on the possibility to get support from your NCP. To facilitate such support, it would be beneficial to add your NCP under the “Participants” step of the application, by clicking on “Add contact”. Then, Under “Project role”, use the option “Contact person” and add your NCP’s data.

Consult the Funding & Tenders Portal FAQ – Submission of proposals

IT Helpdesk – Contact the IT helpdesk for questions such as forgotten passwords, access rights and roles, technical aspects of submission of proposals, etc.

Online Manual – Step-by-step online guide through the Portal processes from proposal preparation and submission to reporting on your on-going project. Valid for all 2021-2027 programmes.

Call Updates

Updates - News

Call

Apr 18, 2024 12:00:01 AM

The submission session is now available for: LIFE-2024-SAP-NAT-NATURE(LIFE-PJG), LIFE-2024-SAP-NAT-GOV(LIFE-PJG)

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