2020 LIFE call for proposals for traditional projects – environment and resource efficiency
Summary
The sub-programme for the Environment concentrates on three priority areas:
- Environment and Resource Efficiency
- Nature and Biodiversity
- Environmental Governance and Information
Programme Name
Call
Detailed Call Description
The priority area Environment and Resource Efficiency focuses on:
According to the LIFE Regulation, LIFE Environment and Resource Efficiency projects must be demonstration or pilot projects, which are defined as follows:
- “pilot projects” means projects that apply a technique or method that has not been applied or tested before, or elsewhere, and that offer potential environmental or climate advantages compared to current best practice and that can subsequently be applied on a larger scale to similar situations;
- “demonstration projects” means projects that put into practice, test, evaluate and disseminate actions, methodologies or approaches that are new or unknown in the project’s specific context, such as geographical, ecological, socio-economic, and that could be applied elsewhere in similar circumstances;
Pilot and demonstration projects under the priority area Environment and Resource Efficiency must contain actions that lead to substantial and measurable direct effects on the environmental and/or climate action issue(s) targeted.
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
55%
Eligibility For Participation Notes
NOTE: For UK-based applicants: Please be aware that following the entry into force of the EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement on 1 February 2020 and in particular Articles 127(6), 137and 138, the references to natural or legal persons residing or established in a Member State of the European Union are to be understood as including natural or legal persons residing or established in the United Kingdom. UK legal persons are therefore eligible to participate under this call.
Programme Category
EU Competitive ProgrammesTotal Budget
The amount available for co-financing action grants for all types of "traditional" projects under the Environment sub-programme is indicatively set at EUR 238,440,000.Thematic Categories
- Agriculture - Farming - Forestry
- Rural development
- Trade and Commerce
Eligibility for Participation
- Farmers, Agriculturalists
- Fishermen, Aquaculturists, Owners of Vessels
Call Opening Date
18/03/2021Call Closing Date
14/05/2021National Contact Point(s)
Competent Authority
Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment
Department of Environment
CY – 1498 Nicosia
National contact point for sub-programme ENVIRONMENT
Ms. Marilena PAPASTAVROU
Environment Officer
Tel: +357 22408926
E-mail: mpapastavrou@environment.moa.gov.cy