GSS EU Science Funding Gateway

The LIFE Programme is the EU’s funding instrument for the environment and climate action. The general objective of LIFE is to contribute to the implementation, updating and development of EU environmental and climate policy and legislation by co-financing projects with European added value. After 22 years, €3.4 billion and 4.170 projects, the LIFE Programme continues to finance actions for the environment and climate action.

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Applications will only be considered eligible if their content corresponds wholly (or at least in part) to the topic description for which it is submitted.

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 or countries which are in ongoing negotiations for an association agreement and where the agreement enters into force before grant signature (list of participating countries)
• the coordinator must be established in an eligible country.

Consortium composition TA-R projects are designed to enable upscaling and/or replication of results funded under previous LIFE projects or of other Union programmes, as long as they contribute to the objectives of the LIFE programme.

The former project beneficiary should in principle be the coordinator of the TA-R project. In well justified cases it may participate not as a coordinator, but it should in any case be part of the TA-R project consortium.