Projects on Legislative and Policy Priorities in the fields of Nature & Biodiversity and Circular Economy & Quality of Life
Based on article 11 of the LIFE Regulation 2021/783, the LIFE Multi Annual Work Programme 2021-2024, includes the possibility to finance each year a limited number of projects designed to support specific needs for the development and implementation of Union environment policy and legislation.
Once a year, in consultation with Member States, the Commission makes an inventory of the specific needs regarding the development and implementation of Union environmental or climate policy and legislation that require to be addressed during the following years and identifies among them the ones that could be addressed by specific projects.
Scope:Point 4.1.4 of the LIFE 2021-2024 Multi Annual Work Programme indicates that under ?Other Actions?, additional projects responding to the Union legislative and policy priorities could be determined on annual basis, following a consultation with Member States.
The list of specific priorities to be addressed in this call is provided under the Section 2 of the Call document. Each specific priority spells out the specific needs to be addressed, the activities that can be funded, the expected impacts and any other requirement.
Expected Impact:Applicants are expected to define, qualify and quantify the expected impacts of their proposal in light of what is described in the call document (see Call document section 2). This will be assessed as described in the Award criterion ?Impact? (see Call document section 9).
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
- Submission and evaluation processes: described section 8 of the call document and the Online Manual
- 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 documents:
Mandatory annexes to the application form
Optional annexes
Letters of support (no specific template)
Other (not mandatory) annexes such as Cofinancing declaration, Maps, Description of sites
LIFE Reference Documents
LIFE Programme General MGA v1.0
Annoted Model Grant Agreement (AGA)
EU Financial Regulation 2018/1046
Please read carefully all provisions below before the preparation of your application.
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.Please read carefully all provisions below before the preparation of your application.
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.
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