Details
- Funding programme or initiative
- LIFE Programme
- Country
- AustriaBelgiumBulgariaCroatiaCyprusCzechiaDenmarkEstoniaFinlandFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryIrelandItalyLatviaLithuaniaLuxembourgMaltaNetherlandsPolandPortugalRomaniaSlovakiaSloveniaSpainSwedenIcelandMoldovaNorth MacedoniaUkraine
- Lighthouse
- Atlantic and Arctic basinBaltic and North Sea basinMediterranean Sea basinDanube-Black Sea
- Deadline date
- 19 September 2024
- Status
- Open
- Publication date
- 18 April 2024
- Mission Objectives
- 1. Ecosystems and Biodiversity2. Pollution prevention and elimination3. Carbon Neutral and Circular Blue Economy
- Mission Topics
- Relevant to Blue Parks Community
- Associated Regions
- No
Description
The LIFE sub-programme of Circular Economy and Quality of Life aims to facilitate the transition toward a sustainable, circular, toxic-free, energy-efficient and climate-resilient economy and toward a toxic-free environment as well as to protect, restore and improve the quality of the environment. The objective of this sub-programme is to support EU environmental policy and legislation through innovative, techniques methods and approaches, improvements in governance, and through catalysing the large-scale deployment of successful technical and policy-related solutions.
Objectives:
Proposals for Standard Action Projects can cover the following topics:
- Circular economy and waste
- Air
- Water
- Soil
- Noise
- Chemicals
- A new European Bauhaus
A maximum of two sub-topics will be considered per proposal.
Topics and their sub-topics under this sub-programme that are relevant to the Mission Ocean and Waters objectives are the following:
- circular economy and waste
- recovery of resources from waste
- circular economy and the environment
- water
- water quality and quantity
- marine and coastal water management
Eligible applicants:
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 territories and countries, Iceland, Moldova, North Macedonia, Ukraine).
- The coordinator must be established in an eligible country.
Beneficiaries and affiliated entities must register in the Participant Register.
Budget:
Total sub-programme budget of EUR 73 million.
Duration:
Between 24 and 120 months indicatively (extensions are possible, if duly justified and through an amendment).
Related links
LIFE-2024-SAP-ENV-ENVIRONMENT call for proposals
Call document: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/docs/2021-2027/life/wp-call/2021-2024/call-fiche_life-2024-sap-env_en.pdf
Support for applicants: https://cinea.ec.europa.eu/programmes/life/life-support-applicants_en#ecl-inpage-1377
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.
Contact points
IT Helpdesk: Contact the IT helpdesk for questions such as forgotten passwords, access rights and roles, technical aspects of submission of proposals, etc.
National Contact Points: Get in touch with your national contact point (NCP) for the LIFE programme. They can help you with your application and organise information/networking events and proposal writing workshops. They can also support you in communicating and disseminating your project results.
