Programme Category
Programme Name
Programme Description
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.
Identifier Code
Call
Summary
Under this topic, projects shall lead to a smart and outcome-based implementation of the EU nature and biodiversity legislation. Projects should cover one or more of the following general sub-topics:
- Behavioural change and awareness-raising initiatives
- The topic supports actions that raise awareness, improve communication and knowledge sharing, and strengthen environmental governance in nature and biodiversity conservation. It promotes stakeholder involvement, including NGOs, in policy development and implementation, and gives priority to proposals highlighting the benefits of nature conservation, particularly the Natura 2000 network.
- Compliance assurance, as well as public participation and access to justice (Aarhus Convention)
- The actions aim to strengthen compliance with EU nature and biodiversity legislation by promoting public participation, access to justice, and cooperation among relevant authorities, experts and stakeholders. They also support training, improved professional qualifications, better information systems, innovative tools, and citizen engagement to monitor, promote and enforce compliance, including through environmental liability mechanisms.
- Enabling actions for the replication and upscaling of proven solutions
- Proposals should prepare the wider deployment, transfer or replication of proven solutions already demonstrated through LIFE or other EU-funded initiatives, provided they support the objectives of the Nature and Biodiversity sub-programme. The actions should focus only on creating the enabling conditions for large-scale uptake, without implementing the replication itself, and must explain why this was not achieved in previous projects.
Detailed Call Description
- Raising awareness on nature and conservation issues, EU nature policies, tools and/or legislation among the relevant target audiences, aiming to change their perceptions and fostering the adoption of supporting behaviours and practices, and/or direct citizen’s engagement. Applicants need to provide substantial evidence that a change of awareness levels38 in the field addressed by the project is a crucial factor supporting correct implementation and/or future development of EU nature and biodiversity conservation policies tools and/or legislation. The awareness-raising activities should have the widest coverage relevant for the specific issue targeted.
- Promoting good practices, supporting implementation, organising trainings, educational, academic programmes, etc. to ensure effective compliance assurance, as well as public participation and access to justice in nature and biodiversity policy and legislation-related matters amongst the public (including youth and future professionals), NGOs, lawyers, the judiciary, public administrations or other stakeholders with a view to improving knowledge, understanding and application of effective means of public participation and/or access to justice, with a particular focus on protecting nature and biodiversity via the nature, biodiversity, water and environmental liability instruments.
- Enabling actions for the replication and upscaling of proven solutions should be new, complementary and/or additional to the original project and must demonstrate a clear contribution to accelerating the uptake of validated solutions across administrations, territories or sectors. In particular, projects should address actions that aim at removing administrative, regulatory, financial or organisational barriers that prevent the uptake or upscaling of solutions already validated through EU-funded actions at local, regional or national level.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
60%
Thematic Categories
- Education and training
- Environment and Climate Change
- Information Technology
- Justice - Security
- Public Administration
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
- Social Affairs & Human Rights
Eligibility for Participation
- Associations
- Central Government
- Educational Institutions
- International Organisations
- Legal Entities
- Legal Entities under Public Law
- Local Authorities
- NGOs
- Non Profit Organisations
- Private Bodies
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- Semi-governmental organisations
- Services Providers
- State-owned Enterprises
- Training Centres
Eligibility For Participation Notes
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 (list of participating countries)
- the coordinator must be established in an eligible country
Beneficiaries and affiliated entities must register in the Participant Register — before submitting the proposal — and will have to be validated by the Central Validation Service (REA Validation). For the validation, they will be requested to upload documents showing legal status and origin.
Other entities may participate in other consortium roles, such as associated partners, subcontractors, third parties giving in-kind contributions, etc (see section 13 of call document).
Indicative list of eligible entities:
- NGOs, lawyers, the judiciary, public administrations or other stakeholders
- Authorities and bodies with compliance assurance responsibilities such as local, regional, police and customs authorities, agencies and inspectorates, supreme public audit bodies, public prosecutors’ offices and the judiciary.
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
National Contact Point(s)
Department of Environment
Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment
www.lifecyclamen.com.cy
Persons to Contact
Marilena Papastavrou
Environment Officer, National Contact Point for Environment
Telephone: +357 22 408 926
Email: mpapastavrou@environment.moa.gov.cy
Chrystalla Papastavrou
Environment Officer, National Contact Point for Climate
Telephone: +357 22 408 962
Email: cpapastavrou@environment.moa.gov.cy