Supporting the roll-out of high-quality heat pump installations

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Code: 33582 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2024-CET-HEATPUMPS | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 18/04/2024 | End submission calls: 19/09/2024

The aim of this topic is to strengthen the enabling framework for the accelerated roll-out of high-quality heat pumps, complementing existing legislative and financial incentives at the EU, national and local levels. In particular, the topic aims to accelerate the deployment of heat pumps in existing buildings through alternative business and delivery models as well as in industrial sectors through a closer collaboration between different industrial sectors and industrial heat pump technology providers.

Climate Change Adaptation

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Code: 33580 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2024-SAP-CLIMA-CCA | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 18/04/2024 | End submission calls: 17/09/2024

Projects under this strand should help to achieve the long-term vision of the new EU Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change that, in 2050, the EU will be a climate-resilient society which is fully adapted to the unavoidable impacts of climate change. Projects should help to reinforce adaptive capacity, strengthen resilience, and reduce vulnerability, in line with the Paris Agreement and the European Climate Law.

Climate Change Mitigation

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Code: 33578 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2024-SAP-CLIMA-CCM | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 18/04/2024 | End submission calls: 17/09/2024

Projects under the Climate Change Mitigation Priority Area should contribute to the socially just and sustainable transition towards a climate neutral economy by 2050 and to reaching the EU emission reduction target for 2030 to at least 55% compared with 1990 levels.

Alleviating household energy poverty in Europe

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Code: 33576 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2024-CET-ENERPOV | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 18/04/2024 | End submission calls: 19/09/2024

Efforts should focus on offering support to overcome barriers to the uptake of renovation measures in multi-apartment buildings requiring coordinated action amongst homeowners, as well as supporting relevant actors, including public authorities, in designing longer-term strategies and coordination frameworks to mitigate energy poverty at different governance levels, including dedicated financing schemes specifically addressing energy performance improvements for energy poor households. As obligated parties under energy efficiency obligation schemes have potentially at their disposal the necessary data and means to identify energy poverty and vulnerability among their customers, supporting the obligated parties is needed in order to spread such schemes across the EU.

Developing support mechanisms for Energy Communities

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Code: 33574 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2024-CET-ENERCOM | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 18/04/2024 | End submission calls: 19/09/2024

Energy communities can help citizens and local authorities invest in renewables and energy efficiency.
An increasing number of local and regional authorities wish to make sure that more citizens and local communities benefit from the energy transition and play an active role in it. Supporting energy communities can be a way to achieve that and local governments are uniquely well-placed to support their development by creating an enabling framework for communities and addressing their development hurdles.
Therefore, this topic aims to foster the collaboration between local/regional authorities and energy communities.

Project Development Assistance for sustainable energy investments

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Code: 33571 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2024-CET-PDA | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 18/04/2024 | End submission calls: 19/09/2024

Project Development Assistance (PDA) will support project promoters in preparing and launching investment pipelines of sustainable energy projects. Also it aims to support project developers across Europe to deliver a highly ambitious sustainable energy project pipeline. It offers technical assistance to public and private project developers to deliver energy efficiency and renewable energy investments of ambition and scale.

The call topic aims to build technical, economic and legal expertise of project promoters needed for the successful project development and implementation.

Facilitation structures for the renovation of public buildings

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Code: 33568 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2024-CET-RENOPUB | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 18/04/2024 | End submission calls: 19/09/2024

Proposals should establish and operate regional/national facilitation structures, for example one-stop-shops, to accelerate the renovation wave in the public sector (e.g. office buildings, social housing, schools, leisure facilities etc.) covering a larger territory and offering to public authorities a comprehensive, all-inclusive service from technical, financial to legal advice, procurement and quality assurance of works.

Actions should clearly focus on the ambitious energy renovation of existing public buildings (e.g. administrative buildings, hospitals, schools) to nZEB or ZEB standards, and should target legal entities operating under public law (e.g. public authorities, public bodies, social/public rental housing operators, etc.) as the main final beneficiaries of the services to be put in place.

Climate Governance and Information

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Code: 33566 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2024-SAP-CLIMA-GOV | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 18/04/2024 | End submission calls: 17/09/2024

LIFE Climate Change Governance and Information aims at supporting the development, implementation, monitoring and enforcement of the Union legislation and policy on climate change, contributing to climate change mitigation and/or adaptation. This includes improving governance through enhancing the capacities of public and private actors and the involvement of civil society.

LIFE Clean Energy Transition – Standard Action Project

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Code: 33564 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2024-CET-SAP | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 18/04/2024 | End submission calls: 19/09/2024

This topic aims to support actions from key commercial and non-commercial actors in the clean energy transition, involving in particular local and regional authorities, energy agencies, energy service companies (ESCOs), financial institutions and EU manufacturers of net-zero energy technologies.
Actions under this topic should contribute to the implementation of the EU’s energy efficiency and renewable energy policy and legislation and demonstrate their positive contribution to the overall clean and fair energy transition.

Supporting the clean energy transition of European businesses

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Code: 33562 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2024-CET-BUSINESS | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 18/04/2024 | End submission calls: 19/09/2024

The overall objective of this topic is to support the clean energy transition and decarbonisation of businesses by strengthening national ecosystems for energy management systems and energy audits as well as by fostering collaborative approaches between companies operating either in the same value chain or in physical proximity.

Synergies with relevant EU projects and initiatives such as the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) are encouraged.

BUILD UP Skills – Upskilling and reskilling interventions for building decarbonisation

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Code: 33560 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2024-CET-BUILDSKILLS | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 18/04/2024 | End submission calls: 19/09/2024

The first objective of the topic –Scope A, is to increase the number of skilled building professionals at all levels of the building design, operation and maintenance value chain. The focus is on the skills needed to enable the Clean Energy Transition, in particular the EU Renovation Wave, the EU Solar Energy Strategy, the Communication on Digitalising the Energy System – EU action plan, as well as the implementation of the provisions on skills as part of revised Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD), Energy Efficiency Directive (EED), and Renewable Energy Directive (RED).

The second objective of the topic – Scope B, is to create a thriving community of practitioners actively involved in upskilling activities for building professionals, which will support the large-scale roll-out of successful approaches across Europe.

Proposals should address only one of the two scopes below.

One-Stop-Shops – Integrated services for clean energy transition in buildings and businesses

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Code: 33556 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2024-CET-OSS | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 18/04/2024 | End submission calls: 19/09/2024

This topic aims at supporting the creation or replication of One-Stop-Shops, proposing integrated services for clean energy transition in buildings and businesses.

Proposals are expected to focus on one of the two scopes (A or B):

• Scope A: Integrated Home Renovation Services
• Scope B: Integrated services for private rental housing energy upgrade