Towards an effective implementation of key legislation in the field of sustainable energy

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Code: 36451 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2025-CET-POLICY | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 24/04/2025 | End submission calls: 23/09/2025

Under the European Green Deal and the REPowerEU Plan, the EU has put in place a whole set of new pieces of climate and energy legislation, including the revised Energy Efficiency Directive, Renewable Energy Directive and Energy Performance of Buildings Directive. The revisions make the policy framework for sustainable energy more stringent and ambitious. While the legislative framework offers a good amount of flexibility to Member States to shape the policy measures according to their needs and framework conditions, accurate design, monitoring, projecting and evaluation are essential elements of implementation.

This topic aims to support the implementation of the main pieces of legislation in the field of sustainable energy.

Boosting the clean energy transition in cities and regions

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Code: 36446 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2025-CET-LOCAL | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 24/04/2025 | End submission calls: 23/09/2025

The topic aims to support cities and regional authorities with the necessary capacity and skills to deliver and implement decarbonisation plans and strategies for the clean energy transition, which are critical for the industries, businesses and citizens in their territories.

Proposals are expected to focus on one of the two scopes established below.
The scope addressed should be clearly specified in the proposal.

• Scope A: Implementation of integrated decarbonisation plans
• Scope B: Development of methodologies, templates, blueprints and strategies for the preparation of local heating and cooling plans

Climate Governance and Information

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Code: 36444 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2025-SAP-CLIMA-GOV | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 24/04/2025 | End submission calls: 23/09/2025

LIFE Climate Change Governance and Information supports 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 privateactors and the involvement of civil society.

Activities for the sole purpose of raising the awareness of certain groups are deemed insufficient to achieve these objectives, and therefore should be complemented with concrete measures that facilitate a change in behaviour or practices. Projects which aim to develop tools or studies must include specific and concrete action to implement these tools and studies during the duration of the project.

ERC Advanced Grants

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Code: 36442 | Identifier Code: ERC-2025-ADG | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: European Research Council (ERC) | Start submission calls: 22/05/2025 | End submission calls: 28/08/2025

ERC Advanced Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they are already established research leaders with a recognised track record of research achievements. Principal Investigators must demonstrate the ground-breaking nature, ambition and feasibility of their research proposal.

Climate Change Adaptation

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Code: 36438 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2025-SAP-CLIMA-CCA | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 24/04/2025 | End submission calls: 23/09/2025

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.

European Excellence Initiative (EEI)

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Code: 36435 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-01-ACCESS-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Widening Participation and Spreading Excellence (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 08/05/2025 | End submission calls: 20/11/2025

The European Excellence Initiative in its widening dimension aims to raise excellence in science and in knowledge valorisation of Europe’s universities through cooperation. The action will engage with universities and empower them further to be actors of change in R&I. Cooperation of universities will be supported to create critical R&I mass and pursue specific objectives that contribute to accelerating key R&I areas of own choice with strategic relevance for the European Union.

Implementing co-funded action plans for connected regional innovation valleys in widening countries

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Code: 36432 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-WIDERA-2025-05-ACCESS-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Widening Participation and Spreading Excellence (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 14/05/2025 | End submission calls: 15/10/2025

The aim of this topic is to foster the creation of efficient, open, inclusive and interconnected European innovation ecosystems in line with the New European Innovation Agenda, notably in thematic/technological areas (including deep tech) that will be critical for EU value chains. It will also contribute to the twin green and digital transition and a resilient society, and to the net-zero objective, particularly in the areas of reducing reliance on the fossil fuels, increasing global food security, mastering the digital transformation (including cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence), improving healthcare, and achieving circularity.

Preparatory Actions – European Narratives Observatory to fight Disinformation – Detecting influence campaigns and boosting societal resilience

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Code: 36430 | Identifier Code: Call CNECT/2024/1917891 | Programme name: 2280 | Start submission calls: 30/04/2025 | End submission calls: 16/06/2025

The aim of this Call for Proposals is to further build on the results of successful EU projects in the field of narrative analysis and monitoring, notably on the Narratives Observatory Combatting Disinformation in Europe Systemically (NODES), the Predictive Research On Misinformation & Propagation Trajectories (PROMPT) project, as well as the Vera.AI and AI4Trust projects. To further advance the state of the art in the understanding of the impact of narratives on society, as well as the development of concrete methodologies, tools and approaches to monitor and engage with them, this call for proposals will fund two projects.

1. The first one will focus on the monitoring of narratives and the detection of malicious campaigns in the EU’s information space.
2. The second will focus on assessing the concrete impact that online disinformation has on citizens and propose and implement meaningful strategies to reduce societal polarisation.

Preparatory Action – Network of European fact-checkers to fight disinformation – Boosting the visibility of fact-checking content in Europe

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Code: 36426 | Identifier Code: Call CNECT/2024/1910855 | Programme name: 2280 | Start submission calls: 30/04/2025 | End submission calls: 16/06/2025

The general objective of this preparatory action is to increase the reach and impact of professional content produced by independent fact-checking organisations in the EU which helps citizens to critically assess the veracity of information they encounter online and offline, better understand the phenomenon of disinformation and the strategies behind it and develop media literacy skills to effectively identify and resist disinformation. The projects should focus in particular on reaching audiences and territories targeted by and exposed to disinformation, with a specific emphasis on pro-Kremlin disinformation and propaganda in order to increase societal resilience.

P2R Second Call for Regions and Communities

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Code: 36424 | Identifier Code: P2R | Programme name: 20613 | Start submission calls: 15/05/2025 | End submission calls: 20/08/2025

The Pathways2Resilience (P2R) project aims to increase the resilience of European regions and communities in the face of climate change. P2R is a five-year project implemented by a consortium of 14 organisations, coordinated by EIT Climate-KIC. As part of its work, P2R will support at least 100 regions/communities within EU Member States or Associated Countries that are within Europe’s biogeographical regions, over the course of two calls, to co-design visions of a climate resilient future and corresponding transformative adaptation pathways and innovation agendas that ensure long-term impact. Particular attention is needed for less developed regions/communities that are vulnerable to climate impacts and have low adaptive capacity. As such the selection process will prioritise regions/communities with heightened vulnerability.

P2R’s goal is to put together a diverse and inclusive portfolio of regions, ensuring a comprehensive validation of the Regional Resilience Journey (RRJ) and Adaptation Investment Cycle (AIC) frameworks.

Call for proposals for action grants to support transnational projects in the fields of e-Justice, victims’ rights and procedural rights

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Code: 36422 | Identifier Code: JUST-2025-JACC-EJUSTICE | Programme name: 2915 | Start submission calls: 06/05/2025 | End submission calls: 02/10/2025

This call aims to facilitate effective and non-discriminatory access to justice for all, and effective redress, including by electronic means (e-Justice), by promoting efficient civil, and criminal procedures, and by promoting and supporting the rights of all victims of crime as well as the procedural rights of suspects and accused persons in criminal proceedings.

Climate Change Mitigation

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Code: 36415 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2025-SAP-CLIMA-CCM | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 24/04/2025 | End submission calls: 23/09/2025

Projects under the Climate Change Mitigation Priority Area will support the implementation of the European Green Deal by contributing to the objectives and targets set out in the EU Climate Law and to the intermediate Union climate target to reduce net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% compared to 1990 levels by 2030.

Technical Assistance – Replication – Nature & Biodiversity and Circular Economy & Quality of Life

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Code: 36413 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2025-TA-R-NAT-ENV | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 24/04/2025 | End submission calls: 23/09/2025

The topics under this call for proposals concern LIFE Technical Assistance for Replication Projects (TA-R). TA-R projects should provide technical assistance to prepare for and/or facilitate the up-scaling and replication of results from other projects funded by the LIFE Programme, its predecessor programmes or other EU funding programmes.

LIFE-2025-TA-R — Technical Assistance for Replication:
The objectives of Technical Assistance – Replication (TA-R) projects are to facilitate and enable the upscaling or replication of results achieved by projects funded under the LIFE programme or, funded under another EU programme provided that these results fulfil the objectives of the LIFE programme. Only proposals responding to the priorities of the sub-programmes ‘Nature and Biodiversity’ and/or ‘Circular Economy and Quality of Life’ as described above will be eligible for this call.

Strategic Integrated Projects – Climate Action

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Code: 36410 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2025-STRAT-CLIMA-SIP-two-stage | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 24/04/2025 | End submission calls: 04/09/2025

Climate change adaptation SIPs should help achieve the objectives of Article 5 of the European Climate Law or the EU Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change, contributing to address the climate-risks identified in the Communication on Managing Climate Risks.

In order to do so, SIPs should support the implementation of national climate change adaptation strategies or plans, as required under the European Climate Law, or comparable regional, multi-regional or transnational strategies and plans. More specifically, they are expected to select and implement a clearly defined set of actions in the corresponding adaptation strategy or plan, which are to be financed by LIFE. Applicants should explain how and to what extent this set of actions will help to implement the overall strategy or plan.

Strategic Integrated Projects – Environment

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Code: 36405 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2025-STRAT-ENV-SIP-two-stage | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 24/04/2025 | End submission calls: 04/09/2025

The aim is to support the full implementation of the following plans and strategies:

• Circular Economy
• Waste
• Water
• Air
• Noise

SIPs (‘Strategic Integrated Projects’) should aim to fully implement the above strategies. This may not mean that the SIPs will cover all the actions foreseen in the strategy/plan or that the strategy/plan will be fully implemented during the lifetime of the SIPs. However, the SIPs should include strategic actions to catalyse a process and mobilise additional commitments and funding that will lead, in due course, to the full implementation of the plan or strategy.

SIPs should promote the coordination and mobilisation of other relevant EU, national or private funding sources for the implementation of complementary measures or actions outside the SIPs within the framework of the targeted plan or strategy, giving priority to EU funding.

Strategic Nature Projects

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Code: 36403 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2025-STRAT-NAT-SNAP-two-stage | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 24/04/2025 | End submission calls: 04/09/2025

SNaPs target the implementation of the following types of plans, strategies or action plans required by specific EU environmental legislation or policy:

• the Prioritised Action Frameworks (PAF) pursuant to Article 8 of Council Directive 92/43/EEC on the conservation of natural habitats and wild fauna and flora (the Habitats Directive) and;
• National restoration plans pursuant to Article 14 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1991 of the European Parliament and the Council on Nature Restoration and;
• other plans or strategies adopted at international, national, regional or multiregional level by nature and biodiversity authorities, that implement EU nature and/or biodiversity policy or legislation (e.g. EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030, Nature Restauration Regulation, EU Pollinators Initiative, Invasive Alien Species Regulation) which foresee specific and measurable actions, or targets, with a clear timeline and budget.

SNaPs should aim at the full implementation of the targeted plan/strategy/action plan and, together with the complementary measures needed to achieve full implementation, remove all remaining administrative, financial, structural and other barriers for its implementation.

They should support the plan/strategy/action plan on a large territorial scale, meaning regional, multi-regional, national or transnational.

They should typically be coordinated by the authority responsible for the implementation of the plan/strategy/action plan (see consortium composition requirements in section 6) and must involve the stakeholders that are instrumental for its successful implementation.

SNaPs should also include a mobilisation and coordination mechanism for additional funding sources for the complementary measures (EU, national, private, etc.).

The objective of a SNaP project is to support the achievement of EU nature and biodiversity objectives by implementing coherent programmes of action in Member States in order to mainstream those objectives and priorities into other policies and financing instruments.

Projects on Legislative and Policy Priorities (PLP) for the green transition in Urban spaces

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Code: 36400 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2025-PLP-URBAN | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 24/04/2025 | End submission calls: 23/09/2025

The proposed projects under the topic shall aim to address the following specific priority identified by the Member States: Accelerating the green transition in urban spaces by testing integrated innovative solutions addressing energy, nature and climate.

Projects on Legislative and Policy Priorities in the fields of Nature & Biodiversity and Circular Economy & Quality of Life

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Code: 36398 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2025-PLP-NAT-ENV | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 24/04/2025 | End submission calls: 23/09/2025

The proposed seven (7) specific priorities under this topic shall aim to address the following specific needs identified by the Member States in the sub-programme Circular Economy and Quality of Life and in the sub-programme Nature and Biodiversity.

Projects on Legislative and Policy Priorities in the field of Clean Energy Transition

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Code: 36395 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2025-PLP-ENER | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 24/04/2025 | End submission calls: 23/09/2025

The proposed projects under this topic shall aim to address the following specific needs identified by the Member States in the sub-programme ‘Clean Energy Transition‘: Real world energy consumption of energy-related products.

Nature and Biodiversity

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Code: 36393 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2025-SAP-NAT-NATURE | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 24/04/2025 | End submission calls: 23/09/2025

Under this topic, projects shall lead to a smart and outcome-based implementation of the EU nature and biodiversity legislation14 and the EU biodiversity strategy for 203015. Only wild flora and fauna and natural and semi-natural habitats may be targeted.
They shall fall under at least one of the two following areas of intervention:

• Intervention area: “Space for Nature”
  Any project aimed at improving the condition of species or habitats through areabased conservation or restoration measures falls within the eligible scope of the intervention area “Space for Nature”.
• Intervention area: “Safeguarding our species”
  Any project aimed at improving the condition of species (or, in the case of invasive alien species, reducing their impact) through any relevant activities other than area based conservation or restoration measures falls within the scope of the intervention area “Safeguarding our species”.