Climate Change Adaptation

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Expected Outcome:
Efficient delivery of the quantified objectives by the end of the project.
Objective:
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.
Scope:
Areas of Intervention:

• Support to the implementation of climate adaptation policies and the revision of national, regional or local climate adaptation strategies and plans;
• Implementing state-of-the-art tools for climate risk assessments or selection of cost-effective adaptation measures for dealing with climate threats and solutions for adaptation;
• Development and implementation of nature-based solutions for different types of areas (rural, urban and coastal);
• Climate-proofing and resilience of infrastructure and buildings;
• Adaptation solutions for agriculture and forestry;
• Water management;
• Climate adaptation and health;
• Preparedness for compound risks and cascading risks;
• Financial instruments, innovative solutions and public private collaboration on insurance and loss data.

Status

Closed

Deadline

22 September 2026 (time not stated)

Opens

21 April 2026

Published

21 April 2026

Total budget

€28,000,000

Country

European Union (EU-wide)

Programme

Programme for the Environment and Climate Action (LIFE)

Funder

European Commission

Official page

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What applying involved

11 steps, all of them taken from this call's own documents.

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Understand the call

• Read the call on the source portal and download its documents
• Write the proposal against the award criteria and thresholds standard for this programme

  described in section 9 of the call document — conditions §5b

• Check the grant's legal and financial set-up standard for this programme

  described in section 10 of the call document . Call document and annexes: Call document Standard application form — the application form specific to this call is available in the Submission System Mandatory Annexes to the application form: Detailed budget table (LIFE) Participant information (LIFE) Optional Annexes: Letters of support Maps (LIFE) Description of sites (LIFE) Other Annexes (for example: Lifecycle analysis, Business plans etc. Additional documents: FAQs in LIFE … — conditions §6

• Check the amount you plan to request against the call's range

Check you are eligible

• Check every partner is established in an eligible country standard for this programme

  described in section 6 of the call document — conditions §2

• Meet the call's other eligibility conditions standard for this programme

  described in section 6 of the call document — conditions §3

• Be able to show financial and operational capacity standard for this programme

  described in section 7 of the call document — conditions §4

Prepare the documents

• Prepare Part B of the Application Form standard for this programme

  Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System. — conditions

• Complete the detailed budget table standard for this programme

Submit

• Check the submission and evaluation process

  described section 8 of the call document and the Online Manual — conditions §5a

• Submit before the closing date shown above

  The source states the closing day but no closing time — check the portal before the last day. — calls.deadline

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