Projects on Legislative and Policy Priorities in the fields of Nature & Biodiversity and Circular Economy & Quality of Life
Closed
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Expected Impact:
Applicants are expected to define, qualify and quantify the expected impacts of their proposal in light of what is described in the call document (see Call document section 2). This will be assessed as described in the Award criterion ‘Impact’ (see Call document section 9).
Objective:
Based on article 11 of the LIFE Regulation 2021/783, the LIFE Multi Annual Work Programme 2025-2027, includes the possibility to finance each year a limited number of projects designed to support specific needs for the development and implementation of Union environment policy and legislation.
Once a year, in consultation with Member States, the Commission makes an inventory of the specific needs regarding the development and implementation of Union environmental or climate policy and legislation that require to be addressed during the following years and identifies among them the ones that could be addressed by specific projects.
Scope:
Point 4.1.4 of the LIFE 2025-2027 Multi Annual Work Programme indicates that under “Other Actions”, additional projects responding to the Union legislative and policy priorities could be determined on annual basis, following a consultation with Member States.
The list of specific priorities to be addressed in this call is provided below. The Section 2 of the Call document further spells out for each priority the specific needs to be addressed, the activities that can be funded, the expected impacts and any other requirement.
The lists of LIFE-2026-PLP-NAT-ENV specific priorities are:
• Digitising Environmental Impact Assessments and permitting procedures
• Preserving primary and old-growth forest in critical regions of Europe through mapping and awareness raising
• Development and implementation of analytical methodology to distinguish between virgin and recycled polymers at custom controls
• Support for reducing discharges into marine waters from exhaust gas cleaning systems (scrubbers) installed onboard ships
• Capacity-building of authorities in Montenegro and Moldova
- Status
- Closed
- Deadline
- (time not stated)
- Opens
- Published
- Total budget
- €13,500,000
- Country
- European Union (EU-wide)
- Programme
- Programme for the Environment and Climate Action (LIFE)
- Funder
- European Commission
- Official page
- Open at the source portal
What applying involved
11 steps, all of them taken from this call's own documents.
This call is closed. The steps below show what applying involved, and are kept for reference only.
Understand the call
- Read the call on the source portal and download its documents
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Write the proposal against the award criteria and thresholds
standard for this programme
described in section 9 of the call document — conditions §5b
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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 Application form templates Standard application form (LIFE TA CAP, TA-R, PLP and BEST) — 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 (no specific template) Other (not mandatory) annexes such as Maps (LIFE) and … — conditions §6
- Check the amount you plan to request against the call's range
Check you are eligible
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Check every partner is established in an eligible country
standard for this programme
described in section 6 of the call document — conditions §2
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Meet the call's other eligibility conditions
standard for this programme
described in section 6 of the call document — conditions §3
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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
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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
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Check the submission and evaluation process
described section 8 of the call document and the Online Manual — conditions §5a
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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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- Ecodesign and energy labelling compliance support facility for suppliers and retailers
- Climate Change Mitigation
- Climate Governance and Information
All calls under this programme
Similar opportunities
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- Circular Economy and Zero Pollution
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Where this came from
- Source document
- https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/data/topicDetails/life-2026-plp-nat-env.json
- Document fingerprint
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