New Calls Available

The LIFE programme is the EU's funding instrument that supports projects for environmental protection, nature conservation, and climate policy. The total budget for the LIFE program 2021-2027 is €5.4 billion.

Currently, there are 32 open calls, divided into 4 areas:

Eligible projects must address a specific challenge identified in one of the above areas using an innovative approach. It is particularly advantageous if the project implements an innovative result from a previous LIFE project or a different EU program (e.g., Horizon 2020).

In multi-beneficiary grants, beneficiaries participate as a consortium (group of beneficiaries). They must choose a coordinator who will manage and coordinate the project and represent the consortium to the grant-awarding authority. In single-beneficiary grants, the sole beneficiary will automatically be the coordinator.

Available Calls:

Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Standard Action Projects (SAP) LIFE-2024-SAP-CLIMA

Objective: Reduce GHG emissions in any activity domain. Develop, demonstrate, and promote innovative techniques, methods, and approaches, i.e., new solutions compared to the state of the art at the Member States and sector levels, implemented at an operational scale and in conditions that allow achieving defined impacts. Activities should start at least at Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 5 and reach, at most, TRL 8-9.

Eligible Topics:

• Recovery, recycling, and valorization of substances that deplete the ozone layer and suitability of alternatives to fluorinated greenhouse gases, and respective recovery, valorization, and recycling.
• Actions supporting the transition to zero-emission mobility in road transport: specific infrastructures for zero-emission vehicles, including rapid and ultra-rapid charging points for light and heavy-duty vehicles; 700 bar hydrogen refueling installations, including green hydrogen production.
• Decarbonizing non-road transport modes, promoting intermodality and modal shift.
• Increasing the production and use of renewable energy and improving energy efficiency: projects contributing to the development of circular business cases and demonstrating sustainable and innovative biogas and biomethane production using waste and residues streams (i.e., Annex IX of Directive (EU) 2018/2001) to produce biogas and digestate or biochar for the markets.
• Actions reducing energy use and greenhouse gas emissions in industrial production and waste management.
• Development and application of soil and coastal management practices impacting emissions and carbon removal, including conserving and enhancing natural carbon sinks in soils and forests, and storing carbon in durable products.
• Development and implementation of industrial solutions for carbon removal, capture, use, and/or storage: projects capturing CO2 from the atmosphere or biogenic sources for safe and durable storage (e.g., enhanced weathering, biochar carbon removal, small modular bioCCS installations, etc.).

Incentive Rate: Maximum 60%

Eligible Expenses:

• Personnel costs
• Individuals under direct contract
• Subcontracting costs
• Procurement costs:
• Equipment
• Other goods, works, and services
• Other cost categories:
• Financial support to third parties
• Land purchase
• Indirect costs

Budget: EUR 28.5 M

Project Duration: 24 – 60 months (max. 120)

Period of application: 17/09/2024

For more information, consult: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/docs/2021-2027/life/wp-call/2021-2024/call-fiche_life-2024-sap-clima_en.pdf

Circular Economy and Quality of Life - Standard Action Projects (SAP) LIFE-2024-SAP-ENV

Objective: Facilitate the transition to a sustainable, circular, non-toxic, energy-efficient, and climate-resilient economy.

Eligible Topics:

• Circular economy and waste: separate collection and recycling of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE); selective collection and recycling of batteries and accumulators; dismantling, manufacturing, and recycling of end-of-life vehicles (ELV) and ships; selective separation and recycling of construction or demolition works; sorting and recycling of plastics; selective collection and recycling of bio-waste, including anaerobic digestion and composting; recovery of critical raw materials from waste; sorting and recycling of packaging.
• Air
• Water
• Soil
• Noise
• Chemicals
• New European Bauhaus (combining design, sustainability, accessibility, and affordability).

Incentive Rate: Maximum 60%

Eligible Expenses:

• Personnel costs
• Individuals under direct contract
• Subcontracting costs
• Procurement costs:
• Equipment
• Other goods, works, and services
• Other cost categories:
• Financial support to third parties
• Land purchase
• Indirect costs

Budget: EUR 73 M (of which EUR 8 M is allocated to the Bauhaus subtopic)

Project Duration: 24 – 120 months

Period of application: 19/09/2024

For more information, consult: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/docs/2021-2027/life/wp-call/2021-2024/call-fiche_life-2024-sap-env_en.pdf