Nature and Biodiversity
LIFE Project Grants
Basic Information
- Identifier
- LIFE-2021-SAP-NAT-NATURE
- Programme
- Nature & Biodiversity - Standard Action Projects (SAP)
- Programme Period
- 2021 - 2027
- Status
- Closed (31094503)
- Opening Date
- July 13, 2021
- Deadline
- November 30, 2021
- Deadline Model
- single-stage
- Budget
- €122,516,306
- Min Grant Amount
- –
- Max Grant Amount
- –
- Expected Number of Grants
- –
- Keywords
- LIFE-2021-SAP-NAT-NATURELIFE-2021-SAP-NAT
Description
Applicants are expected to define, calculate, explain and achieve ambitious and credible impacts in terms of conservation benefit, ensuring at the same time long term sustainability and replication (see sections 2 and 9 of the Call document).
Objective:To contribute to European Union objectives for the protection, maintenance and restoration of the Union’s natural capital in its marine, freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems.
Scope:The present Call topic targets Standard Action Projects (SAP) aimed at achieving the objectives of the LIFE Nature and Biodiversity sub-programme by supporting the development, implementation, monitoring and enforcement of EU legislation and policy on nature and biodiversity, as defined in sections 1 and 2 of the Call document.
Projects focussing exclusively on governance are excluded from this Call topic and covered by the related Call topic LIFE-2021-SAP-NAT-GOV.
Eligibility & Conditions
Conditions
Conditions
1. Admissibility conditions: described in section 5 of the call document
Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System
2. Eligible countries: described in section 6 of of the call document
3. Other eligibility conditions: described in section 6 of the call document
4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion: described in section 7 of the call document
- Submission and evaluation processes: described in sections 8 and 11 of the call document and the Online Manual
- Award criteria, scoring and thresholds: described in section 9 of the call document
- Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement: described in section 4 of the call document
6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants: described in section 10 of the call document
Documents
Call documents:
Standard application form — call-specific application form is available in the Submission System
Mandatory Annexes to the application form:
Optional Annexes:
- Letters of support
- Cofinancing declaration
- Maps
- Description of sites
- Description of species and habitats
- Other Annexes
Support & Resources
For help related to this call, please contact:[email protected]
Get in touch with your LIFE National Contact Point (NCP)
Funding & Tenders Portal FAQ – Submission of proposals.
IT Helpdesk – Contact the IT helpdesk for questions such as forgotten passwords, access rights and roles, technical aspects of submission of proposals, etc.
Online Manual – Step-by-step online guide through the Portal processes from proposal preparation and submission to reporting on your on-going project. Valid for all 2021-2027 programmes.