Nature and Biodiversity
LIFE Project Grants
Basic Information
- Identifier
- LIFE-2022-PLP-NATURA
- Programme
- LIFE Projects for addressing ad hoc Legislative and Policy priorities (PLP)
- Programme Period
- 2021 - 2027
- Status
- Closed (31094503)
- Opening Date
- May 17, 2022
- Deadline
- September 7, 2022
- Deadline Model
- single-stage
- Budget
- €1,000,000
- Min Grant Amount
- –
- Max Grant Amount
- –
- Expected Number of Grants
- –
- Keywords
- LIFE-2022-PLP-NATURALIFE-2022-PLP
Description
Objectives
The Commission has identified some specific needs to be addressed through dedicated calls (the so-called Other Actions (OAs). They include, amongst others, specific projects addressing specific needs for the development and implementation of Union environmental or climate policy and legislation.
The 3 topics under this call for proposals concerns LIFE specific projects addressing ad hoc Legislative and Policy Priorities (PLP).
Based on article 11 of the LIFE Regulation 2021/783 ) the LIFE Multi Annual Work Programme 2021-2024 (COM(2021) 4997 final), includes the possibility to finance each year a limited number of specific projects designed to support specific needs for the development and implementation of Union environment policy and legislation.
For reference, point 4.1.4 of the Multi Annual Work Programme indicates that under the so called Other Actions, additional projects responding to the Union legislative and policy priorities could be determined on annual basis, following a consultation with Member States.
Once a year the Commission makes an inventory of the specific needs regarding the development and implementation of Union environmental or climate policy and legislation that need to be addressed during the following years and identifies among them the needs that could be addressed by specific projects.
Before launching this annual call for proposals, the Member States received a draft list of the identified specific needs that could be addressed by those projects and were asked to comment. Based on these comments, the final list was established.
Scope
Under this call, the proposals may be submitted only to address the following specific needs, based on the final list of specific projects established by the Member States.
The proposed specific project under the topic LIFE 2022-PLP-NATURA shall address one of the following specific needs identified by the Member States in the sub-programme Nature and Biodiversity.
Specific project:
- Improving the quantity and quality of bird-related data in Europe, to enhance their contribution to EU policy objectives under the EU Birds Directive and the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030.
We invite you to read the Call documentation carefully, for furthers details.
Impacts
It is expected that the projects awarded in the framework of the Call will deliver concrete and quantified impacts by the end of the project's implementation.
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 SEP 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 section 8 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
Main Call documents:
- The Call specific Application form is available in the SEP Submission Portal
Mandatory Annexes to the Application Form
Support & Resources
Get support
Please read carefully all provisions below before the preparation of your application.
Consult the FAQs in LIFE website
Get in touch with your National Contact Point (NCP)
Consult the 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.
Latest Updates
On 7 September 2022, 1 proposal was submitted under topic LIFE-2022-PLP-ENER.