Circular Economy, resources from Waste, Air, Water, Soil, Noise, Chemicals, Bauhaus
LIFE Project Grants
Basic Information
- Identifier
- LIFE-2022-SAP-ENV-ENVIRONMENT
- Programme
- Circular Economy and Quality of Life - Standard Action Projects (SAP)
- Programme Period
- 2021 - 2027
- Status
- Closed (31094503)
- Opening Date
- May 17, 2022
- Deadline
- October 4, 2022
- Deadline Model
- single-stage
- Budget
- €92,320,656
- Min Grant Amount
- –
- Max Grant Amount
- –
- Expected Number of Grants
- –
- Keywords
- LIFE-2022-SAP-ENV-ENVIRONMENTLIFE-2022-SAP-ENV
Description
Applicants are expected to define, calculate, explain and achieve the expected impacts as described in the Award criterion ‘Impact’ (see Call document section 2 and 9).
Objective:The aim is to facilitate the transition toward a sustainable, circular, toxic-free, energy-efficient/climate-resilient economy and toward a toxic-free environment as well as to protect, restore and improve the quality of the environment.
The specific objective is to cover one or more of the following topics as fully defined in section 2 of the Call document:
- Circular Economy and Waste
- Air
- Water
- Soil
- Noise
- Chemicals
- A new European Bauhaus
Please note that the assessment of the extent to which the project is in line with the specific priorities of the call (part of Award criterion 1) will be done exclusively on the basis of the topics identified and described under section ‘Compliance with LIFE programme objectives and call topic’ of the Standard application form. Please also note that a maximum of two sub-topics will be considered (e.g.: Air quality improvement and emission reduction of PM.... solutions and Sustainable road transport mobility….platforms.).
Scope:The present Call topic targets Standard Action Projects (SAP) aimed at achieving the objectives of the Circular Economy and Quality of Life sub-programme. SAP are defined in section 2 of the call document (Type of Action) while the general objectives of the sub-programme in section 1 (‘Circular Economy and Quality of Life’).
SAP focussing exclusively on environmental governance are excluded from this Call topic and covered by the related Call topic named LIFE-2022-SAP-ENV-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 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
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
- Other Annexes (for example: Lifecycle analysis, Business plans etc.)
Support & Resources
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
CALL UPDATE: FLASH EVALUATION RESULTS
EVALUATION results Call LIFE-2022-SAP-ENV
Call publication: 17.05.2022
Deadline: 04.10.2022
LIFE-2022-SAP-ENV-ENVIRONMENT:
Available budget: 92.320.656 EUR
Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 224
Number of inadmissible proposals: 2
Number of ineligible proposals: 0
Number of above-threshold proposals: 39
Total budget requested from above-threshold proposals: 96.990.136 EUR
LIFE-2022-SAP-ENV-GOV:
Available budget: 6 000 000 EUR
Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 15
Number of inadmissible/ineligible proposals: 1
Number of above-threshold proposals: 5
Total budget requested from above-threshold proposals: 6.035.893 € EUR
We recently informed the applicants about the evaluation results of their proposals.
On 4 October 2022 (call closure) 239 proposals were received split as follows:
LIFE-2022-SAP-ENV-ENVIRONMENT 224 proposals
LIFE-2022-SAP-ENV-GOV 15 proposals
The submission session is now available for: LIFE-2022-SAP-ENV-GOV(LIFE-PJG), LIFE-2022-SAP-ENV-ENVIRONMENT(LIFE-PJG).
We want to draw your attention to the possibility to get support from your National Contact Point (https://cinea.ec.europa.eu/programmes/life/history-life/life-contacts/european-national-contact-points_en). To facilitate such support, it would be beneficial to add your National Contact Point (NCP) under the “Participants” step of the application, by clicking on “Add contact”. Then, Under “Project role”, use the option “Contact person” and add your NCP’s data.