Nature and Biodiversity
LIFE Project Grants
Basic Information
- Identifier
- LIFE-2022-SAP-NAT-NATURE
- Programme
- Nature & Biodiversity - 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
- €132,000,000
- Min Grant Amount
- –
- Max Grant Amount
- –
- Expected Number of Grants
- –
- Keywords
- LIFE-2022-SAP-NAT-NATURELIFE-2022-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). |
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-2022-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 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
§ Maps
§ Description of species and habitats
§ Other Annexes
EU Financial Regulation 2018/1046
Support & Resources
Consult the FAQs in LIFE website
Get in touch with your National Conatct 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-NAT
Call publication: 17.05.2022
Deadline: 04.10.2022
LIFE-2022-SAP-NAT-NATURE:
Available budget: 132 739 347 EUR
Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 118
Number of inadmissible proposals: 2
Number of ineligible proposals: 1
Number of above-threshold proposals: 69
Total budget requested from above-threshold proposals: 302 412 454.70 EUR
LIFE-2022-SAP-NAT-GOV:
Available budget: 3 000 000 EUR
Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 4
Number of inadmissible/ineligible proposals: 0
Number of above-threshold proposals: 3
Total budget requested from above-threshold proposals: 5 783 739.94 € EUR
We recently informed the applicants about the evaluation results of their proposals.
On 4 October 2022, a total of 122 proposals were submitted in response to the following topics:
LIFE-2022-SAP-NAT-NATURE: 118 proposals
LIFE-2022-SAP-NAT-GOV: 4 proposals
The submission session is now available for: LIFE-2022-SAP-NAT-NATURE(LIFE-PJG), LIFE-2022-SAP-NAT-GOV(LIFE-PJG)
We want to draw your attention to the possibility to get support from your National Contact Point (European National Contact Points (europa.eu)). 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.