Climate Change Adaptation
LIFE Project Grants
Basic Information
- Identifier
- LIFE-2023-SAP-CLIMA-CCA
- Programme
- LIFE Subprogramme Climate Action
- Programme Period
- 2021 - 2027
- Status
- Closed (31094503)
- Opening Date
- April 18, 2023
- Deadline
- September 21, 2023
- Deadline Model
- single-stage
- Budget
- €6,350,000
- Min Grant Amount
- –
- Max Grant Amount
- –
- Expected Number of Grants
- –
- Keywords
- LIFE-2023-SAP-CLIMA-CCALIFE-2023-SAP-CLIMA
Description
Efficient delivery of the quantified objectives by end of the project
Objective:Projects under this strand should help to achieve the long-term vision of the new EU Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change that, in 2050, the EU will be a climate-resilient society which is fully adapted to the unavoidable impacts of climate change. Projects should help to reinforce adaptive capacity, strengthen resilience, and reduce vulnerability, in line with the Paris Agreement and the proposed European Climate Law
Scope:Areas of intervention:
- Adaptation policy development, and adaptation strategies and plans
- State-of-the art tools and solutions for adaptation
- Nature-based solutions in the management of land, forests, coasts and marine areas
- Adapting cities and regions to climate change
- Climate-proofing and resilience of infrastructure and buildings
- Adaptation solutions for farmers, forest managers, Natura 2000 managers and other land managers
- Water management
- Preparedness for extreme weather events
- Financial instruments, innovative solutions and public-private collaboration on insurance and loss data
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
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 (for example: Lifecycle analysis, Business plans etc.)
Support & Resources
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). We want also to draw your attention on the possibility to get support from your NCP. To facilitate such support, it would be beneficial to add your 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.
- 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: EVALUATION RESULTS
Notification Letters with evaluation results were externalised to applicants on March 4, 2024
The results of the evaluation are as follows:
LIFE-2023-SAP-CLIMA-CCM
Number of proposals submitted: 62
Number of inadmissible proposals: 4
Number of above-threshold proposals: 23
Total budget requested: EUR 147,205,251
LIFE-2023-SAP-CLIMA-CCA
Number of proposals submitted: 55
Number of inadmissible proposals: 1
Number of above-threshold proposals: 11
Total budget requested: EUR 142,159,744
LIFE-2023-SAP-CLIMA-GOV
Number of proposals submitted: 16
Number of inadmissible proposals: 1
Number of above-threshold proposals: 6
Total budget requested: EUR 17,422,624
CALL UPDATE: SUBMISSION RESULTS
On 21 September 2023 (call closure) 133 proposals were received with the following Topic split:
- LIFE-2023-SAP-CLIMA-CCA: 55 proposals
- LIFE-2023-SAP-CLIMA-CCM: 62 proposals
- LIFE-2023-SAP-CLIMA-GOV: 16 proposals