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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

Expected Outcome:

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

  • 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 document

Standard application form — call-specific application form is available in the Submission System

 

Mandatory Annexes to the application form

1.     Detailed budget table 

2.     Participant information

 

Optional Annexes:

§  Letters of support

§  Cofinancing declaration

§  Maps

§  Description of sites

§  Description of species and habitats

§  Other Annexes (for example: Lifecycle analysis, Business plans etc.)

 

FAQs in LIFE website

LIFE Reference Documents

Annotated Grant Agreement

LIFE General MGA v1.0

LIFE Work Programme 2021-2024

LIFE Regulation 2021/783

EU Financial Regulation 2018/1046

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

Last Changed: March 7, 2024

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

 

 

 

Last Changed: October 13, 2023

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

 

Last Changed: April 18, 2023
The submission session is now available for: LIFE-2023-SAP-CLIMA-CCM(LIFE-PJG), LIFE-2023-SAP-CLIMA-CCA(LIFE-PJG), LIFE-2023-SAP-CLIMA-GOV(LIFE-PJG)
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