Environment governance

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).

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:

• Activities in support of public administrations’ decision-making and voluntary approaches
• Environmental compliance assurance and access to justice
• Behavioral change and awareness-raising initiatives

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: “Activities in support of public administration (…) voluntary approaches” and “Behavioral change (…) initiatives”).).

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’).

This call topic focus exclusively on environmental governance projects, other projects as defined in the related Call topic named LIFE-2023-SAP-ENV-ENVIRONMENT as well as LIFE-2023-SAP-NAT-GOV are excluded.

The available budget for the call topic LIFE-2023-SAP-ENV-GOV is 7.000.000 EUR. The number of projects expected to be funded is ~7.