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Nature and Biodiversity

LIFE Project Grants

Basic Information

Identifier
LIFE-2023-SAP-NAT-NATURE
Programme
Nature & Biodiversity - Standard Action Projects (SAP)
Programme Period
2021 - 2027
Status
Closed (31094503)
Opening Date
April 18, 2023
Deadline
September 6, 2023
Deadline Model
single-stage
Budget
€3,400,000
Min Grant Amount
Max Grant Amount
Expected Number of Grants
Keywords
LIFE-2023-SAP-NAT-NATURELIFE-2023-SAP-NAT

Description

Expected Impact:

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).

Objective:

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-2023-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 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

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 8, 2024

CALL UPDATE: FLASH EVALUATION RESULTS

Call publication: 17.04.2023

Deadline: 06.09.2023

LIFE-2023-SAP-NAT-NATURE:

Available budget: 145.000.000 EUR

Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 108

Number of inadmissible and or ineligible proposals: 5

Number of above-threshold proposals: 59

Total budget requested by above-threshold proposals: 307 055 768.83 EUR 

LIFE-2023-SAP-NAT-GOV:

Available budget: 3 400 000 EUR

Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 5

Number of inadmissible and or ineligible proposals: 1

Number of above-threshold proposals: 3

Total budget requested by above-threshold proposals: 4 023 993.08 EUR

 

We recently informed the applicants about the evaluation results of their proposals.

Last Changed: October 13, 2023

Submitted proposals

LIFE-2023-SAP-NAT-NATURE: 103 proposals

LIFE-2023-SAP-NAT-GOV: 5 proposals

Last Changed: April 18, 2023

The budget for LIFE-2023-SAP-NAT-NATURE - Nature and Biodiversity has changed to €145.000.000.

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