Operating grants Framework partnerships
LIFE Operating Grants Framework Partnerships
Basic Information
- Identifier
- LIFE-2024-NGO-OG-FPA
- Programme
- LIFE Framework Partnership Agreement
- Programme Period
- 2021 - 2027
- Status
- Closed (31094503)
- Opening Date
- April 18, 2024
- Deadline
- September 5, 2024
- Deadline Model
- single-stage
- Min Grant Amount
- –
- Max Grant Amount
- –
- Expected Number of Grants
- –
- Keywords
- LIFE-2024-NGO-OG-FPALIFE-2024-NGO-OG-FPA
Description
Framework Partnership Agreements for non-profit making entities under the LIFE programme aim to strengthen the participation of civil society in the EU policy dialogue, as well as to support implementation and enforcement of Union environmental and climate objectives, including clean energy transition, by the beneficiaries.
Objective:This call for proposals concerns LIFE Operating Grant Framework Partnership Agreements (FPA OG).
Applicants to the LIFE-2024-NGO-OG-FPA call for proposals MUST ALSO APPLY under the LIFE-2024-NGO-OG-SGA Call for proposals to be considered for an operating grant for FY2025.
Scope:Framework Partnership Agreements (FPAs) under the LIFE Programme are long-term cooperation instruments that serve as umbrella for regular or recurrent operating grants to non-profit making entities which are involved in the development, implementation and enforcement of EU legislation and policy and which are primarily active in the field of environment or climate action, including clean energy transition, in line with the objectives of the LIFE Programme. They are a prerequisite for being able to sign annual Specific Operating Grant Agreements (SGAs), but do not create any legitimate expectations or entitlement to get them.
Framework Partnership Agreements that will be concluded following the 2024 Call for Proposals for LIFE Operating Grant Framework Partnership Agreements will cover the following two financial years of beneficiary organisations (i.e. FY 2025 and FY 2026).
Framework Partnerships are always mono-beneficiary. Further details can be found in the call document.
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
- Statutes of the non-profit entity - mandatory
- Applicant’s activity report of previous year – if the applicant is a newly created entity that has less than one year of existence, it is acceptable that the activity report covers less than 12 months
- Participant information (mandatory template available in the Submission System)
- A list of the members of the executive board or administration (names and title/function within the applicant organisation)
Other relevant documents
Support & Resources
Consult the FAQs on the LIFE website
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
Evaluation results Call LIFE-2024-NGO-OG-FPA
Call publication: 18.04.2024
Deadline: 05.09.2024
Number of submitted proposals: 73
Number of inadmissible/ineligible proposals: 13
The evaluation process is on-going, notifications will be sent out early February 2025.