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Climate Change Adaptation

LIFE Project Grants

Basic Information

Identifier
LIFE-2024-SAP-CLIMA-CCA
Programme
LIFE Subprogramme Climate Action
Programme Period
2021 - 2027
Status
Closed (31094503)
Opening Date
April 18, 2024
Deadline
September 17, 2024
Deadline Model
single-stage
Budget
€28,500,000
Min Grant Amount
Max Grant Amount
Expected Number of Grants
Keywords
LIFE-2024-SAP-CLIMA-CCALIFE-2024-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 European Climate Law.

Scope:

Areas of Intervention:

  • Support to the implementation of climate adaptation policies and the revision of national, regional or local climate adaptation strategies and plans;
  • Implementing state-of-the-art tools for climate risk assessments or selection of cost-effective adaptation measures for dealing with climate threats and solutions for adaptation;
  • Development and implementation of nature-based solutions for different types of areas (rural, urban and coastal);
  • Climate-proofing and resilience of infrastructure and buildings;
  • Adaptation solutions for agriculture and forestry;
  • Water management;
  • Health;
  • Preparedness for compound risks and cascading risks;
  • 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 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

§  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.

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: April 18, 2024
The submission session is now available for: LIFE-2024-SAP-CLIMA-CCA(LIFE-PJG), LIFE-2024-SAP-CLIMA-CCM(LIFE-PJG), LIFE-2024-SAP-CLIMA-GOV(LIFE-PJG)
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