Climate Governance and Information
LIFE Project Grants
Basic Information
- Identifier
- LIFE-2025-SAP-CLIMA-GOV
- Programme
- LIFE Climate Action - Standard Action Projects (SAP)
- Programme Period
- 2021 - 2027
- Status
- Closed (31094503)
- Opening Date
- April 24, 2025
- Deadline
- September 23, 2025
- Deadline Model
- single-stage
- Budget
- €28,000,000
- Min Grant Amount
- –
- Max Grant Amount
- –
- Expected Number of Grants
- –
- Keywords
- LIFE-2025-SAP-CLIMA-GOVLIFE-2025-SAP-CLIMA
Description
Efficient delivery of the quantified objectives by the end of the project.
Objective:LIFE Climate Change Governance and Information aims at supporting the development, implementation, monitoring and enforcement of the Union legislation and policy on climate change, contributing to climate change mitigation and/or adaptation. This includes improving governance through enhancing the capacities of public and private actors and the involvement of civil society.
Scope:Areas of Intervention:
- Raising awareness, incentivising behavioural change and supporting the activities of the European Climate Pact;
- Green skills & capacity building to implement climate mitigation and adaptation policies;
- Building capacity, raising awareness among end-users and the equipment distribution chain of fluorinated greenhouse gases;
- Support to the development, update and implementation of national, regional or local climate and energy strategies and plans;
- Activities linked to the implementation of Sustainable Finance actions;
- Greenhouse gas monitoring and reporting;
- Development of geographically-explicit inventories for the LULUCF sector, creation of carbon removal registries and certification schemes and organisation of capacity building activities and advisory services;
- Knowledge sharing and capacity building on the EU Emissions Trading System;
- Climate policy monitoring, assessment and ex-post evaluation.
Eligibility & Conditions
Conditions
1. Admissibility Conditions: Proposal page limit and layout
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 Eligible Conditions
described in section 6 of the call document.
4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion
described in section 7 of the call document.
5a. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes
described section 8 of the call document and the Online Manual.
5b. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds
described in section 9 of the call document.
5c. Evaluation and award: 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.
Call document and annexes:
Application form templates
Standard application form (LIFE) — the application form specific to this call is available in the Submission System
Participant information (LIFE)
Description of species and habitats (LIFE)
Model Grant Agreements (MGA)
Additional documents:
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 evaluation to reporting on your ongoing project. Valid for all 2021-2027 programmes.