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, energy-efficient and climate-resilient economy, a toxic-free environment and at protecting, restoring and improving the quality of the environment in line with the European Green Deal and recent policy developments.

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 for the public and the private sector
• Environmental compliance assurance and access to justice
• Behavioural 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 shall be selected (e.g: “Activities in support of public administration (…) private sector” and “Behavioural change (…) initiatives”) and only those will be considered in the evaluation.

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-2025-SAP-ENV-ENVIRONMENT as well as LIFE-2025-SAP-NAT-GOV are excluded.