Funding Programme

LIFE is the EU’s funding programme dedicated to the environment and climate action.

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Call overview

This call focuses on increasing the uptake of building renovation measures, including cooling solutions, which can bring significant long-term benefits to energy poor households, and lead to lower energy bills and improved living conditions.

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Objectives

In recent years, European households have continued to spend an increasing share of income on energy, leading to higher rates of energy poverty and negatively affecting living conditions, well-being and health.

In this context, increasing the uptake of building renovation measures, including cooling solutions, can bring significant long-term benefits to energy poor households, and lead to lower energy bills and improved living conditions. Efforts should focus on offering support to overcome barriers to the uptake of renovation measures in residential multi-apartment buildings requiring coordinated action amongst homeowners and tenants, as well as supporting relevant actors, including public authorities, in designing longer-term strategies and coordination frameworks to mitigate energy poverty at different governance levels, including dedicated financing schemes specifically addressing energy performance improvements for energy poor households.

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See more details in the call document

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Activities that can be funded

• Actions should contribute to actively alleviating energy poverty and build on the tools, indicators and resources of existing initiatives, such as the Energy Poverty Advisory Hub.

• Policy and coordination support to public authorities and stakeholders.

• Setting up long-term, cross-sectoral coordination structures to tackle energy poverty.

• Delivering tailored policy support to national authorities on the implementation of relevant provisions of the EED (recast).

• Support for residential multi-apartment building renovation.

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See more details in the call document.

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Eligibility

In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:

+ be legal entities (public or private bodies)

+ be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:

• EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs))

• non-EU countries: listed EEA countries and countries associated to the LIFE Programme (list of participating countries)

+ the coordinator must be established in an eligible country

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Consortium composition

Proposals must be submitted by at least 3 applicants (beneficiaries; not affiliated entities) from 3 different eligible countries.

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Duration

The project starting date and duration will be fixed in the Grant Agreement.

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Budget

The estimated available call budget is EUR 6 000 000.

Maximum 95% funding rate.

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