Funding Programme

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

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Call overview

The sub-programme “Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation” will support the implementation of the European Green Deal by contributing to the objectives and targets set out in the European Climate Law, the goal for Europe’s economy and society to become climate-neutral by 2050, and the Union climate target to reduce net greenhouse gas emissions.

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Objectives

Climate change is having far-reaching effects ranging from unprecedented forest fires, heatwaves, droughts, floods, or other extreme events to slow-onset processes like desertification, biodiversity loss, ocean acidification or sea level rise. Projects under this priority area should help to:

• Ensure continuous progress in enhancing adaptive capacity, strengthening resilience and reducing vulnerability to climate change, as required by Article 5 of the European Climate Law.

• Achieve the long-term vision of the 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.

• Reduce the vulnerability to the risks described in the European Climate Risk Assessment.

• Address principles mentioned in the Commission’s Communication on managing climate risks.

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See more details in the call document

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Activities that can be funded

Activities that can be funded include activties that:

• Develop, demonstrate and promote innovative techniques, methods and approaches.

• Contribute to the knowledge base and to the application of best practice.

• Support the development, implementation, monitoring and enforcement of the EU legislation and policy, including by improving governance at all levels, in particular through enhancing capacities of public and private actors and the involvement of civil society.

• Catalyse the large-scale deployment of successful technical and policy related solutions for implementing the EU legislation and policy by replicating results, integrating related objectives into other policies and into public and private sector practices, mobilising investment and improving access to finance

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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

N/A

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Duration

Project duration: between 24 and 120 months indicatively.

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Budget

The estimated available call budget is EUR 28 000 000.

Maximum 60% funding rate.

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