Funding Programme

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

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Call overview

This call aims to support a smart and outcome-based implementation of the EU nature and biodiversity legislation and the EU biodiversity strategy for 2030.

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Objectives

Under this topic, projects shall lead to a smart and outcome-based implementation of the EU nature and biodiversity legislation and the EU biodiversity strategy for 2030. Only wild flora and fauna and natural and semi-natural habitats may be targeted. They shall fall under at least one of the two following areas of intervention:

Intervention area: “Space for Nature” - Any project aimed at improving the condition of species or habitats through area based conservation or restoration.

Intervention area: “Safeguarding our species” - Any project aimed at improving the condition of species (or, in the case of invasive alien species, reducing their impact) through any relevant activities other than area based conservation or restoration.

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See more details in the call document.

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Activities that can be funded

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• Establishing a coherent network of protected areas.

• Implementing EU nature restoration targets for species and habitats.

• Restoring degraded and carbon-rich ecosystems and/or prevent and reduce the impact of natural disasters.

• Improving the health and resilience of managed forests.

• Reversing the decline of pollinators.

• Bringing nature back to agricultural land.

• Recreating functional ecosystems and bringing nature back in urban and peri-urban areas.

• Restoring the good environmental status of marine and freshwater ecosystems.

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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 36 and 84 months indicatively.

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Budget

The estimated available call budget is EUR 153 000 000.

Maximum 60% funding rate.

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