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Climate Change Mitigation
Funding Program
LIFE - sub-programme “Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation”
Call number
LIFE-2024-SAP-CLIMA-CCM
deadlines
Opening
18.04.2024
Deadline
17.09.2024 17:00
Funding rate
60%
Call budget
€ 28,500,000.00
Estimated EU contribution per project
between € 1,000,000.00 and € 5,000,000.00
Link to the call
Link to the submission
Call content
short description
Projects under the Climate Change Mitigation Priority Area should contribute to the socially just and sustainable transition towards a climate neutral economy by 2050 and to reaching the EU emission reduction target for 2030 to at least 55% compared with 1990 levels.
Call objectives
Union climate policy and legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions focuses in particular on:
- efforts by all sectors of society and economy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, including public bodies (national, regional and local authorities); private commercial entities; or non-commercial organisations (unions, civil society organisations, educational institutions, consumer groups), and
- sustainable renewable energy,
- energy efficiency,
- the EU Emissions Trading System,
- energy and greenhouse gas intensive industrial production,
- land use, agriculture and forestry,
- increase of carbon sequestration in ecosystems,
- zero and near-zero emission transport solutions and fuel/energy options,
- fluorinated greenhouse gases and ozone depleting substances,
- carbon capture and use, carbon capture and storage, and carbon removals
- greenhouse gas monitoring and reporting.
Areas of intervention:
- Recovery, recycle and reclamation of ozone-depleting substances in foams and suitability of alternatives to fluorinated greenhouse gases and their recovery, reclamation and recycling;
- Actions to support the shift to zero-emission mobility in road transport;
- Decarbonising non-road transport modes, fostering intermodality and modal shift;
- Increase the generation and use of renewable energy and improvement of energy efficiency (as far as not covered by specific calls for proposals under the Clean Energy Transition sub-programme);
- Actions which reduce energy use and greenhouse gas emissions in industrial production and waste management;
- Development and implementation of land and coastal management practices which have an impact on emissions and carbon removals, including the conservation and enhancement of natural carbon sinks in soils and forests and the storage of carbon in long-lasting products.
- Development and implementation of industrial solutions for carbon removal, carbon capture and use and/or storage.
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Expected effects and impacts
Applicants are expected to define, calculate, explain and achieve the expected impacts as described in the Award criterion ‘Impacts’.
All LIFE projects will have to report on their expected outputs and impacts taking into account the LIFE Key Performance indicators (KPIs). These KPIs will contribute to evaluating the impact of the LIFE project on an environmental but also socio-economic level (e.g. via actions impacting the local economy and population). Please review the indicators in Part C of the eGrant application and complete them with the estimated impact of the project. More detailed information will be requested during the project implementation time.
Eligibility Criteria
Regions / countries for funding
Moldova (Moldova), Iceland (Ísland), North Macedonia (Северна Македонија), Ukraine (Україна)
eligible entities
Education and training institution, International organization, Non-Profit Organisation (NPO) / Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Other, Private institution, incl. private company (private for profit), Public Body (national, regional and local; incl. EGTCs), Research Institution incl. University, Small and medium-sized enterprise (SME)
Mandatory partnership
No
Project Partnership
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 (associated countries) or countries which are in ongoing negotiations for an association agreement and where the agreement enters into force before grant signature (list of participating countries)
- the coordinator must be established in an eligible country
Entities from other countries (not listed above) are exceptionally eligible, if the granting authority considers their participation essential for the implementation of the action (see work programme).
Natural persons are NOT eligible (with the exception of self-employed persons, i.e. sole traders, where the company does not have legal personality separate from that of the natural person).
International organisations are eligible. The rules on eligible countries do not apply to them.
EU bodies (with the exception of the European Commission Joint Research Centre) can NOT be part of the consortium.
Entities which do not have legal personality under their national law may exceptionally participate, provided that their representatives have the capacity to undertake legal obligations on their behalf, and offer guarantees for the protection of the EU financial interests equivalent to that offered by legal persons.
Financial support to third parties is allowed in all topics of this Call for grants and prizes under the following conditions:
- the calls must be open, published widely and conform to EU standards concerning transparency, equal treatment, conflict of interest and confidentiality.
Additional information
Topics
Relevance for EU Macro-Region
EUSAIR - EU Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Region, EUSALP - EU Strategy for the Alpine Space, EUSBSR - EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region, EUSDR - EU Strategy for the Danube Region
UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SDGs)
project duration
2 to 5 years (max. 10 years)
Additional Information
Proposals must be submitted electronically via the Funding & Tenders Portal Electronic Submission System (accessible via the Topic page in the Search Funding & Tenders section. Paper submissions are NOT possible.
Project acronym — Your project acronym must include the word LIFE.
Proposals must be complete and contain all the requested information and all required annexes and supporting documents:
- Application Form Part A — contains administrative information about the participants (future coordinator, beneficiaries and affiliated entities) and the summarised budget for the project (to be filled in directly online)
- Application Form Part B — contains the technical description of the project (to be downloaded from the Portal Submission System, completed and then assembled and re-uploaded)
- Part C — contains additional project data and the project’s contribution to EU programme key performance indicators (not applicable at stage 1) (to be filled in directly online)
- Mandatory annexes and supporting documents (to be uploaded):
- detailed budget table
- participant information
- optional annexes ( relevant info about activities should be in the main text. Optional annexes are to be used only if necessary to support statements in Parts A-B-C):
- letters of support
- co-financing declarations
- Maps
- Description of sites
- other annexes (for example: Lifecycle analysis, Business plans etc.)
Proposals are limited to maximum 120 pages (Part B). Evaluators will not consider any additional pages.
Call documents
Call Document Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Standard Action Projects (SAP)Call Document Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Standard Action Projects (SAP)(1243kB)
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