Call: Information, awareness and dissemination projects- Climate Governance and Information

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Programme	LIFE
Acronym	LIFE
Type of Fund	Action programme
Description of programme "LIFE"	The LIFE programme is the EU’s funding instrument for the environment and climate action. The general objective of LIFE is to contribute to the implementation, updating and development of EU environmental and climate policy and legislation by co-financing projects with European added value. The LIFE Programme shall in particular have the following general objectives: to contribute to the shift towards a resource-efficient, lowcarbon and climate- resilient economy, to the protection and improvement of the quality of the environment and to halting and reversing biodiversity loss, including the support of the Natura 2000 network and tackling the degradation of ecosystems; to improve the development, implementation and enforcement of Union environmental and climate policy and legislation, and to act as a catalyst for, and promote, the integration and mainstreaming of environmental and climate objectives into other Union policies and public and private sector practice, including by increasing the public and private sector's capacity; to support better environmental and climate governance at all levels, including better involvement of civil society, NGOs and local actors; to support the implementation of the 7th Environment Action Programme.
Link	Link to Programme
Description of programme "Climate change governance and information"	Projects under the Climate Governance and Information Priority Area should promote actions contributing to objective of shifting towards a low carbon and resilient economy. In this context, the development of long term climate strategies and new policy measures, full implementation of climate policy and legislation as well as ensuring a higher uptake of climate friendly technologies is important. These aspects are inextricably linked to achieving, better governance, mainstreaming climate action in other policies as well as promoting knowledge, dissemination of information and stakeholder involvement. This year projects aiming to enhance climate governance and capacity-building are strongly encouraged to ensure a high impact, e.g. train the trainers' programmes. Pure awareness raising activities (like creating a webpage) are not encouraged. Projects could develop cooperation platforms and share best practices for more effective compliance, enforcement and mainstreaming, and generate support from the public and stakeholders for the Union's policy-making efforts
Call	Information, awareness and dissemination projects- Climate Governance and Information
Description of call "Information, awareness and dissemination projects- Climate Governance and Information"	"Information, awareness and dissemination projects" means projects aimed at supporting communication, dissemination of information and awareness raising in the fields of the sub-programmes for Environment and Climate Action.
Link	Link to Call
Thematic Focus	Education, Capacity Building, Climate, Sustainability, Environment & biodiversity, Natural ressources
Funding area	EU Member States
Origin of Applicant	EU Member States
Eligible applicants	Education and Training Centres, Federal State / Region / City / Municipality / Local Authority, Research Institution, Lobby Group / Professional Association / Trade Union, Small and Medium Sized Enterprises, SMEs (between 10 and 249 employees), Microenterprises (fewer than 10 employees), NGO / NPO, Start Up Company, University, Enterprise (more than 250 employees or not defined), Association, Public Services
Applicant details	Entities participating in the proposal may fall into three types of beneficiaries: (1) public bodies, (2) private commercial organisations and (3) private non-commercial organisations (including non-governmental organisations, NGOs).
Project Partner Details	Partners are not mandatory. Transnational Projects have priority though.
Recurring Call	Yes
Further info	There is no pre-defined project duration under the LIFE Programme. Usually projects last for 2 to 5 years.
Type of Funding	Grants
Financial details	EU co-financing rate: max. 55% There is no fixed minimum size for project budgets. While large ambitious projects (i.e. over 5 million € total costs) have been financed several times in the past, small projects (i.e. below 500 000 € total costs) have seldom succeeded due to the limited output and consequently the low added value.
Submission	Applicants must submit their proposals to the Contracting Authority via eProposal.
Contact Details	For detailed information on LIFE national contact points, please follow this link.