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Call key data
Specific Operating Grant Agreements to support of non-profit organisations (SGA OG)
Funding Program
LIFE – Programme for the Environment and Climate Action
Call number
LIFE-2024-NGO-OG-SGA
deadlines
Opening
18.04.2024
Deadline
17.09.2024 17:00
Funding rate
70%
Call budget
€ 14,370,000.00
Link to the call
Link to the submission
Call content
short description
Operating grants provide general financial support to the successful organisations. They do not support a specific project (like action grants), but the annual operating budget (or part of it) of the organisation. Operating grants follow the same rules for the grant agreements as action grants, but do not differentiate between direct and indirect costs. Operating grants are always mono-beneficiary grants supporting the annual activities of an organisation.
Call objectives
This call for proposals concerns LIFE Specific Operating Grant Agreements (SGA OG) . LIFE Specific Operating Grant Agreements will only be concluded with organisations that have successfully signed a LIFE 2024 Operating Grant Framework Partnership Agreements (FPA OG).
Framework Partnership Agreements (FPAs) under the LIFE Programme are long-term cooperation instruments that serve as umbrella for regular or recurrent grants to non-profit making entities which are involved in the development, implementation and enforcement of EU legislation and policy and which are primarily active in the field of environment or climate action, including energy transition, in line with the objectives of the LIFE Programme. They are a prerequisite for being able to sign annual Specific Operating Grant Agreements (SGAs), but do not create any legitimate expectations or entitlement to get them.
Framework Partnership Agreements that will be concluded following the 2024 Call for Proposals for LIFE Operating Grant Framework Partnership Agreements will cover the following two financial years of beneficiary organisations (i.e. FY 2025 and FY 2026).
Specific Operating Grant Agreements (SGAs) will be awarded on an annual basis following an invitation to submit a proposal addressed to the framework partners and an evaluation process. SGA OG can only be signed if an FPA has been signed, and before the end date of that FPA.
In 2024, the call for LIFE Framework Partnership Agreements and the call for LIFE Specific Operating Grant Agreements addressed to framework partners are launched simultaneously. Applicants must first complete the Framework Partnership Agreement (FPA) application, and then use the FPA application reference number in their Specific Operating Grant Agreement application form.
Applicants to the LIFE-2024-NGO-OG-SGA call for proposals MUST ALSO APPLY to the LIFE-2024-NGO-OG-FPA call for proposals.
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Expected effects and impacts
The LIFE operating grants for non-profit making entities aim to strengthen the participation of civil society in the EU policy dialogue, as well as to support implementation and enforcement of Union environmental and climate objectives, including energy transition, by the beneficiaries. The present call for proposals targets operating grants aimed at achieving the objectives of the Environment, Nature, Climate and Clean Energy Transition LIFE sub-programmes. With the approval of the Fit-for-55 legislation, in particular in the area of the clean energy transition, the LIFE Framework Partnership Agreements will aim at supporting in particular NGOs engaging on implementation and monitoring of transposition in Member States.
In line with the recital 23 of the LIFE regulation, the LIFE operating grants for non-profit making entities aim at supporting a broad range of NGOs as well as networks of non-profit-making entities that pursue an aim which is of general Union interest, and that are primarily active in the area of the environment or climate action, by awarding, in a competitive and transparent manner, operating grants, in order to help such NGOs, networks and entities, to make effective contributions to Union policy, and to build and strengthen their capacity to become more efficient partners.
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Eligibility Criteria
Regions / countries for funding
Moldova (Moldova), Iceland (Ísland), North Macedonia (Северна Македонија), Ukraine (Україна)
eligible entities
International organization, Non-Profit Organisation (NPO) / Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Other
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)
- be non-governmental organisations which are:
- non-profit making entities
- independent, in particular from government, other public authorities, political parties and commercial interests
- primarily active in the areas of environment or climate action (including clean energy transition) and have an environmental/climate objective which is aimed at:
- the public good and/or
- sustainable development and/or
- the development, implementation and enforcement of EU environmental and/or climate policy and legislation
- active at EU level with a structure and activities covering at least three EU Member States or countries associated to the LIFE Programme
Applicants will have to demonstrate both a structure and activities covering at least three European Union Member States or countries associated to the LIFE Programme. To this end, partnerships, networks and memberships are considered if they are formally established as legal entities.
Partnerships, networks and memberships must be represented by a management board or any other administrative forum that is mandated by its members to represent them at EU level and is responsible for the activities of the network. So-called "loose co-operations" or temporary partnerships are not eligible under this call.
Memberships comprise exclusively legal entities, i.e. not natural persons. All members must be listed in the application. Nevertheless, members are not eligible for funding. Only the applicant non-profit entity, if selected, will
become the single beneficiary of the grant and can claim costs. Entities affiliated to the applicant are not eligible to receive funding under this Call for proposals.
Statutes and/or activity reports of memberships, partnerships or networks will serve as evidence for the structure and activities covering at least three EU countries.
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 years
Additional Information
The EU contribution to the specific operating grant will be defined by applying a maximum co-financing rate of 70% to the total eligible costs.
The maximum EU contribution to the operating grant amount per financial year will be EUR 700,000.
The amount of total eligible costs will be calculated based on actual personnel costs, adding a flat-rate of 50% over those actual costs, in order to simplify the application, implementation and reporting processes. The only actual costs that applicants must declare are personnel costs. The flat-rate of 50% personnel costs will cover all other costs that will be incurred by the beneficiary:
- Travel and subsistence
- Equipment and depreciation
- Subcontracting
- Rental
- Other direct cost
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
Proposals are limited to maximum 45 pages (Part B). Evaluators will not consider any additional pages.
Call documents
Call Document LIFE-2024-NGO-OG-SGACall Document LIFE-2024-NGO-OG-SGA(895kB)
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