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LIFE 2024 Capacity Building
Funding Program
LIFE – Programme for the Environment and Climate Action
Call number
LIFE-2025-TA-CAP
deadlines
Opening
03.09.2024
Deadline
28.01.2025 17:00
Funding rate
95%
Call budget
€ 8,000,000.00
Estimated EU contribution per project
between € 350,000.00 and € 450,000.00
Link to the call
Link to the submission
Call content
short description
Activities financed under this call will improve the capacity of the Member State, in supporting the participation of possible applicants in the LIFE programme calls, thus improving the number and the quality of the submitted proposals. Each proposal should preferably include analysis of the participation from that country and the success rate in the last calls. The analysis should include also the potential and current type of organisations that benefit from the call and why some organisations are more applying then others.
Call objectives
Based on the needs assessment the applicants should identify the most effective activities addressing the participation and/or the ineffective participation rate of different types of applicants (public organisations, private entities and civil society organisations) for the different types of calls (standard action projects, coordinated and support actions, strategic integrated and strategic nature projects).
In line with article 11(4) of the LIFE Regulation (EU) 2021/783, technical assistance projects for capacity building aim at supporting public bodies responsible for the implementation of the LIFE programme in improving the participation and increasing the quality of submitted proposals from those countries. Proposals are meant to increase participation of various types of organisations in the LIFE calls for proposals, particularly for standard action projects, coordination and support actions, strategic integrated projects and strategic nature projects. This call represents an opportunity for Member States and countries associated to the LIFE Programme to receive EU funding for improving their capacity to support potential beneficiaries in the LIFE calls.
In line with this objective, only public bodies responsible for implementation of LIFE programme in an eligible Member State or associated country to the LIFE Programme may apply for a capacity-building project. Consortiums may include additional entities provided that their participation is justified by the project objectives and their role is clearly defined. In principle, the project should be coordinated by the public body responsible for implementation of LIFE. LIFE National Contact Points should be closely involved in the TA-CAP project.
The actions included in proposals for capacity-building projects must take place primarily within the territory of the Member State(s) or the associated country(-ies) to the LIFE Programme of the applicant(s).
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Expected effects and impacts
The expected impact is an increase of the participation and the quality of the proposals submitted under the LIFE calls by applicants from the Member State or associated country. This can cover all kinds of projects, with particular scope for standard action projects, coordination and support actions, strategic nature and strategic integrated projects. The technical assistance for capacity building aims at supporting the country in facilitating participation of relevant national entities to the EU programme. The impact in terms of higher participation or better scoring of proposals should, as far as possible, be estimated.
Expected results
Activities may include:
- Targeted and tailor-made communication campaigns on the LIFE Programme addressed, among others, to public national and local authorities responsible for the implementation of environmental and climate action policies and plans at all levels and across the entire national territory (e.g. municipalities, provinces, environment protection agencies, ecological operational units responsible for the enforcement of national environmental laws, public research institutes, academia), as well as to private sector stakeholders which are relevant for the programme.
- Trainings activities for the staff members of the National Contact Points and possible exchanges with more experienced staff members of National Contact Points of other countries.
- Tailor-made workshops on writing solid proposals; helping applicants to build (transnational) consortia; trainings on the use and monitoring of key performance indicators, etc.
- Screening of national environmental and climate actions priorities to support, through LIFE projects, the development, implementation, monitoring and enforcement of relevant Union legislations,
- Actions aimed at increasing the participation of those types of applicants that struggle to access LIFE funding in a given Member State or country associated to the LIFE Programme (e.g., public organisations, private entities, civil society organisations) as identified in the needs assessment,
- Actions aimed at increasing the use of certain types of LIFE projects. In particular, in the context of increasing use of SIPs and SNAPs in a given Member State or country associated to the LIFE Programme. Capacity building projects may include actions reinforcing the mainstreaming of environmental and climate actions into other sectors, enhancing synergies between LIFE and other EU funds, and supporting the use of cumulative financing from other Union programmes or the private sector,
- Procurement of external experts to address ad-hoc gaps, to provide advice and to support in the preparation of a proposal,
- Gap analysis and assessment of policy uptake of LIFE project results.
The Commission expects that the budget will be proportionate to the activities that will be implemented under each project to address the participation rate of the different types of applicants. Proposals can cover the 4 sub programmes of LIFE or focus only on those more relevant for the Member State or associated country to the LIFE Programme as resulting from the needs analysis.
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Eligibility Criteria
Regions / countries for funding
Moldova (Moldova), Iceland (Ísland), North Macedonia (Северна Македонија), Ukraine (Україна)
eligible entities
Education and training institution, 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: countries associated to the LIFE 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 not 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.
Countries currently negotiating association agreements — Beneficiaries from countries with ongoing negotiations (see above) may participate in the call and can sign grants if the negotiations are concluded before grant signature (with retroactive effect, if provided in the agreement).
other eligibility criteria
At least one participant must be a competent authority responsible for the implementation of the LIFE programme from one of the Member States or the countries associated to the LIFE programme.
The national authority should in principle participate in the consortium as coordinator of the TA-CAP project. In well justified cases it may participate not as coordinator, but it should in any case be part of the consortium.
Each eligible country could be awarded with only one TA-CAP project grant.
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
36 months
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 (to be filled in directly online)
- Mandatory annexes and supporting documents (to be uploaded):
- for single stage:
- detailed budget table (mandatory excel template available in the Submission System)
- activity reports of last year: not applicable
- list of previous projects: not applicable
- for single stage:
Proposals are limited to maximum 50 pages (Part B).
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