Technical Assistance – Replication – Nature & Biodiversity and Circular Economy & Quality of Life
Summary
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. After 22 years, €3.4 billion and 4.170 projects, the LIFE Programme continues to finance actions for the environment and climate action.
Programme Name
Programme Description
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. After 22 years, €3.4 billion and 4.170 projects, the LIFE Programme continues to finance actions for the environment and climate action.
Call
Detailed Call Description
LIFE TA-R projects can co-finance the activities necessary:
- to enable and support the up-scaling and/or replication of the results from other projects funded by the LIFE Programme or by other Union programmes, and/or
- to facilitate the access of an operation to other financial instruments for the purpose of upscaling the results of a previous project which contribute to the objectives of the LIFE programme.
The ultimate aim shall be to concretely and substantially multiply the impacts of previous projects’ solutions by mobilising a wider uptake or application.
As a general principle, all activities included in the TA-R project must be new and additional to the work undertaken or launched by the applicant prior to the submission of the proposal.
In general, and amongst others, the activities should be clearly related to the objective(s) of the TA-R project and should be completed within the duration of the TAR project.
Activities shall include one or a combination of the following:
- Assistance to substantially scale up and/or replicate under different conditions the results of successful projects (in eligible countries). The proposal should not address the scale up and/or replication itself, but rather focus on the steps leading towards and enabling a successful scale up and/or replication;
- Assistance to the removal of local/regional/national legislative or regulatory barriers that prevent the replication or the upscaling of finalised projects’ results;
- Assistance to the removal of technical barriers that were not foreseen but emerged during a preceding project and which could not be solved during its duration despite their high relevance to the success and sustainability of the project’s results. Such action should pave the way for a significant scale up and/or replication of project results, during the TA-R project or at a later time;
- Facilitation of access to other EU or non-EU financial instruments (i.e. preparing and submitting applications) and leverage additional funding in line with the LIFE objectives (i.e. by incorporating schemes and measures developed or piloted by LIFE projects into other funding streams);
Activities should not be focused on research and should not include statutory responsibilities of the competent authority.
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
60%
The maximum EU contribution is €1.000.000 per project.
Eligibility For Participation Notes
Applications will only be considered eligible if their content corresponds wholly (or at least in part) to the topic description for which they are submitted.
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
Consortium composition TA-R projects are designed to assist with the upscaling and/or replication of results funded under previous LIFE projects or of other Union programmes, as long as they contribute to the objectives of the LIFE programme.
The former project beneficiary should in principle be the coordinator of the TA-R project.
In well justified cases it may participate in a role other than as coordinator, but it should in any case be part of the TA R project consortium.
Eligible activities are the ones set out in section 2 above.
The following activities are not considered as eligible for funding under this call:
- research;
- statutory responsibilities of the competent authority;
- activities outside the duration of the project;
- activities which are not clearly related to the objective(s) of the project.
Projects must comply with EU policy interests and priorities (such as environment, social, security, industrial and trade policy, etc.).
Programme Category
EU Competitive ProgrammesTotal Budget
€6.500.000Thematic Categories
- Environment and Climate Change
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- Associations
- International Organisations
- Legal Entities
- Local Authorities
- NGOs
- Non Profit Organisations
- Other Beneficiaries
- Private Bodies
- State-owned Enterprises
Call Opening Date
18/04/2024Call Closing Date
18/09/2024National Contact Point(s)
Department of Environment
Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment
www.lifecyclamen.com.cy
Persons to Contact
Marilena Papastavrou
Environment Officer, National Contact Point for Environment
Telephone: +357 22 408 926
Email: mpapastavrou@environment.moa.gov.cy
Chrystalla Papastavrou
Environment Officer, National Contact Point for Climate
Telephone: +357 22 408 962
Email: cpapastavrou@environment.moa.gov.cy