Nature & Biodiversity and Circular Economy & Quality of Life
Applicants are expected to define, calculate, explain and achieve the expected impacts as described in the Award criterion ?Impact? (see Call document section 2 and 9).
Objective:Based on article 11 of the LIFE Regulation 2021/783, the LIFE Multi Annual Work Programme 2021-2024, includes the possibility to finance each year a limited number of projects designed to support specific needs for the development and implementation of Union environment policy and legislation. Once a year, in consultation with Member States, the Commission makes an inventory of the specific needs regarding the development and implementation of Union environmental or climate policy and legislation that need to be addressed during the following years and identifies among them the needs that could be addressed by specific projects.
Scope:Nature and Biodiversity
- Facilitating knowledge sharing & good implementation practices for implementation of the EU Regulation on Deforestation-free products
- An EU system to assess management effectiveness of Natura 2000 sites and other protected areas (EU-PAME)
- Training for a better management of Natura 2000 sites and restoration of nature
- Overcoming the coordination barriers to implement nature-based water retention options
- Developing guidance on crop-specific rules for pest management
Circular Economy and Quality of Life
- Designing closed loop recycling cycles for tyres for mitigating the impacts of the restriction for the use of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in rubber in-fill materials
- Validating New Approach Test Methods for replacing animals in testing and science
- Promoting and monitoring the Safe and Sustainable by Design framework uptake
- Implementation of the Mediterranean Emission Control Areas for sulphur oxides and to support a similar process starting in the Atlantic