EU-LIFE PROGRAMME - 2014-2020

Instrument/Program level: 
European
Name of the instrument/Program: 
LIFE PROGRAMME
Instrument/Program eligible areas: 
BELGIUM
CZECH REPUBLIC
DANMARK
GERMANY
EESTI
IRELAND
SPAIN
FRANCE
CROATIA
ITALY
LATVIA
LIECHTENSTEIN
LITHUANIA
LUXEMBOURG
HUNGARY
MALTA
NETHERLANDS
AUSTRIA
POLAND
PORTUGAL
ROMANIA
SWITZERLAND
SLOVENIA
SLOVAKIA
FINLAND
SWEDEN
UNITED KINGDOM
GREECE
CYPRUS
BULGARIA
Managing authority: 

DG ENV - Directorate-General for the Environment - D.4. LIFE Programme

Objectives: 

a.To contribute to the shift towards a resource-efficient, low- carbon 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;

b. 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;

c. To support better environmental and climate governance at all levels, including better involvement of civil society, NGOs and local actors;

d. To support the implementation of the 7th Environment Action Programme.

Eligible thematics in line with ERC sectors: 
Earth System Science
Cultures and Cultural Production
Environment, Space and Population
Eligible thematics in line with S3: 
Climate Change Mitigation
Environmental Governance & Information
Environmental technologies, renewable energies & resource efficiency
Nature & Biodiversity
Renewable energies & resource efficiency
Action typologies: 
Supporting the internationalisation through sharing know-how and cross-sectoral collaborations
Exchange of experience (e.g. seminars, studies and publications)
Promote joint research and innovation activities related to thematic areas
Best-practice, demonstration, pilot or information, awareness and dissemination projects
Development of pilot programs & projects
Joining pilot initiatives
Beneficiaries: 
Local public authority
Regional public authority
National public authority
Sectorial agency
Infrastructure and (public) service provider
Interest groups including NGOs
Higher education and research
Education/training centre and school
Large enterprise, enterprise excluding SME
SME
EGTC
Status of the eligible institutions: 
Public
Private
Public equivalent body
Program contribution maximum: 
55%
Program Budget: 
3 456 655 000,00 €
Project budget minimum: 
500 000,00 €
Project duration minimum: 
24 months