LIFE – Circular Economy and Quality of Life – Standard Action Projects (SAP) – 2024

Objectives

• To facilitate the transition toward a sustainable, circular, toxic-free, energy-efficient/climate-resilient economy and toward a toxic-free environment
• To protect, restore and improve the quality of the environment

Priorities

• LIFE-2024-SAP-ENV-ENVIRONMENT: To adress one or more of the following topics: Circular Economy and Waste, Air, Water, Soil, Noise, Chemicals, A new European Bauhaus
• LIFE-2024-SAP-ENV-GOV: To adress one or more of the following topics: Activities in support of public administrations’ decision-making and voluntary approaches, Environmental compliance assurance and access to justice, Behavioral change and awareness-raising initiatives

Eligibility

• Be a legal person
• Be a public or private entity
• Be established in one of the eligible countries:
  • EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories)
  • Non-EU states: listed EEA countries and countries associated to the LIFE programme (Click here)
• The coordinator must be established in an eligible country

Additional information

• Initial duration of the action: between 24 and 120 months
• Contact: CINEA-LIFE-ENQUIRIES@ec.europa.eu

Useful

• Guidelines: Click here
• Other call documents: Click here
• Executive Agency website: Click here
• More information: Click here

• Total budget of the call: 79.5 million euro
• Total budget of the topic:
  • LIFE-2024-SAP-ENV-ENVIRONMENT: 73 million euro
  • LIFE-2024-SAP-ENV-GOV: 6.5 million euro
• Amount of the grant:
  • LIFE-2024-SAP-ENV-ENVIRONMENT: between 2 million and 7 million euro
  • LIFE-2024-SAP-ENV-GOV: between 0.7 million and 2 million euro
• Funding rate: up to 60% of the total eligible costs