LIFE – Nature & Biodiversity – Standard Action Projects (SAP) – 2025

Objectives

• To aim smart and outcome-based implementation of EU nature and biodiversity legislation and strategy
• To improve the condition of wild flora, fauna, and habitats through area-based conservation/restoration (“Space for Nature”) or other relevant activities (“Safeguarding our species”)
• To cover behavioural change, awareness-raising, compliance assurance, and access to justice related to nature and biodiversity legislation

Priorities

• Priority 1: To conserve status/risk categories for species and habitats covered by EU legislation or red lists
• Priority 2: To protecte areas network, restore targets, restore degraded/carbon-rich ecosystems, improve forests, reversing pollinator decline, nature in agricultural/urban areas, and marine/freshwater restoration
• Priority 3: To address invasive alien species
• Priority 4: To improve awareness of nature conservation benefits, especially the Natura 2000 network

Among financed actions

• Area-based conservation/restoration measures and activities to improve species condition (e.g., infrastructure, awareness)
• Awareness-raising campaigns
• Promotion of good practices, training, establishing networks
• Development of strategies/tools, engaging citizens, using environmental law
• Develop/demonstrate innovative techniques
• Contribute to knowledge/best practices
• Activities supporting EU policy implementation, and catalysing solutions

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
• A consortium is not required. An application can be submitted by a single entity established in an eligible country

Additional information

• Initial duration of the action:  between 36 and 84 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: 156.500.000 euros
• Budget per topic:
  • LIFE-2025-SAP-NATNATURE – Nature and Biodiversity: 153.000.000 euros
  • LIFE-2025-SAP-NATGOV – Nature Governance and Information: 3.500.000 euros
• Amount of the grant:
  • LIFE-2025-SAP-NATNATURE – Nature and Biodiversity: between 2.000.000 euros and 13.000.000 euros
  • LIFE-2025-SAP-NATGOV – Nature Governance and Information: between 1.000.000 euros and 2.000.000 euros
• Funding rate: up to 60% of the total eligible costs. A higher rate of 75% is possible for projects exclusively targeting priority habitats/species as defined in the document