Programme Category
Programme Name
Call
Summary
Project submission procedure will be organised in TWO STAGES:
14 July 2020: Deadline for submitting a concept note
October 2020: Notification to the applicants, shortlisted applicants invited to submit full proposal
February 2021: Deadline to submit full project proposals
LIFE Environment and Resource Efficiency aims specifically at contributing to the implementation, updating and development of European Union environmental policy and legislation, including the integration of the environment into other policies, thereby contributing to sustainable development. Furthermore, actions financed must have a European added value and be complementary to those actions that can be financed under other European Union funds during the period 2014-20.
Detailed Call Description
The priority area Environment and Resource Efficiency focuses on:
- developing, testing and demonstrating policy or management approaches, best practices and solutions to environmental challenges, and in support of resource efficiency related policy and legislation, including the Roadmap to a Resource Efficient Europe.
- improving the knowledge base for the development, implementation, assessment, monitoring and evaluation of Union environmental policy and legislation, and for the assessment and monitoring of the factors, pressures and responses that impact on the environment within and outside the Union.
According to the LIFE Regulation, LIFE Environment and Resource Efficiency projects must be demonstration or pilot projects, which are defined as follows:
- “pilot projects” means projects that apply a technique or method that has not been applied or tested before, or elsewhere, and that offer potential environmental or climate advantages compared to current best practice and that can subsequently be applied on a larger scale to similar situations;
- “demonstration projects” means projects that put into practice, test, evaluate and disseminate actions, methodologies or approaches that are new or unknown in the project’s specific context, such as geographical, ecological, socio-economic, and that could be applied elsewhere in similar circumstances;
Pilot and demonstration projects under the priority area Environment and Resource Efficiency must contain actions that lead to substantial and measurable direct effects on the environmental and/or climate action issue(s) targeted.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
55%
Thematic Categories
- Agriculture - Farming - Forestry
- Rural development
- Trade and Commerce
Eligibility for Participation
- Farmers, Agriculturalists
- Fishermen, Aquaculturists, Owners of Vessels
Eligibility For Participation Notes
NOTE: For UK-based applicants: Please be aware that following the entry into force of the EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement on 1 February 2020 and in particular Articles 127(6), 137and 138, the references to natural or legal persons residing or established in a Member State of the European Union are to be understood as including natural or legal persons residing or established in the United Kingdom. UK legal persons are therefore eligible to participate under this call.
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
National Contact Point(s)
Competent Authority
Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment
Department of Environment
CY – 1498 Nicosia
National contact point for sub-programme ENVIRONMENT
Ms. Marilena PAPASTAVROU
Environment Officer
Tel: +357 22408926
E-mail: mpapastavrou@environment.moa.gov.cy