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- Published: 16 April 2020
The European Commission has launched its 2020 call for project proposals under the LIFE programme.
This year, more than €450 million is earmarked for nature conservation, environmental protection and climate action projects.
What types of projects is funded?
LIFE funds projects under its environment and climate action sub-programmes, thereby helping implement the European Green Deal.
Most LIFE projects are so-called traditional projects that can be coordinated by any legal entity registered in the EU. These include public institutions, businesses and non-governmental organisations (NGOs). A lot of traditional projects show best-practices, run pilots, raise public awareness or demonstrate breakthroughs in environmental practices.
Applications are also being accepted for bigger so-called integrated projects. These projects run strategic EU plans on the environment and the climate and tend to have a regional, multi-regional, national or trans-national dimension.