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Next cut-off
22 Sept '26
in 16 days
Call budget
€174M
across every grant here
Grants expected
,
not published for this call
Funding rate
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not published, read the conditions

What this call funds

Expected Impact:

Applicants are expected to define, calculate, explain and achieve ambitious and credible impacts in terms of conservation benefit, ensuring at the same time long term sustainability and replication (see sections 2 and 9 of the Call document).

Objective:

To contribute to the protection of nature and biodiversity by:

  • raising awareness of the benefits of nature conservation,
  • supporting compliance assurance, as well as public participation and access to justice (Aarhus Convention)
  • enabling actions for the replication and upscaling of proven solutions

Scope:

The present Call topic targets Standard Action Projects (SAP) aimed at achieving the objectives of the LIFE Nature and Biodiversity sub-programme by improving governance and information at all levels, as defined in sections 1 and 2 of the Call document.

This call topic focuses exclusively on governance and information projects; other projects in line with the objectives of the LIFE Nature and Biodiversity sub-programme but defined in the Call topic LIFE-2026-SAP-NAT-NATURE are excluded.

What applying costs you

ItemEstimateNote
Drafting effort3–4 weekssingle submission
Time to first payment6–9 monthscut-off → evaluation → grant agreement

These are Bemzu's estimates from the call's structure (the number of stages and whether a consortium is required) not figures published by the Commission. Only the co-financing share is read from the call itself.

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