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LIFE Programme

The LIFE programme is the EU's dedicated funding instrument for the environment and climate action.

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Open calls

open and forthcoming

Published budget

€775M

summed across topics

Grants expected

not published for this programme

Closing within 30 days

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What this programme is

The LIFE programme is the EU's dedicated funding instrument for the environment and climate action. It funds projects that put existing knowledge into practice, nature restoration, circular economy, climate adaptation, clean energy transition, rather than fundamental research, and it co-finances rather than pays in full, so an applicant is expected to bring a share of the budget.

Every one of the 31 calls open under it now expects a consortium, several organisations applying together. Where a funding rate is published the median is 95%, which means the rest of the budget has to come from somewhere else before you sign. 3 of them are two-stage: a short proposal first, and only shortlisted applicants write the full one.

12 calls use lump-sum funding, where you are paid for delivering work packages rather than for reporting costs. The next cut-off is 08 Sept 2026.

When it closes

2 months carry a cut-off. Each links to every call closing that month, across all programmes.

September 202628 cut-offs March 20273 cut-offs

Closing soonest

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The nine nearest cut-offs under this programme. Everything else is in the full list, where you can filter by deadline, applicant type and funding rate.

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Other funders in European Union

Programme	Open calls	Published budget	Soonest cut-off
Horizon Europe	482	€16B	09 Sept '26
European Defence Fund	37	€7.3B	29 Sept '26
EU External Action (EuropeAid)	23	,	24 Aug '26
Digital Europe Programme	23	€329M	24 Sept '26
Connecting Europe Facility	11	€2.7B	30 Sept '26
Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values	8	€163M	15 Sept '26
Research Fund for Coal and Steel	7	€65M	16 Sept '26
Erasmus+	5	€125K	17 Sept '26

Figures are computed from what LIFE Programme itself publishes. A call appears here only while a cut-off is still ahead of it.

About LIFE Programme

Who can apply to LIFE Programme calls?

It is set per call, not per programme. 35% of these calls want several organisations applying together; 0 accept a single applicant, and 20 do not say. Where the conditions state the requirement we quote the sentence they state it in; where they do not, we infer it from the type of action and mark it as inferred, and an inferred value never appears without that mark.

What does the budget figure mean?

It is the sum of what the funder published per call, in the funder's own currency, converted once at the European Central Bank rates this build holds. Calls that publish no budget contribute nothing rather than an estimate, so the total is a floor, not a guess.

How often does this page change?

The corpus is re-synced nightly and the site is rebuilt with it. Cut-offs and countdowns are recomputed at build time, so a call that closed since the last sync leaves this page rather than sitting here with a stale date.

Can I see only the calls I could win?

Yes, the fit check reads every call on this page against your organisation on the gates that decide admissibility, and it runs in your browser with no account. Calls that block you are shown with the condition that blocks them, because sometimes it is one you can change.

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