LIFE-2026-SAP-ENV-GOV – Environment governance

Identifikátor témy: LIFE-2026-SAP-ENV-GOV Výzva: LIFE-2026-SAP-ENV – Circular Economy and Quality of Life - Standard Action Projects (SAP) Program: Programme for the Environment and Climate Action (LIFE) Časť programu: Environmental Governance and Information Typ akcie: LIFE-PJG LIFE Project Grants Typ zmluvy (MGA): LIFE Action Grant Budget-Based Stav: Closed Otvorenie: 21. 4. 2026 Termín(y) podania: 22. 9. 2026 Rozpočet: 6 500 000 €

Expected Impact:

Applicants are expected to define, calculate, explain and achieve the expected impacts as described in the Award criterion ‘Impact’ (see Call document section 2 and 9).

Objective:

The aim is to facilitate the transition toward a sustainable, circular, energy-efficient and climate-resilient economy, a toxic-free environment and at protecting, restoring and improving the quality of the environment in line with the European Green Deal and recent policy developments.

The specific objective is to cover one or more of the topics as fully defined in section 2 of the Call document (under the heading LIFE-2026-SAP-ENV-GOV).

Please note that the assessment of the extent to which the project is in line with the specific priorities of the call (part of Award criterion 1) will be done exclusively on the basis of the topics identified and described under section ‘Compliance with LIFE programme objectives and call topic’ of the Standard application form. Please also note that a maximum of two sub-topics shall be selected (e.g: “Activities in support of public administration (…) private sector” and “Behavioural change (…) initiatives”) and only those will be considered in the evaluation.

Scope:

The present Call topic targets Standard Action Projects (SAP) aimed at achieving the objectives of the Circular Economy and Quality of Life sub-programme. SAP are defined in section 2 of the call document (Type of Action) while the general objectives of the sub-programme in section 1 (‘Circular Economy and Quality of Life’).

This call topic focus exclusively on environmental governance projects, other projects as defined in the related Call topic named LIFE-2026-SAP-ENV-ENVIRONMENT as well as LIFE-2026-SAP-NAT-GOV are excluded.

Conditions

1. Admissibility conditions: Proposal page limit and layout

described in section 5 of the call document.

Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System.

2. Eligible countries

described in section 6 of the call document.

3. Other eligibility conditions

described in section 6 of the call document.

4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion

described in section 7 of the call document.

5a. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes

described section 8 of the call document and the Online Manual.

5b. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds

described in section 9 of the call document.

5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement

described in section 4 of the call document.

6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants

described in section 10 of the call document.

Call document and annexes:

Call document

Standard application form — (mandatory) call-specific application form is available in the Submission System

Mandatory Annexes to the application form:

- Detailed budget table (LIFE) - Participant information (LIFE)

Optional Annexes:

- Letters of support - Maps - Description of sites (LIFE) - Other Annexes (for example: Lifecycle analysis, Business plans etc.)

Additional documents:

FAQs in LIFE website

LIFE Reference Documents

LIFE General MGA v1.0

Annotated Grant Agreement

LIFE Regulation 2021/783

LIFE Multiannual Work Programme 2025-2027

EU Financial Regulation 2024/2509

Rules for Legal Entity Validation, LEAR Appointment and Financial Capacity Assessment

Funding & Tenders Portal Online Manual

Funding & Tenders Portal Terms and Conditions

Funding & Tenders Portal Privacy Statement

Aktuality k téme: - 2026-10-06: LIFE-2026-SAP-ENV-ENVIRONMENT 396 proposals LIFE-2026-SAP-ENV-GOV 52 proposals - 2026-04-21: The submission session is now available for: LIFE-2026-SAP-ENV-GOV, LIFE-2026-SAP-ENV-ENVIRONMENT