Nature Governance and Information

Call Information
Call Title
Nature Governance and Information
Call Reference
LIFE-2025-SAP-NAT-GOV
Funding Programme
Scope and expected outcomes

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 nature and biodiversity policy and legislation compliance assurance, and/or
  • supporting access to justice in nature and biodiversity policy and legislation-related matters.

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-2025-SAP-NAT-NATURE are excluded.

Conditions

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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 Eligible 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

Application form templates

Standard application form — the application form specific to this call is available in the Submission System

Detailed budget table (LIFE)

Participant information (LIFE)

Maps (LIFE) 

Description of sites (LIFE) 

Description of species and habitats (LIFE) 

Model Grant Agreements (MGA)

LIFE MGA 

Additional documents:

FAQs in LIFE website

LIFE Regulation 2021/783

EU Financial Regulation 2024/2509

EU Grants AGA — Annotated Model Grant Agreement

Funding & Tenders Portal Online Manual 

Funding & Tenders Portal Terms and Conditions 

Funding & Tenders Portal Privacy Statement

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