LIFE – Circular Economy and Quality of Life – Standard Action Projects (SAP) – 2025

Objectives

• To develop, demonstrate, or promote innovative techniques, methods, or approaches
• To achieve the objectives of EU environmental legislation and policy
• To support the development, implementation, monitoring, and enforcement of this legislation and policy
• To catalyse the large-scale deployment of successful solutions
• To replicate project results
• To integrate environmental objectives into other policies or practices
• To mobilise investments

Priorities

• LIFE-2025-SAP-ENV-GOV:
  • Circular Economy and Waste, Air, Water, Soil, Noise, Chemicals, New European Bauhaus
• LIFE-2025-SAP-ENV-GOV:
  • Support activities for public authorities’ decision-making and voluntary approaches
  • Environmental compliance assurance and access to justice
  • Behavioural change and awareness-raising initiatives

Among financed actions

• Develop/promote innovation
• Share knowledge/best practices
• Support EU policies/laws
• Scale up successful solutions
• Do theme-specific activities
• Include market-ready actions
• Support third parties (if eligible)

Eligibility

• Be a legal person
• Be a public or private entity
• Be established in one of the eligible countries:
  • EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories)
  • Non-EU states: listed EEA countries and countries associated to the LIFE Programme (Click here)
• A consortium is not required. An application can be submitted by a single entity established in an eligible country

Additional information

• Initial duration of the action: between 24 and 120 months
• Contact: CINEA-LIFE-ENQUIRIES@ec.europa.eu

Useful

• Guidelines: Click here
• Other call documents: Click here
• Executive Agency website: Click here
• More information: Click here

• Total budget of the call: 79.5 million euro
• Budget per topic:
  • LIFE-2024-SAP-ENV-ENVIRONMENT : 73 million euro (of which 8 million euro Bauhaus subtopic)
  • LIFE-2024-SAP-ENV-GOV : 6.5 million euro
• Amount of the grant:
  • LIFE-2024-SAP-ENV-ENVIRONMENT : between 2 and 10 million euros
  • LIFE-2024-SAP-ENV-GOV : between 700.000 euros and 2 million euros
• Funding rate: up to 60% of the total eligible costs