Eurofunding

LIFE – Technical support to clean energy transition plans and strategies in municipalities and regions – 2021

The LIFE Programme is the EU Programme for Environment and Climate Action.

2022-01-12

7 million euro

Objectives

To provide technical support to regional and local authorities and build their capacities to develop and monitor ambitious long-term clean energy transition plans/strategies for 2030 and/or 2050 in coherence with EU and national reporting frameworks, through a right mix of activities
To support regional and local authorities in gaining technical, legal and social skills and resources required to deliver holistic, integrated and inclusive energy planning based on stakeholders’ engagement and social innovations
To seek to institutionalise integrated energy planning in local and regional authorities and implement a cross-sectoral approach to plan the energy transition
To take into account the regulatory framework conditions, the social impact of plans and investigate new participatory policy models and planning instruments to involve and engage the civil society and a wider spectrum of stakeholders
To support the establishment of new forms of participative governance structures to involve multiple stakeholders and citizens in the planning and implementation of the clean energy transition
To put specific territorial focus on public authorities willing to establish innovative planning processes through local pilots and/or on geographical
areas, municipalities and regions that despite their significant level of ambition are still lagging behind

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Eligibility

Be a legal entity established in one of the EU Member States or a country associated to the LIFE programme;
The coordinator must be established in an eligible country