LIFE Nature and Biodiversity — Standard Action Projects
Funds standard projects that protect, maintain and restore the EU's marine, freshwater and terrestrial natural capital by implementing and enforcing nature and biodiversity law.
This topic covers direct conservation work — projects focused purely on governance and information belong under the separate LIFE-2025-SAP-NAT-GOV topic instead. The topic carries an indicative EUR 153.4 million 2025 budget, far larger than its GOV companion topic, and applications go through the Portal with mandatory annexes for the detailed budget table, participant information, maps, and descri…
The Commission funds Standard Action Projects that support the development, implementation, monitoring and enforcement of EU nature and biodiversity legislation and policy, aimed at protecting, maintaining and restoring natural capital across marine, freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems. Applicants must show ambitious, credible conservation-benefit impacts with long-term sustainability and replication potential.
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