Technical Assistance for Strategic Nature Project Preparation
Pays for the groundwork behind a future Strategic Nature Project that would implement a national restoration or biodiversity plan.
This topic sits under the LIFE programme's Technical Assistance for Preparation of SIPs/SNAPs call, alongside sibling topics for environmental preparation work (EUR 300,000) and climate preparation work (EUR 200,000). Applicants submit the LIFE TA PP standard application form through the Funding & Tenders Portal, with a detailed LIFE budget table as a mandatory annex; optional annexes include lett…
The Commission funds technical assistance to prepare a proposal for a Strategic Nature Project — built around a Prioritised Action Framework, a national restoration plan, or another national, regional or multiregional plan tied to EU nature and biodiversity law. It wants preparatory work at a large territorial scale, with all concerned stakeholders involved and a coordination mechanism sketched out for the wider funding the eventual plan will need.
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