LIFE Nature and Biodiversity — Standard Action Projects
Funds standard hands-on projects that protect, maintain and restore the EU's marine, freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems.
Despite sharing an identical headline figure with the sibling SAP-NAT-GOV topic under the same call, this Nature and Biodiversity topic carries its own separate EUR 173.5 million allocation, not a pot split between the two -- each topic identifier lists its own figure in the Portal's own funding table, the same pattern used across other LIFE and Horizon calls. A proposal has to do more than descri…
The Commission funds Standard Action Projects that support the development, implementation, monitoring and enforcement of EU nature and biodiversity law and policy, contributing to protecting, maintaining and restoring the EU's natural capital across marine, freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems. Projects focused purely on governance and information, rather than hands-on conservation, are excluded and belong under the separate SAP-NAT-GOV topic.
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