LIFE Programme

Almost EUR 100 million are available to support your project ideas for the clean energy transition under the LIFE Call for Proposals 2022. We support projects with a 95% co-funding rate, and you can submit your proposal on any of the 18 dedicated funding topics. Deadline is 16 November 2022!

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the LIFE Programme, the #LIFEis30 exhibition showcases powerful images from some of the most innovative, inspirational, and effective LIFE projects. Check it out!

Forests are home to 80% of the Earth's biodiversity. However, they are under severe threat due to out-of-control forest fires. Several LIFE projects are helping reduce forest fires' devastating impact on the environment and our lives.

A new report commissioned as part of the LIFE ETX project assesses different policy options for the decarbonisation of European industry.

The #LIFEis30 podcast series celebrates thirty years of nature protection, environmental and climate action projects under the LIFE Programme. Check out the first three episodes and stay tuned for the next ones!

LIFE DoppelPlus has helped people on lower incomes in Tirol, Austria become clean energy transition ambassadors. Learn how!

The team behind LIFE EGGSHELLENCE shows that eggshells can be used to make ceramic wall tiles.

The team behind LIFE ASTI designed a set of urban heat island (UHI) forecasting systems to help three Mediterranean cities cope when the heat is on.

LIFE-KEDROS improved the conservation status and resilience of cedar forests at risk from climate change on a Natura 2000 site in Cyprus.

The team behind Clean Sea LIFE reversed the accumulation of marine litter along Italian coasts by changing the attitudes and behaviour of citizens, tourist operators and authorities.

The team behind LIFE Peat Restore has revived around 5 300 hectares of drained and degraded peatlands in Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.

Register today to find out how our LIFE projects are fostering Urban Mobility solutions for Europe and its citizens.

The LIFE Programme will participate in ECO WAVE 2022, the leading business-to-business (B2B) trade fair on environmental technologies in Slovenia.

After two years as a fully virtual event, EUSEW is back on 26-30 September in a new hybrid format, with speakers and participants attending in Brussels and online.

The LIFE programme will hold a high-level event at the #EURegionsweek: Bringing green ideas to LIFE in EU regions & cities: looking back with an eye to the future.

Register now for this event taking place in Brussels next 18 October. Pioneering initiatives that encourage change at local level, such as sustainable plans and strategies for the energy transition, energy efficiency financing in the public and private sector and investments in home renovation, will be presented.