The LIFE Programme is the EU’s funding instrument for the environment and climate action. The first LIFE Call for Proposals under the new LIFE programme 2021-2027 comprises four sub-programmes: nature & biodiversity, circular economy and quality of life, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and the clean energy transition, with a budget of over 580€ million to fund new projects.

The call is open for projects from all EU Member States, Iceland and Norway until the 3rd of March 2022. With a budget of €1.5 billion, the Innovation Fund will finance breakthrough technologies for renewable energy, energy-intensive industries, energy storage, and carbon capture, use and storage.

The call is open for projects from all EU Member States, Iceland and Norway until the 3rd of March 2022. With a budget of €1.5 billion, the Innovation Fund will finance breakthrough technologies for renewable energy, energy-intensive industries, energy storage, and carbon capture, use and storage. An Info Day will be organised on 10 November.

The first Innovation Fund call for large-scale projects will provide grant funding of €1 billion to large-scale projects for clean technologies to help them overcome the risks linked to commercialisation and large-scale demonstration.

If you are taking action against climate change or working on an energy efficiency solution, don't miss your chance to apply for the LIFE programme. The deadline for submitting your full project proposal is 6 October 2020.

The European Commission - DG CLIMA will shortly publish a call for a project on "Modelling of greenhouse-gas emissions relevant to the Paris Agreement (informing successive NDCs in light of the Global Stocktake)". A Service Contract Notice has been published on 27 April 2020 and is available online. The invitation to tender is provisionally planned for mid-July. Reference number: 140784.