Topic updates

26 January 2026

Call LIFE-2025-PLP-NAT-ENV:

Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 24

Number of inadmissible proposals: 7

Number of ineligible proposals: 5

Number of above-threshold proposals: 9

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 11,241,055.38

Number of proposals retained for funding: 7

Number of proposals in the reserve list: 2

25 September 2025

On 23 September 2025, a total of 49 proposals were submitted in response to the call as follows:

LIFE-2025-PLP-NAT-ENV: 24 proposals

Projects on Legislative and Policy Priorities in the fields of Nature & Biodiversity and Circular Economy & Quality of Life

TOPIC ID: LIFE-2025-PLP-NAT-ENV

Type of grant: Call for proposals

General information

Programme:

Call: LIFE Projects for addressing ad hoc Legislative and Policy priorities (PLP) (LIFE-2025-PLP)

Type of action: LIFE-PJG LIFE Project Grants

Type of MGA: LIFE Action Grant Budget-Based [LIFE-AG]

Status: Open for submission

Deadline model: single-stage

Opening Date: 24 April 2025

Deadline dates: 23 September 2025 17:00 (Brussels time)

Topic description

Expected Impact:

Applicants are expected to define, qualify and quantify the expected impacts of their proposal in light of what is described in the call document (see Call document section 2). This will be assessed as described in the Award criterion ‘Impact’ (see Call document section 9).

Objective:

Based on article 11 of the LIFE Regulation 2021/783, the LIFE Multi Annual Work Programme 2025-2027, includes the possibility to finance each year a limited number of projects designed to support specific needs for the development and implementation of Union environment policy and legislation.

Once a year, in consultation with Member States, the Commission makes an inventory of the specific needs regarding the development and implementation of Union environmental or climate policy and legislation that require to be addressed during the following years and identifies among them the ones that could be addressed by specific projects.

Scope:

Point 4.1.4 of the LIFE 2025-2027 Multi Annual Work Programme indicates that under “Other Actions”, additional projects responding to the Union legislative and policy priorities could be determined on annual basis, following a consultation with Member States.

The list of specific priorities to be addressed in this call is provided below. The Section 2 of the Call document further spells out for each priority the specific needs to be addressed, the activities that can be funded, the expected impacts and any other requirement.

The lists of specific priorities are:

1. Strengthening foresters’ skills in biodiversity friendly forest management
2. Capacity building on results-based payment schemes for the restoration of biodiversity in agricultural landscapes and implementation of the Nature Restoration Regulation
3. Supporting local strategies for an efficient and balanced use of space towards sustainable, beautiful and inclusive neighbourhoods
4. Strengthening the fight against environmental crime in the EU and supporting the implementation of the new Environmental Crime Directive
5. Participation of consumer organisations and environmental NGOs in the implementation of the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR)
6. Circular Business Model Mainstreaming - Boosting the single market for sustainable products and services
7. Climate Proof Pollution Alert model : relevant for the Water Resilience Strategy and Zero Pollution geared to transboundary cooperation on water pollution incidents

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