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LIFE Ausschreibung 2021 Einführung in das EU-LIFE-Programm und Informationen zur diesjährigen Ausschreibung https://cinea.ec.europa.eu/life_en Bernd Decker, CINEA, 13.7.2021
Übersicht Teil 1 • Einführung zum LIFE Programm • Ausschreibung 2021 • Struktur • Formulare • Evaluierungsprozess Teil 2 • Prioritäten LIFE Umwelt und LIFE Klima
Programm für die Umwelt- und Klimapolitik • Das LIFE Programm trägt zu 100% den Zielen des europäischen Grünen Deals bei • LIFE ist das einzige EU Programm das ausschließlich Umwelt-, Natur- und Klimaprojekte finanziert • Für den Zeitraum 2021-2027 stehen 5,43 Mrd. € zur Verfügung • Das mehrjährige Arbeitsprogramm deckt den Zeitraum 2021-2024 ab
Das LIFE Programm 2021-2027
Projects
• Develop and demonstrate eco-
Nature and innovative techniques and
approaches
To contribute to the biodiversity • Help to implement and enforce
shift to a circular, plans and strategies, in compliance
energy-efficient, with EU legislation.
renewable energy • Promote best practices and
based- and climate Circular economy behavioral changes
resilient economy • Catalyse the large scale deployment
and quality of life of successful solutions
To protect and improve On legislation and policies
the quality of the Climate mitigation • Support their development,
monitoring and enforcement
environment and adaptation • Help Member States to improve
their implementation
To halt and reverse Project beneficiaries are:
biodiversity loss Clean energy 1/3 private enterprises
transition 1/3 NGOs and civil society organisations
1/3 public authorities
Subprogramme
Nature and Biodiversity
Contribution to: Typical actions
Projects supporting nature conservation and
restorationintheNatura2000network.
Halting and reversing biodiversity loss. Speciesprotection.
InvasiveAlienSpecies
Supporting Natura 2000 network and Prioritised Ecosystemrestorationandmuchmore…
Action Frameworks.
Mainstreaming nature and biodiversity Integrated implementation of PAF and Biodivesrity
Strategy
objectives into other policies and financing
programmes.
Financing of small scale grants, particularly in
Overseas Countries and Territories and Outermost
Regions
Subprogramme
Circular Economy and Quality of Life
Contribution to: Typical actions
Supporttopublicauthoritiesandotherstakeholders
toimplementEUenvironmentlegislation.
circular economy, noise, air, chemicals, green
and circular economy, industrial accidents, Support to technologies and solutions that are
marine and coastal management, noise, soil, ready to be implemented in close-to-market
conditions, at industrial or commercial scale, during
waste, water, and the urban environment.
theprojectduration.
Integrated projects beyond air, water, waste to
otherareassuchascirculareconomy.
Promoteupscaleandaccesstofinance.
Subprogramme
Climate Mitigation and Adaptation
Contribution to:
On climate change mitigation, projects that
contributesignificantlytotheimplementationof:
The transformation of the European Union • the 2030 energy and climate policy
into a climate-neutral and -resilient society, • the EU Member States’ National Energy and
especially through: Climate Plans
• European Union's mid-century and long-term
climate and energy strategy
Climate Change Mitigation
Climate Change Adaptation
Climate Change Governance Onclimatechangeadaptation:
• projects that support the implementation of the
newEUadaptationstrategyandrelatednational
implementation
Subprogramme Clean Energy Transition
predecessors: Intelligent Energy Europe continued under H2020- SC3 - market uptake
Building policy and
regulatory
framework
Engaging and Contribution to: Rolling-out
empowering creating market & technology, services
consumers regulatory enabling and business models
conditions in the EU
territories for the
energy transition
Mobilising local and Attracting private
regional investments finance
Type of activities: developing and spreading best practice, mobilising investments, improving skills,
removing market barriers, raising awareness, educating, empowering.
Clean Energy Transition: areas of intervention
Building a national, regional and local policy framework supporting
the clean energy transition
Accelerating technology roll-out, digitalisation, new services and
business models and enhancement of the related professional skills
on the market
Attracting private finance for sustainable energy
Supporting the development of local and regional investment
projects
Involving and empowering citizens in the clean energy transition
LIFE Projekttypen
GRANTS OTHER FORMS OF FUNDING
• Action grants: • Procurement (not in this call)
• Standard action projects (SAPs)
• Prizes (not in this call)
• Strategic Nature Projects (SNAPs)
• Blending (not in this call)
• Strategic Integrated Projects (SIPs)
• Technical Assistance (TA)
• Other actions (OA) – including
Coordination and Support Actions (CSAs)
• Operating grantsStandard action projects (SAPs) • Develop, demonstrate and promote innovative techniques, methods and approaches; • Contribute to the knowledge base and to the application of best practices; • Support to develop, implement, monitor and enforce relevant Union legislation and policy; improve governance at all levels, through enhancing capacities of public and private actors and the involvement of civil society; • Catalyse the large-scale deployment of successful technical and policy related solutions for implementing the relevant Union legislation and policy by replicating results, integrating related objectives into other policies and into public and private sector practices, mobilising investment and improving access to finance • Co-financing rate: 60% maximum (except 67% for priority and non-priority habitats and/or species and 75% for exclusively priority habitats and/or species); • Maximum project duration: 10 years.
What are SAPs
• ‘Innovative’ solutions:
• new when compared to the state of the art at Member State and sector level and
implemented at an operational scale allowing the achievement of ambitious and credible
impacts (as per the award criterion ’Impact)’
• ‘Best practice’ solutions:
• appropriate, cost-effective, state of the art (at Member State and sector level) and
implemented at an operational scale allowing the achievement of ambitious and credible
impacts (as per the award criterion ’Impact)’
• ‘Innovative’ is used strategically in the description of priority topicsStrategic Nature Projects (SNAPs)
• Focused on the implementation of
• the Prioritised Action Frameworks pursuant to the Habitats Directive
• other plans or strategies adopted at international, national, regional or multiregional level
by nature and biodiversity authorities
• Co-financing rate of 60% maximum
• Maximum project duration: 14 yearsStrategic Integrated Projects (SIPs)
• Circular Economy and Quality of Life: • Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation:
• Circular Economy: National or Regional • National Energy and Climate Plans (NECP)
Circular Economy Action Plans, • National Energy Efficiency Action Plans
Strategies, Roadmaps or similar (NEEAP)
• Waste: National and regional Waste • National or regional adaptation strategies or
Management Plans (WMPs) action plans;
• Water: River basin management plans • Urban or community-based action plans
(RBMPs) pioneering the transition to a climate neutral
and/or climate resilient society;
• Air: Air quality plans pursuant to the
Ambient Air Quality Directive or National • National, regional or industry-/sector-specific
Air Pollution Control Programmes greenhouse gas mitigation strategies or
(NAPCP) economy roadmaps contributing to climate
neutrality
Co-financing rate of 60% maximum
Maximum project duration: 14 yearsOther Action Grants
Coordination and Support Actions (CSAs)
• Standard type of grant for the LIFE-CET sub-programme
• Breaking market barriers to the clean energy transition through capacity building,
dissemination of information and knowledge, awareness raising
• Policy-driven, prescriptive call topics
• A tightly pre-defined scope of the proposal;
• Engagement of multiple stakeholders and large transnational consortiums;
• EU-widely validated results feeding into EU policy making;
• Co-financing rate of 95% maximum
• Usual duration of projects between 18 and 36 months
• No infrastructure costs, mainly labor costsOther Grants (2) • A Small Grant Facility on Biodiversity (BEST); small grants (max EUR 100,000) in the Outermost Regions and the Overseas Countries and Territories for biodiversity • Action grants benefitting the organisations mentioned in Annex I of the LIFE Regulation • Co-financing rate of Small Grant Facility on Biodiversity: 100%
Operating grants for NGOs
• Two-steps application
• Framework partnership agreement (FPA) - successful applicants sign a long-term
agreement (3 years – 2022-2024)
• Specific grant agreement (SGA). Only organisations that sign an FPA can be considered
for SGA
• Co-financing rate of 70% maximum
• Maximum 1 year duration for SGAsTechnical assistance projects (TA)
• TA-PP: support to the preparation of SNAPs and SIPs (TA-PP)
• Co-financing rate of maximum 60%, maximum LIFE contribution of EUR 70 000
• TA-CAP: capacity building of Member States authorities with low effective participation to the
LIFE programme
• For countries with either low effective participation, i.e. which are among the lowest two-thirds for the number of
proposals divided by Member State factor (specific calculation mode) or for the success rate
• 1 project per country maximum for 2021-24
• Co-financing rate of maximum 95%
• Maximum 5 year duration for all TA projectsIntroduction to Call 2021 and Call structure Focus on Standard Action Projects (SAP)
LIFE at Funding & tender opportunities website
Call structure
• Finding the correct call and topic
• Climate action: three topics!
• Climate Change Mitigation (CCM)
• Climate Change Adaptation (CCA)
• Climate Governance and
Information (GOV)Referenz Dokumente • LIFE Verordnung vom 29. April 2021 • LIFE Mehrjähriges Arbeitsprogramm 2021-2024 • Call document • Policy priorities! • Model Grant Agreement + Annexes • Submission through Horizon Europe’s Funding & Tenders Portal
Call document One Call document for one Call
Call document structure Clima topics and priorities
3. Available budget
0. Introduction
1. Background 4. Timetable and deadlines
What is the LIFE Programme?
5. Admissibility and documents
Nature and Biodiversity
Circular Economy and Quality of Life 6. Eligibility
Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Eligible participants (eligible countries)
Clean Energy Transition Consortium composition
Eligible activities
2. Type of action — Objectives — Themes and Geographic location (target countries)
priorities — Activities that can be funded —
7. Financial and operational capacity and
Expected impact
exclusion
Type of action
Financial capacity
Objectives
Operational capacity
Scope — Activities that can be funded
Exclusion
Expected impact
Funding rate 8. Evaluation and award procedure
Additional conditions
9. Award criteriaCall document structure (2) 10. Legal and financial set-up of the Grant Agreements (n/a for FPA) Starting date and project duration Milestones and deliverables Form of grant, funding rate and maximum grant amount Budget categories and cost eligibility rules Reporting and payment arrangements Prefinancing guarantees Certificates Liability regime for recoveries Provisions concerning the project implementation Other specificities Non-compliance and breach of contract 11. How to submit an application 12. Help 13. Important
Application Forms
Types of application forms • Application Form SAP, OAG and TA • Application Form SIP and SNAP • Application Form TA PP • Application Form TA PP LS • Application Form FPA, OG and FR NGOs • Application Form TA CAP Submission via EU “Funding & tender opportunities” portal
Structure of the proposal
Structure
• Part A: Administrative Forms > generated from your information in the Portal Submission
System
• Part B: Technical Description > uploaded as pdf (+annexes) in Submission System
• Part C: Key Performance IndicatorsProposal Part A
• Part A: Administrative Forms > generated from your information in the Portal
Submission System
• Description of the action
• Project summary
• List of participants
• List of work packages
• Staff effort
• List of deliverables
• List of milestones
• List of critical risks
• Climate relevant Sector
• Participant information (key staff, projects/activities, affiliates)Proposal Part B • Structure of Part B Vorsicht: Cover page • Zeichen- und Seitenlimits! Table of contents • DO NOT REMOVE INSTRUCTIONS! Project Summary (from Part A)
Proposal Part B (2)
1. Relevance Award criterion 1: Relevance (0-20)
• Background and general objectives • Relevance of the contribution to one or several of the specific
objectives of the LIFE programme and the targeted sub-
• Specific objectives programme;
• Compliance LIFE and call topic • Extent to which the project is in line with the description
included in the call for proposals, including, where relevant, its
• Concept and methodology specific priorities;
• Upscaling of other EU projects • Soundness of the overall intervention logic;
• Complementarity with other actions • Extent to which the project offers co-benefits and promotes
synergies with other policy areas relevant for achieving
environment and climate policy objectives.
• Synergies and co-benefits LIFE
• Synergies and co-benefits other policiesProposal Part B (3)
2. Impact Award criterion 3: Impact (0-20)
• Ambition and credibility of impacts expected during and/or after the
• Ambition of the impacts project due to the proposed activities, including potential negative
impacts on the other specific objectives of the LIFE programme,
• Credibility of the impacts including ensuring that no substantial harm is done to those
objectives.
• Sustainability of results • Sustainability of the project results after the end of the project.
• Exploitation of results • Potential for the project results to be replicated in the same or other
sectors or places, or to be up-scaled by public or private actors or
• Catalytic potential – replication and through mobilising larger investments or financial resources
upscaling (catalytic potential).
• Quality of the measures for the exploitation of project results.Proposal Part B (4)
3. Implementation
• Workplan Award criterion 2: Quality (0-20)
• Stakeholder input and engagement • Clarity, relevance and feasibility of the work plan;
• Work packages and activities • Appropriate geographic focus of the activities;
• Quality of the plan to monitor and report impacts;
• Objectives and results
• Identification and mobilisation of the relevant
• Activities and tasks stakeholders;
• Milestones and deliverables • Appropriateness and quality of the proposed measures
to communicate and disseminate the project and its
• Timetable results to different target groups.
• Impact monitoring and reporting
• Communication, dissemination and visibilityProposal Part B (5)
Award criterion 4: Resources (0-20)
4. Resources
• Composition of the project team - of a consortium or of a sole
beneficiary - in terms of expertise, skills and responsibilities
• Consortium set-up and appropriateness of the management structure.
• Project management • Appropriateness of the budget and resources and their
consistency with the proposed work plan.
• Green management • Transparency of the budget, i.e. the cost items should be
sufficiently described.
• Budget
• Extent to which the project environmental impact is considered
• Risk management and mitigated, including through the use of green
procurement.. The use of recognised methods for the
calculation of the project environmental footprint (e.g. PEF or
OEF methods or similar ones) or environmental management
systems (e.g. EMAS) would be an asset;
• Value-for-money of the proposed project.Proposal Part B (6)
5. Other Annexes
• Detailed budget table
• Ethics
• Annual activity reports (optional for some calls)
• Security
• List of previous projects
6. Declarations (funding rate, double • other
funding, third parties)Annex: Detailed budget table 1. Summary of staff effort 2. Subcontracting 3. Other direct costs • Travel • Equipment • Other goods • Infrastructure • Third parties • Land purchase
Bewertungskriterien
Award criteria Minimum Maximum Weighting
pass score score
Relevance 10 20 1
Impact 10 20 1.5
Quality 10 20 1
Resources 10 20 1
Overall weighted (pass) score (without bonus) 55 90 N/A
Bonus 1 N/A 2 1
Bonus 2 N/A 2 1
Bonus 3 N/A 2 1
Bonus 4 N/A 2 1
Bonus 5 N/A 2 1
Overall weighted (pass) scores (with bonus) 55 100 N/ABonuspunkte • Bonus 1: The proposal offers exceptional synergies and promotes significant co-benefits between LIFE sub-programmes. (2 points). • Bonus 2: The proposal is primarily implemented in the Outermost Regions. Where specific regional features are relevant to the needs addressed in the call for proposals, e.g. islands for waste, coal-intensive regions for clean energy, etc., the bonus could be extended to other geographical areas with specific needs and vulnerabilities (2 points). • Bonus 3: The proposal substantially builds on or up-scales the results of other EU funded projects. (2 points). • Bonus 4: The proposal offers an exceptional catalytic potential. (2 points). • Bonus 5: The proposal envisages a transnational cooperation among Member States essential to guarantee the achievement of the project objectives. (2 points).
Passing the eligibility check
Admissibility Eligibility
•Submitted before deadline & •Eligible participants
electronically
•Consortium composition
•Complete & using the
forms/templates provided •Eligible activities
•Readable (no smaller than Arial 9) •Geographic location
printable (A4)
•Max 120 pages (including the
instructions)Häufige Fehler • Ausgangssituation unklar • Zielgruppe, Akteure und Projektpartner nicht auf Ziele abgestimmt • Unklare Beziehung zwischen Zielen und Aktivitäten • Nachhaltigkeit der Ergebnisse unklar • Geringe messbare Effekte und zweifelhafter Mehrwert • Weiterverbreitung der Ergebnisse nicht ausgearbeitet • Marktrelevanz nicht erkannt und in Aktivitäten umgesetzt
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Evaluierungsprozess Am Beispiel Klimapolitik
Auswahl vom LIFE Klima Projekten
Pro Jahr Best
use
150-270 Anträge: of
bud- Vorläufiges Budget 2021
CCM: ~45% get
CCM: 30 Mio
CCA: ~45%
CCA: 30 Mio
GIC: ~10% Moti-
vating
appli-
GIC: 8 Mio
cants
Selecting
excellent
projects
Auswahl: EU Kofinanzierung:
~ 40+ Projekte; 60%Akteure • Externe unabhängige Experten • Begutachten bis zu 20 Anträge • CINEA Projektverantwortliche • Moderieren Evaluierungsprozess • GD Klima • Berät in Politikfragen • CINEA ist Vertragspartnerin • Verantwortlich für das Evaluierungsergebnis • Schließt die Verträge • Projektmanagement und Auszahlungen
LIFE Klima 2021: vorläufiger Zeitplan
Einstufiges Verfahren!
Projektbeginn
Abgabe des
Ergebnisse
Vertrag
Antrags
Revision
30 Nov 2021 Dez 21 – Feb 22 Mar/Apr 22 Jul 22 ab Aug 22Vielen Dank für Ihre
Aufmerksamkeit
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