Overview

Donor: European Commission (EC) - LIFE
Application procedure: Online Application
Donor base: Belgium
Reference number: LIFE-2025-PLP-URBAN
Eligible applicants: Non-Profit Organisation, Social Business
Deadline: 23.09.2025

Financial details

Grant size: Large - more than $1,000,000
Minimum grant size: -
Total available budget: 8.000.000€
Funding type: Grants
Maximum grant size: 8.000.000€
Funding ratio: up to 90%

Sectors

  • Agriculture & Rural Development
  • Capacity Building
  • Climate Change
  • Economic Development
  • Energy
  • Environment & Natural Resources
  • Research, Technology & Innovation
  • Water & Sanitation

Project Locations

  1. Europe

      Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine

Description

1) Objective

This specific funding topic intends to support the green transition in urban spaces in a cross-sectoral and integrated way. It aims to bolster the capacity of urban local authorities to adopt integrated approaches and to unlock the potential of interconnections between the various environmental, climate and energy challenges existing at urban level and addressing them in a cross-sectoral and integrated way e.g. on circular economy, zero pollution, nature and biodiversity, clean energy transition and climate action.

By offering support to local authorities to develop and implement ambitious integrated approaches that can effectively provide solutions to key challenges across the environmental, climate and energy policy areas, it is expected to contribute to the implementation of various Union environmental, climate and/or energy legislation and/or policies in urban spaces and to maximise the co-benefits of an integrated approaches.

2) Eligibility

In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must be legal entities (public or private bodies) registered in an eligible country.

3) Location

LIFE projects shall take place in the territory of the European Union Member States plus Ukraine, Moldova, North Macedonia.

4) Budget

Funding rate is 90% and the EU contribution ranges up to €8,000,000. Total funding available is €8,000,000. They want to fund 3-4 projects.

5) Application

Proposals must be submitted electronically via the Funding & Tenders Portal Electronic Submission System (accessible via the Topic page in the Search Funding & Tenders section. Paper submissions are NOT possible. The deadline is 23 September 2025.

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