Scope

1) Raising awareness on nature and conservation issues, EU nature policies, tools and/or legislation among the relevant target audiences, aiming to change their perceptions and fostering the adoption of supporting behaviours and practices, and/or direct citizen’s engagement. Applicants need to provide substantial evidence that a change of awareness levels in the field addressed by the project is a crucial factor supporting correct implementation and/or future development of EU nature and biodiversity conservation policies tools and/or legislation. The awareness-raising activities should have the widest coverage relevant for the specific issue targeted.

2) Promoting good practices, supporting implementation, organising trainings, educational, academic programmes, etc. to ensure effective compliance assurance, as well as public participation and access to justice in nature and biodiversity policy and legislation-related matters amongst the public (including youth and future professionals), NGOs, lawyers, the judiciary, public administrations or other stakeholders with a view to improving knowledge, understanding and application of effective means of public participation and/or access to justice, with a particular focus on protecting nature and biodiversity via the nature, biodiversity, water and environmental liability instruments.

Expected impact

Applicants are expected to define, calculate, explain and achieve the expected impacts as described in the Award criterion ‘Impacts’ (see section 9) in terms of conservation benefit.

All LIFE proposals will have to report on their expected outputs and impacts taking into account the LIFE Project indicators (LPIs). These LPIs will contribute to evaluating the impact of the LIFE proposal on an environmental but also socio-economic level (e.g. via actions impacting the local economy and population). All the indicators measured should be coherent with the conservation or biodiversity problem addressed and the type of activities planned.

Applicants should review relevant indicators in Part C of the eGrant application and complete them with the estimated impact of the project. Part C data should be coherent with the description of impacts of section 2 of Part B of the Application Form.

In case Part C does not include impact indicators that are important for the specific project, applicants should make use of the indicator “Other project specific KPIs” in Part C and provide a relevant description of such indicators in section 2 of Part B of the Application Form.

If relevant, projects must upload a Geographic Information System (GIS) file and associated data of the specific geographical area where the intervention took place as a deliverable in their final report. This map should enable to spatially visualise the impact already reported in the Life Project Indicators database. The specific format and technical requirements of the GIS files will be provided to the supported projects during their implementation. In addition, LIFE projects are encouraged to make use of Copernicus and/or Galileo/EGNOS for satellites-based earth observation, positioning, navigation and/or related timing data and services.

Actions

The call covers the following topics:

– LIFE-2026-SAP-NAT-NATURE – Nature and Biodiversity

– LIFE-2026-SAP-NAT-GOV – Nature Governance and Information