LIFE, environment and climate: open European calls

The European programme LIFE has announced the 2025 calls for project proposals. The type of projects that seem particularly relevant for the Faculty of Science are the Standard Action Projects, e.g., in the sub-programme Nature & Biodiversity. Most deadlines are on 23. 9. 2025.

► On 30. 4. 2025, MŽP organise in Czech a webinar on the complementary Czech national call. Registration (in Czech) open until 29. 4. 2025 (16:00), source (in Czech).
► On 13. – 15. 5. 2025, the online EU LIFE Info Days 2025 will take place and present detailed information for applicants. Event webpage.

Czech applicants in the European call have to submit a parallel application to the complementary Czech national call, in which a maximum of 3 applications per institution can be submitted – at Charles University, 2 applications are already being prepared – and the deadline is already on 23. 6. 2025.
Faculty news about the complementary Czech national call

If you plan to participate in a proposal submitted to a call of the programme LIFE, please, contact IMMEDIATELY the Project Management Department (Martina Holíková, martina.holikova@natur.cuni.cz), in order to timely ensure the compliance with the rules of the complementary Czech national call.

• LIFE Calls for proposals 2025 – basic information, overview of open topics and deadlines, key links.
• LIFE Programme – webpage of the programme on the European Commission website.
• LIFE – Support for applicants.
• Information and updates about the LIFE programme for Czech participants (in Czech).

The European programme LIFE supports projects that have a positive impact on the environment or climate (sub-programmes Nature and Biodiversity, Circular economy and quality of life, Climate change mitigation and adaptation, and Clean Energy Transition). The projects should not focus on the research itself, but rather exploit research results. The projects should have an “added European value” (e.g., be demonstrations activities or technical solutions replicable elsewhere in Europe). Participation of entities from multiple countries in a project is not required.

The funding rate of the Standard Action Projects is usually up to 60 % (up to 75 % in specific cases in the Nature and Biodiversity sub-programme). Czech participants often get up to additional 25 % of costs funded from the complementary Czech national call (see the link above).

News published by Ludmila Součková on 25. 4. 2025.

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