LIFE+
LIFE is the EU's financial instrument supporting environmental, nature conservation and climate action projects throughout the EU. Since 1992, LIFE has co-financed more than 4500 projects, contributing approximately €3.4 billion euros to the protection of the environment and climate.
Updated: 6 years 17 weeks ago
EU food sector raises the bar on biodiversity
Environmentally-friendly farming practices such as lining fields with hedges and rotating crops are finding their way into mainstream agriculture.
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Climate Action project applicants seek nearly €200 million from LIFE
Applicants have submitted 124 proposals for traditional LIFE projects under the Climate Action sub-programme in the 2018 funding round. The deadline for applications was Wednesday 12 September. Half (62) of the proposals are for Climate Change Mitigation projects, with 51 for Climate Change Adaptation projects and the remaining 11 for the Climate Governance and Information (GIC) strand.
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Enabling invertebrates to play an essential role in ecosystems
Bees, beetles, snails and other invertebrates make up 80% of the animal kingdom. Without them – and their crucial services like pollination and pest control - our ecosystems would collapse. This means that conserving bugs is of vital importance to us all – or at least it should be.
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New app for greener travel by public transport
Public transport use is relatively low in Greece. LIFE GreenYourMove is hoping to change this with its new web platform and smartphone applications, designed to help users make the most environmentally-friendly journeys on public transport, and so cut greenhouse gas emissions.
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How LIFE is improving our seas
"Clean and healthy oceans are crucial to the wellbeing of our planet," says European Commissioner for Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, Karmenu Vella. From boosting biodiversity to stopping marine litter, LIFE is making a big contribution to EU efforts to achieve 'good environmental status' for marine waters. Now these success stories have been brought together in one publication: LIFE and the marine environment.
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Bringing soils back to life
Toxic pollutants from industrial waste can accumulate in fields and enter food chains, raising serious public health concerns. ECOREMED’s innovation was to grow combinations of pollutant-removing plants and trees to rehabilitate contaminated soils in Campania, southern Italy.
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Bringing PVC-free blood bags one step closer
Karolinska University Hospital in Sweden’s Jamtland region, a partner of the LIFE project PVCFreeBloodBag, is taking the next steps in its mission to create a new, safer blood bag.
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Frequently Asked Questions about the LIFE 2018 Integrated Projects Call for Proposals Published
A Frequently Asked Questions document about the LIFE 2018 Integrated Projects Call for Proposals (Stage1) is now available.
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New developments in ship recycling
Recycling techniques for end-of-life ships developed by a LIFE project are now being used by shipyards in Spain to dismantle fishing vessels and support ships. And Reciclauto Navarra, the company behind the project has just signed an agreement to be involved in safer ship recycling in North and West Africa.
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Changing lives for a changing climate
Based in the Vorarlberg region of Austria, the EKO-LIFE project found a novel way to address climate change, while supplementing existing policies and actions. "It is hard for people to change their lifestyles, because there are always difficult decisions to make, so we decided to provide experimental spaces for people to try out new things,"
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Waste sludge finds new life as biofuel
Treating wastewater from industrial plants is an expensive business, requiring a lot of energy and generating high carbon emissions. EffiSludge for LIFE has a solution to this – converting waste sludge from the process into biogas.
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