2008 LIFE presentation 1

2008 LIFE+ call for proposals

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TimetableDate or period Activity

15 July 2008 2008 LIFE+ call for proposals launched21 November 2008 Deadline for applicants to send proposals to Member State authorities05 January 2009 Deadline for the Member States to forward proposals to the

European CommissionJanuary to July 2009 Admissibility, exclusion and eligibility, evaluation and

revision of the proposals31 December 2009 Deadline for signing grant agreements01 January 2010 Earliest possible starting date for the 2008 projects

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Indicative national allocation per Member State for the 2008 LIFE+ application round (EUR)

Austria 3.895.038 Latvia 2.750.000

Belgium 4.282.100 Lithuania 2.856.683

Bulgaria 4.467.666 Luxembourg 2.268.234

Cyprus 2.200.000 Malta 2.384.000

Czech Republic 4.117.414 Netherlands 6.654.410

Denmark 5.095.709 Poland 9.830.858

Estonia 3.438.168 Portugal 5.810.890

Finland 7.431.275 Romania 9.033.381

France 18.154.414 Slovakia 3.170.514

Germany 24.152.660 Slovenia 4.471.481

Greece 7.053.895 Spain 22.228.050

Hungary 5.186.640 Sweden 8.528.922

Ireland 3.267.012 United Kingdom 16.505.268

Italy 18.265.318 TOTAL 207.500.000

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2008 LIFE+ application package

Most important changes compared to the 2007 package:

1. Submission format: applicants requested to submit the application forms as 2 separate pdf documents - one scanned to pdf (A forms) and another converted to pdf (B and C forms, financial forms and output indicator forms), in order to reduce file sizes.

2. Changes to the technical application forms: Form A4 has become A2, A2 has become A3 and A3 has

become A4. Some information fields have been modified and some

removed, in order to better define the information requested and avoid duplication and information which is not necessary.

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Changes to the application package (cont.)

3. Changes have been made to the guidelines for applicants:

Some general changes to all documents. The former general guidelines for applicants and the guidelines for

filling in the financial forms have now been integrated into the specific guidelines for each of the 3 strands of LIFE+.

LIFE+ Nature & Biodiversity: considerable changes have been made to the guidelines.

LIFE+ Environment Policy and Governance: certain changes, including the addition of more specific definitions for "innovation" and "demonstration".

LIFE+ Information and Communication: substantial changes have been made in order to strengthen the specifications of the type of proposals the EC would like to see as far as their objectives, content and structure are concerned.

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Changes to the application package (cont.)

4. There are no longer two potential types of public coordinating beneficiaries (public bodies / public authorities) --> only public bodies + a new annex is required in these cases (the Public Body Declaration)

5. A more explicit clarification has been added regarding the employment by public bodies of temporary personnel hired specifically for the project (in which case they do not fall into the "2%" civil servant's personnel costs rule)

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Changes to the application package (cont.)

6. National annual priorities (NAPs) enter into effect. A related award criterion now exists for the evaluation. Applicants can consult whether their Member State has defined NAPs for 2008 on the LIFE+ website.

7. "Eligibility phase" has been replaced by "Admissibility, exclusion and eligibility phase", and the relevant criteria have been re-categorised accordingly.

8. Changes have been made in the award criteria, which will now include the NAPs, but are reduced in number from 7 to 6 because certain criteria have been merged together.

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Changes to the application package (cont.)

9. Applicants are now required to define output monitoring indicators in their proposal. Specific forms for this purpose are included in the application package and the corresponding guidelines on how to complete them have been incorporated in the guidelines for applicants.

10. More specific guidelines on after-LIFE communication / conservation plans have been added in the guidelines for applicants.