Circular Economy and Zero Pollution

Expected Impact

Applicants are expected to define, calculate, explain and achieve the expected impacts as described in the Award criterion ‘Impact’ (see Call document section 2 and 9).

Objective

The aim is to facilitate the transition toward a sustainable, circular, energy-efficient and climate-resilient economy, a toxic-free environment and at protecting, restoring and improving the quality of the environment in line with the European Green Deal and recent policy developments.

The specific objective is to cover one or more of the following topics as fully defined in section 2 of the Call document:

• Circular Economy and Waste • Recovery of Resources from Waste
• Circular Economy and the Environment

• Zero pollution and sustainable management of natural resources • Air
• Water
• Soil
• Noise
• Chemicals
• Industrial Emissions and Safety
• A new European Bauhaus

Please note that the assessment of the extent to which the project is in line with the specific priorities of the call (part of Award criterion 1) will be done exclusively on the basis of the topics identified and described under section ‘Compliance with LIFE programme objectives and call topic’ of the Standard application form. Please also note that a maximum of two sub-topics shall be selected (e.g.: Air quality improvement and emission reduction of PM.... solutions and Sustainable road transport mobility) and only those will be considered in the evaluation.

Scope

The present Call topic targets Standard Action Projects (SAP) aimed at achieving the objectives of the Circular Economy and Quality of Life sub-programme. SAP are defined in section 2 of the call document (Type of Action) while the general objectives of the sub-programme in section 1 (‘Circular Economy and Quality of Life’).

SAP focussing exclusively on environmental governance are excluded from this Call topic and covered by the related Call topic named LIFE-2026-SAP-ENV-GOV.