Climate Change Adaptation
EU LIFE 2026 grant for projects enhancing climate change adaptation and resilience across sectors.
This call funds projects that help the EU become climate-resilient by 2050. It supports adaptation strategies, nature-based solutions, and risk preparedness. Projects should align with EU climate laws and the Paris Agreement.
Likely relevant for
- Environmental NGOs
- Research institutions in climate adaptation
- Public authorities in climate policy
- Agriculture and forestry sector organizations
- Water management bodies
- Urban planners and infrastructure developers
Project signals
What it funds
- Support implementation and revision of climate adaptation strategies at national, regional, or local levels
- Develop and apply advanced tools for climate risk assessment and cost-effective adaptation
- Implement nature-based solutions in rural, urban, and coastal areas
- Enhance climate-proofing and resilience of infrastructure and buildings
- Adaptation solutions for agriculture and forestry sectors
- Water management improvements
- Address climate adaptation and health issues
- Preparedness for compound and cascading climate risks
- Develop financial instruments, innovative solutions, and public-private collaborations on insurance and loss data
Expected outcomes
- Efficient delivery of quantified adaptation objectives by project end
- Strengthened adaptive capacity and resilience
- Reduced vulnerability to climate change impacts
- Contribution to EU Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change and Paris Agreement goals
Who can apply / participate
- Public authorities
- Research organizations
- Non-governmental organizations
- Private entities involved in climate adaptation
- Check call document section 6 for consortium eligibility and composition rules
- Eligible countries as per section 6 of call document
- Refer to section 6 of call document for detailed eligibility conditions
- Specific funding rates
- Maximum grant amounts
Must check before shortlisting
- Eligibility criteria in section 6 of call document
- Consortium composition rules
- Budget limits and funding rates
Money
Total budget of approximately €28 million for 2026 for this call strand.
- LIFE-2026-SAP-CLIMA-CCA budget for 2026 — 28000000EURIndicative budget for climate change adaptation projects in 2026
Application notes
- Single-stage submission model.
- Proposal page limits and layout as per section 5 of call document and Part B of Application Form
- Eligibility and admissibility conditions in section 6 of call document
- Financial and operational capacity requirements in section 7
- Evaluation and award criteria in sections 8 and 9
- Legal and financial set-up in section 10
- Mandatory and optional annexes as specified in call document
- Prepare proposal following call document guidelines
- Submit via Funding & Tenders Portal before deadline
- Include mandatory annexes such as detailed budget and participant information
- Optionally include letters of support, maps, site descriptions, and other relevant annexes
- Check eligibility and admissibility carefully before submission
- Follow page limits and formatting rules strictly
- Consult FAQs and National Contact Points for support
Derived from official EU Funding portal source · updated 22 Jun 2026, 17:16 UTC. Use this as a shortlisting aid; the official call text remains authoritative.
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Official source text
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Topic description
Expected Outcome: Efficient delivery of the quantified objectives by the end of the project. Objective: Projects under this strand should help to achieve the long-term vision of the new EU Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change that, in 2050, the EU will be a climate-resilient society which is fully adapted to the unavoidable impacts of climate change. Projects should help to reinforce adaptive capacity, strengthen resilience, and reduce vulnerability, in line with the Paris Agreement and the European Climate Law. Scope: Areas of Intervention: Support to the implementation of climate adaptation policies and the revision of national, regional or local climate adaptation strategies and plans; Implementing state-of-the-art tools for climate risk assessments or selection of cost-effective adaptation measures for dealing with climate threats and solutions for adaptation; Development and implementation of nature-based solutions for different types of areas (rural, urban and coastal); Climate-proofing and resilience of infrastructure and buildings; Adaptation solutions for agriculture and forestry; Water management; Climate adaptation and health; Preparedness for compound risks and cascading risks; Financial instruments, innovative solutions and public private collaboration on insurance and loss data.
Conditions and documents
Conditions
1. Admissibility conditions: Proposal page limit and layout
described in section 5 of the call document.
Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System.
2. Eligible countries
described in section 6 of the call document.
3. Other eligibility conditions
described in section 6 of the call document.
4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion
described in section 7 of the call document.
5a. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes
described section 8 of the call document and the Online Manual.
5b. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds
described in section 9 of the call document.
5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement
described in section 4 of the call document.
6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants
described in section 10 of the call document.
Call document and annexes:
Standard application form — the application form specific to this call is available in the Submission System
Mandatory Annexes to the application form:
Optional Annexes:
- Letters of support
- Maps (LIFE)
- Description of sites (LIFE)
- Other Annexes (for example: Lifecycle analysis, Business plans etc.
Additional documents:
LIFE Multiannual Work Programme 2025-2027
EU Financial Regulation 2024/2509
Rules for Legal Entity Validation, LEAR Appointment and Financial Capacity Assessment
Funding & Tenders Portal Online Manual
Support information
Consult the FAQs in LIFE website Get in touch with your National Contact Point (NCP) . We want also to draw your attention on the possibility to get support from your NCP. To facilitate such support, it would be beneficial to add your NCP under the “Participants” step of the application, by clicking on “Add contact”. Then, Under “Project role”, use the option “Contact person” and add your NCP’s data. Funding & Tenders Portal FAQ – Submission of proposals . IT Helpdesk – Contact the IT helpdesk for questions such as forgotten passwords, access rights and roles, technical aspects of submission of proposals, etc. Online Manual – Step-by-step online guide through the Portal processes from proposal preparation and evaluation to reporting on your ongoing project. Valid for all 2021-2027 programmes.
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