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1 430 project proposals requesting a total of €4.3 billion in EU funding were received in response to the LIFE Programme 2026 Call for proposals for nature, environment, climate action and clean energy transition projects.
With LIFE Programme support, LIFE BIOBCOMPO developed a plant-fibre biocomposite that makes vehicle parts lighter with the potential to reduce vehicle related CO2 emissions. Since 2022, around 10,000 vehicles have been equipped with these biocomposites.
Power lines kill thousands of migrating birds every year in Europe. Along the mighty Danube River, one LIFE project is working to make the migration routes safer for the birds that depend on it.
Across Europe, natural resources such as sunlight, wind, land and the sea are inspiring new technologies that can help address climate change while strengthening Europe's scientific and industrial capabilities.
Europe faces a major challenge in scaling finance for Nature-based Solutions (NbS). Although policy support is growing, funding still relies mainly on public sources.
Extremadura, in western Spain, faces growing wildfire risks as prolonged droughts and the expansion of forests following rural depopulation create increasingly favourable conditions for large fires. The RESIST project has announced plans to scale up an innovative approach to wildfire prevention.
More than 560 participants from 30 countries gathered in the Netherlands to explore how peatland restoration can support biodiversity, climate resilience and greenhouse-gas reduction, with LIFE projects demonstrating practical solutions already delivering results across Europe.
CINEA received 246 applications requesting almost €3 billion in co-funding from the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) Transport by the 6 October 2026 call deadline.
From sustainable transport to coastal cooperation and clean energy, EU programmes are helping people across Member States stay closer – socially, economically and environmentally.
What if the by-products of aquaculture could become building materials, new farm inputs or the raw material for entirely different products? That question was at the heart of a workshop organised by CINEA at Aquaculture Europe 2026 in Ljubljana (Slovenia) this week.