LIFE+ and FERVER

1. LIFE+ and FERVER First ever project for EU-cofinancing?

2. Remember Rosalinde van der Vlies? • The LIFE+ selection procedure is currently ongoing. • LIFE+ Environment Policy and Governance • supports technological projects that offer significant environmental benefits, for example process or efficiency improvements. • helps projects that improve the implementation of EU environmental legislation.

3. Life + 2012 • LIFE+ (2007-2013) • LIFE+, the Financial Instrument for the Environment, entered into force with the publication of the Regulation in the Official Journal L149 of 9 June 2007. View the LIFE+ Regulation • LIFE+ 2012 call for proposals The sixth LIFE+ call for proposals was published in the Official Journal (2012/C 74/08) on 13 March 2012. . Calendar of the LIFE+ 2012 selection procedure 13/03/2012 Publication of the call in the Official Journal 26/09/2012 Deadline for applicants to send proposals to Member State authorities 02/10/2012 Deadline for the Member States to forward proposals to the European Commission 16/10/2012 Deadline for the Member States to enter comments on proposals 01/07/2013 Earliest project start date

4. LIFE+ 2012 call for proposals • Download: Call for proposals for LIFE+ • eProposal Tool • Applicants must use only the eProposal tool to create and submit proposal(s) under the 2012 LIFE+ Call for Proposals. • Access is provided via this link. • eProposal User Manual for National Authorities • Proposals will be submitted to the national authority of the Member State in which the coordinating beneficiary is legally registered, who will forward them to the European Commission. National Authorities are invited to use the specific manual below: • Download: eProposal User Manual for National Authorities (~ 300 KB) • Translations • We regret that this year no translations will be available. • LIFE+ Environment Policy & Governance (= CHAPTER FOR FERVER) • The Environment Policy & Governance component continues and extends the former LIFE-Environment strand. It will co-finance projects that contribute to the implementation of EU environmental policy, the development of innovative policy approaches, technologies, methods and instruments, the knowledge base as regards environment policy and legislation, and the monitoring of environmental pressures (including the long-term monitoring of forests and environmental interactions). • Download: Zip file of the LIFE+ Environment Policy & Governance application package(~ 3,5 MB)

5. Life+ Call for proposals 2012 THE COMMISSION INVITES ENTITIES REGISTERED IN THE EU TO PRESENT PROPOSALS • APPLICATIONS • The application guides that include detailed explanations in regard to eligibility and procedures can be obtained from the Commission's website at the following address: • http://ec.europa.eu/environment/life/funding/lifeplus.htm • Proposals should only be created and submitted by using the online application tool ‘eProposal’. The link to ‘eProposal’ will be timely communicated via the above mentioned website. • Beneficiaries • Proposals must be presented by entities registered in the Member States of the European Union being public and/or private bodies, actors and institutions. • The following themes are covered by this announcement • 1. LIFE+ Nature and Biodiversity • Principal objective: To protect, conserve, restore, monitor and facilitate the functioning of natural systems, natural habitats, wild flora and fauna, with the aim of halting the loss of biodiversity, including diversity of genetic resources, within the EU. • 2. LIFE+ Environment Policy and Governance • Principal objectives: • — Climate change: To stabilise greenhouse gas concentration at a level that prevents global warming above 2 °C; • — Water: To contribute to enhanced water quality by developing cost-effective measures to achieve good ecological status in view of developing river basin management plans under Directive 2000/60/EC (Water Framework Directive); • — Air: To achieve levels of air quality that do not give rise to significant negative impacts on and risks to human health and the environment; • — Soil: To protect and ensure the sustainable use of soil by preserving soil functions, preventing threats to soil, mitigating their effects and restoring degraded soils; • — Urban environment: To contribute to improving the environmental performance of Europe's urban areas; • — Noise: To contribute to policy development and implementation on environmental noise; • — Chemicals: Improve the protection of environment and health from risks posed by chemicals by 2020 by implementing chemicals legislation, in particular Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 (REACH) and the thematic strategy on the sustainable use of pesticides; • — Environment and health: To develop the information base for policy on the environment and health (the Environment and Health Action Plan);

6. Call for proposals add 1 • —Natural ressources and waste: to develop and implement ^policies designed to ensure sustainable management of natural ressources and wastes, and to improve the environmental performances of products, sustainable production and consumption patterns, waste preventio, recovery and recycming and to cotribute in the effective implementation of the thematic strategy on the prevention and recycluing of waste • Forests: To provide, especially through an EU coordination network, a concise and comprehensive basis for policy-relevant information on forests in relation to climate change (impact on forest ecosystems, mitigation, substitution effects), biodiversity (baseline information and protected forest areas), forest fires, forest conditions and the protective functions of forests (water, soil and infrastructure) as well as contributing to the protection of forests against fires; • — Innovation: To contribute to developing and demonstrating innovative policy approaches, technologies, methods and instruments to assist in the implementation of the Environmental Technologies Action Plan (ETAP); • — Strategic approaches: To promote effective implementation and enforcement of Union environmental legislation and improve the knowledge base for environmental policy; to improve the environmental performance o SMEs. • 3. LIFE+ Information and Communication • Principal objective: To disseminate information and raise awareness on environmental issues, including forest fire prevention and to provide support for accompanying measures, such as information, communication actions and campaigns, conferences and training, including training on forest fire prevention. • EU co-financing rates • — The rate of the Union financial support shall be a maximum of 50 % of the eligible costs. • DEADLINE • Project proposals shall be validated and submitted via eProposal to the national competent authorities by 26 September 2012, 23.59 local Brussels time. Project proposals shall be forwarded via eProposal to the national authority of the Member State in which the beneficiary is registered. Proposals will then be submitted via eProposal by the national authorities to the Commission 2 October 2012, 23.59 local Brussels time. • Budget involved • The overall budget for project action grants under LIFE+ in 2012 is EUR 276 710 000. At least 50 % of this amount shall be allocated to measures to support the conservation of nature and biodiversity.

7. CALL FOR PROPOSALS ADD 2 • Air: To achieve levels of air quality that do not give rise to significant negative impacts on and risks to human health and the environment; • — Soil: To protect and ensure the sustainable use of soil by preserving soil functions, preventing threats to soil, mitigating their effects and restoring degraded soils; • — Urban environment: To contribute to improving the environmental performance of Europe's urban areas; • — Noise: To contribute to policy development and implementation on environmental noise; • — Chemicals: Improve the protection of environment and health from risks posed by chemicals by 2020 by implementing chemicals legislation, in particular Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 (REACH) and the thematic strategy on the sustainable use of pesticides; • — Environment and health: To develop the information base for policy on the environment and health (the Environment and Health Action Plan);

8. BUDGET • SEE PAGE é Budget involved for AT BE BG CY CZ DK DE EE ES FI FR GR HU IE IT LT LU AND LV • Member State • Allocation 2012 (EUR) • MT • 2 614 074 • NL • 8 489 636 • PL • 18 379 918 • Member State • Allocation 2012 (EUR) • PT • 7 391 578 • RO • 11 669 142 • SE • 9 143 758 • Member State • Allocation 2012 (EUR) • SI • 5 598 674 • SK • 6 365 639 • UK • 21 648 405 • Total • 276 710 000 • More information • More information including the application guidelines and application forms can be found on the LIFE website: • http://ec.europa.eu/environment/life/funding/lifeplus.htm • It is also possible to contact the relevant national authorities: • http://ec.europa.eu/environment/life/contact/nationalcontact/index.htm • EN 13.3.2012 Official Journal of the European Union C 74/13

9. LIFE+ Environment Policy & Governance • The Environment Policy & Governance component continues and extends the former LIFE-Environment strand. It will co-finance projects that contribute to the implementation of EU environmental policy, the development of innovative policy approaches, technologies, methods and instruments, the knowledge base as regards environment policy and legislation, and the monitoring of environmental pressures (including the long-term monitoring of forests and environmental interactions). • Download: Zip file of the LIFE+ Environment Policy & Governance application package(~ 3,5 MB)

10. What is a “demonstration project”? • A "demonstration" project puts into practice, tests, evaluates and disseminates actions/methodologies that are to some degree new or unfamiliar in the project's specific context (geographical, environmental, socio-economical …), and that should be more widely applied elsewhere similar circumstances. The project must therefore be designed right from the start to demonstrate whether the techniques and methods used work or not in the project's context. • The proposal should therefore demonstrate that the necessary steps have been taken to ensure that the foundations of these hypotheses have been appropriately secured (i.e. the type and amount of previous research needed). As regards the demonstration scale, the project should be implemented on a technical scale that allows the evaluation of the technical and economic viability of the proposed pilot on a larger scale. The proposal must justify the choice of a particular scale for the project in the light of the above. In particular, for projects developing decision support systems, planning tools or the like, there has to be a specific project action • implementing the tool to demonstrate its technical and economic viability and to enable a comparison with the baseline situation. • Monitoring, evaluation and active dissemination of the main project results and/or lessons learnt are an integral part of the project and its aftermath. A demonstration project therefore ultimately aims to encourage other stakeholders to use the techniques and methods demonstrated in the project.

11. And what is an “innovative project”? • An "innovative" project applies a technique or method that has not been applied / tested before or elsewhere and that offers potential environmental advantages compared to current best practice. • Where the proposed actions are presented as innovative, the level of innovation can be evaluated from different perspectives: • a) relative to the technologies applied by the project (technological innovation) • b) regarding the way technologies are implemented (innovation in processes or methods),

12. 3.Eur.Cssion: Grant Agreement Life 20124 Guidelines for applicants: Application forms (part 1) Context of the proposal(part 2) 5. Life + 2012 Application package6. Simplified Financial Statement7. Public Body declaration Life+ 2012. End

13. Content of the ZIP file: Life+Environment Policy and Governancecfr. http://ec.europa.eu/environment/life/funding/lifeplus2012 • 1. Common provisions 2012 • 2. Guide for the evaluation of Life+ project proposals 2012. • 3: cfr next slide

14. Some ideas from the past?

15. Year range : from 1999 to 2012 Keywords : glass industrySorted by : Year ascending • [+] ROFITEC - Demonstration of Rotating Filter Technology in seven industrial waste streams LIFE04 ENV/NL/000660 • 2004 • NL • SME Small and medium sized enterprise • Keywords: by-product ⁄ cellulose ⁄ chemical industry ⁄ filtration ⁄ food industry ⁄ glass industry ⁄ industrial waste ⁄ industrial waste water ⁄ paper industry ⁄ physical treatment ⁄ starch ⁄ textile waste water ⁄ waste treatment ⁄ waste water treatment ⁄ • [+] CLEAR - Proyect to demonstrate a system to increase cullet leverage for environmentally attractive recy ... • LIFE05 ENV/UK/000122

16. [+] HotOxyGlass - Validation of environment friendly flat glass production using an innovative hot oxygen combust ... • 2007 • [+] NOVEDI - No Vetro in Discarica (No glass in landfill): demonstrating innovative technologies for integra ... • LIFE07 ENV/IT/000361 • 2007 • IT • SME Small and medium sized enterprise • Keywords: glass industry ⁄ insulating material ⁄ waste recycling ⁄ • [+] glass fiber - Recycling of waste glass fiber reinforced plastic with microwave pyrolysis • LIFE07 ENV/S/000904

17. [+] MEIGLASS - Minimising the Environmental impact of GLASS recycling and glass container production • LIFE06 ENV/IT/000332 • 2006 • IT • SME Small and medium sized enterprise • Keywords: glass industry ⁄ industrial process ⁄ residual waste ⁄ waste reduction ⁄

18. [+] glass fiber - Recycling of waste glass fiber reinforced plastic with microwave pyrolysis • LIFE07 ENV/S/000904 • 2007 • SE • Large entreprise • Keywords: glass industry ⁄ industrial waste ⁄ plastic waste ⁄ waste reduction ⁄ • [+] WGF-PP - Dmonstration of a process to recycle glas fibre waste, placed on rubbish dump, producing Polypr ... • LIFE07 ENV/E/000802 • 2007 • ES • SME Small and medium sized enterprise • Keywords: glass industry ⁄ industrial waste ⁄ plastic ⁄ waste use • ⁄ • [+] Composites Waste - Demonstration of a new composites waste recycling process and of the use of the recycled materi ... • LIFE09 ENV/DK/000367 • 2009 • DK • Large entreprise • Keywords: building material ⁄ glass industry ⁄ waste recycling ⁄ waste use ⁄ • [+] AGICAL+ - Validation of an environmentally friendly system, combining CO2 capture and biofuel production ... • LIFE10 ENV/BE/000696 • 2010 • BE • International enterprise

19. What about : AFM .UK: sand filtration? and WGF.pp glass fiber- ESP? • If you want to look at them: go to : “Life+ bijkomende info htm” – in “my documents” and open them in the small squares.

20. E N D • THAT IS IT, FOLKS! • AT LEAST FOR THE MOMENT. • SEE YOU IN DUBLIN FOR THE REST? • HDB MAI 3D 2012.