Projects on Legislative and Policy Priorities in the field of Clean Energy Transition
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Funding Description
Overview
The LIFE-2025-PLP-ENER call, entitled *Projects on Legislative and Policy Priorities in the field of Clean Energy Transition*, finances a single, high-impact action that will measure real-life energy use of household products and translate the evidence into improvements of EU Ecodesign and Energy Labelling legislation.
What the Grant Funds
* Design and deployment of in-situ measurement campaigns in EU households (meters, sensors, data-loggers, remote connectivity)
* Collection, anonymisation, storage and statistical analysis of energy-use data and related user behaviour
* Development of improved test methods, impact modelling and policy scenarios
* Stakeholder engagement: recruitment & retention of households, workshops with consumer NGOs, standardisation bodies, authorities
* Drafting of legislative and standardisation recommendations; input to the Ecodesign Impact Accounting Model
* Communication, dissemination, exploitation (open datasets, policy briefs, standard drafts)
* Project management, quality assurance, IPR, ethics and gender mainstreaming activities
Eligible Applicants
* Consortia of ≥ 3 independent beneficiaries from ≥ 3 LIFE-eligible countries (EU Member States or listed OCTs)
* Typical roles: energy agencies (coordinator), testing laboratories, universities, consumer & environmental NGOs, standardisation experts, ICT/IoT SMEs
* Affiliated entities, associated partners and subcontractors may participate but do not count towards the 3-beneficiary minimum
Financial Details
* Indicative EU contribution per project: ≈ 2 M € (but up to 23.8 M € possible)
* Funding rate: 90 % of eligible direct costs + 7 % flat-rate for indirect costs
* Minimum co-funding by consortium: 10 % (cash or in-kind)
* Project duration: ≈ 36 months (justify if shorter/longer)
* Payment scheme: pre-financing → interim payment(s) → balance payment after approval
* Eligible costs: personnel, equipment depreciation/leasing, subcontracting, travel & subsistence, consumables, communication, non-recoverable VAT
* Ineligible costs: infrastructure not strictly needed, profit-making activities, expenses outside the action period, exchange-rate losses
Other Key Conditions
* Single-stage submission via the EU Funding & Tenders Portal by 23 Sep 2025 – 17:00 Brussels time
* Only one proposal will be funded; evaluation is therefore binary (win/lose)
* Proposal Part B page limit: follow LIFE template (≈ 70 pages)
* GDPR compliance, household privacy, ethics self-assessment and data-management plan are mandatory
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🇪🇺 Strategic Advantages
EU-Wide Advantages & Opportunities of LIFE-2025-PLP-ENER
1. Policy Leverage at Continental Scale
- Direct influence on EU legislation: Results feed straight into the next reviews of the Ecodesign & Energy Labelling Regulations and the Ecodesign Impact Accounting Model. A dataset covering multiple Member States carries far more weight than isolated national studies when DG ENER, DG GROW or CENELEC draft new requirements or harmonised standards.
- Alignment with flagship packages: Supports Fit-for-55, REPowerEU and the Energy Efficiency Directive (EED Art. 8 & 9) by providing hard evidence on real-life savings potential—something currently missing in impact assessments.
- Single-market consistency: Uniform test methods emerging from the project avoid fragmentation, ensuring that manufacturers face one coherent rulebook instead of 27 variants.
2. Robustness Through Geographic & Socio-Economic Diversity
- Representative sampling across climatic zones (Nordic, Continental, Mediterranean) and life-styles (urban vs. rural, different income bands) is only feasible with an EU consortium.
- Better statistical power (n > 1 000 devices over ≥10 MS) unlocks granular determinants of energy use that national campaigns cannot capture (e.g. effect of tariff structures, appliance mix, cultural habits).
- Cross-country benchmarking reveals best practices and behavioural nudges transferable from high-performing regions to laggards.
3. Economies of Scale & Cost Efficiency
- Up to 90 % co-funding plus the possibility to pool procurement (e.g. smart-plug meters, cloud platforms) lowers unit monitoring costs by 25–40 % compared with separate national pilots.
- Shared R&D infrastructure: Utilisation of existing EU facilities (JRC labs, EURAMET calibration services, EU Energy Labelling Database EPREL) avoids duplication and speeds deployment.
4. Industrial & Market Opportunities
- Pan-European product feedback loop: Manufacturers obtain real-life performance data for design optimisation, reinforcing the EU’s global leadership in efficient appliances.
- Stimulus for digital-energy SMEs offering IoT-based monitoring, data analytics and demand-response services.
- Preparation for global export: New EU test protocols derived from the project often become ISO/IEC standards, opening extra-EU markets for compliant products.
5. Knowledge-Sharing & Capacity-Building
- Transnational learning via a consortium that must include technical experts, consumer NGOs and statistical modellers, fostering a European community of practice.
- Enhanced Market Surveillance Authorities (MSA) capability: Harmonised real-life datasets strengthen MSA risk-based targeting and bolster cross-border enforcement under Regulation (EU) 2019/1020.
6. Data Sovereignty & Open Science
- Creation of an EU public micro-dataset (with GDPR-compliant anonymisation) enables researchers, start-ups and policymakers to run secondary analyses—amplifying impact far beyond the three-year project.
- Interoperability with EU energy data spaces promoted under the Digital Europe Programme.
7. Long-Term Climate Impact
- Quantified contribution: If the project identifies even a 5 % gap between label values and real-life consumption for the three priority products, tightening Ecodesign levels could save ≈7 TWh and 2 Mt CO₂-eq annually EU-wide—enough to power ≈2 million households.
- Replication blueprint for future LIFE or Horizon Europe calls on heat pumps, EV chargers, or connected HVAC systems.
8. Strategic Consortium Advantages
- Eligibility & competitiveness: Minimum 3 countries/3 beneficiaries is mandatory; forming a 7–10 partner consortium that pairs leading labs (e.g. Fraunhofer, RISE, CEA-Liten) with consumer bodies (BEUC members) and MSAs scores high on Excellence and Impact.
- Single proposal to be funded: EU-wide coverage is a de-risking differentiator in a winner-takes-all call.
9. Complementarity & Synergies
- Horizon Europe Cluster 5 projects (e.g. ENCHANT, ENEFIRST) provide behavioural models that can be validated with the project’s field data.
- National Recovery & Resilience Plans offer co-funding for hardware deployment in pilot regions.
- CEN-CENELEC TC 59X liaison ensures rapid standard uptake.
10. Legacy & Scaling Pathways
- Integration into EPREL 3.0 allowing consumers to see ‘typical in-home energy use’ next to label values.
- Open-source toolbox for in-situ monitoring and statistical correction factors, enabling municipalities and energy agencies to extend the methodology to thousands of households post-LIFE.
Bottom Line: Acting at EU level multiplies scientific credibility, policy relevance, market uptake and cost effectiveness—turning a €2 million LIFE grant into a continental springboard for more accurate, impactful and trusted energy efficiency policy across the Single Market.
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