Is the LIFE agreement really the same as Horizon Europe’s?

One general agreement covers about 35 EU programmes; programme-specific provisions are grouped in Article 6 and Annex 5. The time-record and personnel-cost rules are in the shared part.

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LIFE

LIFE grants — the EU’s programme for the environment and climate action, managed by CINEA — run on the same general model grant agreement as Horizon Europe: day-equivalents, 215, the month signed by the person and their supervisor. The programme has its own cost categories and its own certificate threshold.

What Beneficia applies

The daily rate ÷ 215 and the ceiling, exactly as under Horizon Europe
The month signed with the attestation, approved, locked — Article 20 is a rule of the general agreement, not a CINEA peculiarity
LIFE’s cost categories, including A.5 volunteers (a unit cost) and D.2 land purchase, and indirect costs at the 7 % flat rate
The certificate on the financial statements at LIFE’s own threshold, € 500 000 per beneficiary
Deliverables and milestones from Annex 1 on the project-month ruler; reporting periods from the Data Sheet

1Coordinating a LIFE project

A LIFE coordinator reports for the consortium and carries the figures of every beneficiary. Beneficia shows the budget with a column per beneficiary and your own marked, keeps each beneficiary’s deliverables under its lead, and freezes the period’s figures when the report is marked submitted.

Questions

Is the LIFE agreement really the same as Horizon Europe’s?: One general agreement covers about 35 EU programmes; programme-specific provisions are grouped in Article 6 and Annex 5. The time-record and personnel-cost rules are in the shared part.

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