6.4 Współfinansowanie Programu LIFE

Applicant types

SME, Large company, Startup, Research org, University, NGO, Public body, Municipality, Individual, Other

Purpose

Energy, environment, infrastructure

R&D relevance

1 of 3

Poland eligible

Yes

Country limit

Polish-registered applicants; supported activities must occur or produce effects in Poland

Region

Any

Consortium

Optional

Readiness level (TRL)

—

Topics

• LIFE project implementation
• Environmental protection
• Environmental project co-financing

Machine-classified from the call text; check eligibility at the source. 24 Oct 2026

Typed facts extracted from the source documents by Scindu's grant-data review. Each value keeps its own conditions. Unknown means unstated, not zero or unlimited.

Applicant typeProgramme §7.4; call page/annex distinguishes stages and route types.

Eligible applicants are entities registered in Poland falling within the legal-person, legally-capable non-personal organizational-unit, public/local organizational-unit without legal personality, or business-conducting natural-person classes. The exact applicant role (coordinator, co-beneficiary, foreign-project co-beneficiary or public-budget-unit task manager) must fit the specific LIFE project route.

Application restrictionExact 2026 intake; stage and proposal type control.

This is the distinct 2026 LIFE grant intake (14/NC/UR/6.4/2026/Dotacja_ LIFE 2026). The provider schedule records the overall window 2026-05-12 through 2027-12-30; additional exact proposal-stage deadlines and EC-invitation conditions are listed in the call notice. The overall schedule does not mean every proposal stage remains open throughout.

Application restrictionCall page and regulations §2; exact deadline depends on project type/stage.

Submit in the NFOŚiGW GWD using the route-specific form by the applicable call/stage deadline. If an electronic signature is unavailable, submit the GWD-generated barcode application printout and representation-compliant signed declarations in addition to the electronic version. Applications received after the applicable deadline are rejected.

Application restrictionOfficial 2026 call schedule; stage, SAP/SIP/SNAP/PJB, supplementary, EC invitation and beneficiary role all matter.

Primary SAP Stage I: 31 July 2026; SIP/SNAP Stage I: 15 January 2027; state-budget-unit SAP/SIP/SNAP: 29 January 2027. After EC invitation, Stage II SAP: 30 April 2027; SIP/SNAP: 30 July 2027. Supplementary SAP/SIP/SNAP after EC invitation and Polish co-beneficiaries of foreign projects: by 30 December 2027. As of 23 October 2026, the upcoming 2027 deadlines have not passed; the general intake being listed as open does not establish that every 2027 stage has opened in GWD.

Application restrictionCall regulations §2 and supplementary intake provisions; not a blanket one-application rule across separate years or stages.

Within one intake, an applicant may submit one application for the same project and same funding form; only the first of multiple same-project/same-form applications is considered. Rejection at access or qualitative admissibility stage does not bar a new application under the same intake’s rules; the call regulations also provide for supplementary applications after qualifying rejection/EC invitation.

Application restrictionCall attachment list for 2026; exact checklist is proposal type/stage-specific.

Required supporting documents vary by applicant and application stage and include beneficiary declarations; for strategic Stage I, the LIFE concept note and Polish translation; for the specified Stage II/supplementary routes, the LIFE EC application, PLN-extended budget sheets, EC invitation/correspondence and relevant Polish project summary/translation. GDOŚ position is required only where relevant. The call-specific attachment list controls; this is not one universal bundle.

Eligible project scopeOfficial 2026 call notice; does not inherit technical-assistance scope from 2025.

This 2026 call covers SAP and SIP/SNAP LIFE projects, public-budget-unit managers for those projects, supplementary filings after EC invitation, and Polish co-beneficiaries in foreign LIFE projects through the supplementary route. The reviewed 2026 notice lists SAP, SIP/SNAP, PJB and supplementary/foreign-project routes; it does not list the 2025 technical-assistance-for-replication route, which is not carried forward here.

Other conditionProgramme §7.3; grant/transfer only.

NFOŚiGW support is denominated in PLN. EUR conversion uses the NBP average rate for the last business day before the month in which an application/update is submitted. An NFOŚiGW grant/transfer agreement is conditional on European Commission selection, and the first payment follows execution of the EC LIFE grant agreement; NFO amount is not indexed for exchange differences or inflation.

Staff restrictionCall-level evidence only; no signed EC grant agreement or project-specific approved budget was provided.

The reviewed NFOŚiGW call, programme and attachment materials do not state a job title, hiring obligation, headcount, FTE or pay rate. NFO eligible costs are delegated to the EC LIFE grant agreement and applicable LIFE programme documents, so staff eligibility and actual payroll must be determined from those operative project documents and approved budget; no generic salary/job claim is supported here.

Eligible costProgramme §6; call year 2026. Final budget and EC grant agreement control actual category eligibility.

Eligible costs (apart from the separately specified LIFE application incubator rules, which this grant call does not present as a separate route) are determined by the EC LIFE grant agreement and other applicable LIFE programme documents; the NFOŚiGW eligible-cost period follows the implementation period in the NFOŚiGW agreement. Final cost acceptance follows the EC final report, and public-aid rules also apply where relevant.

Eligible costApplies to cross-border/foreign-project roles and the land-acquisition condition, not as a general geographic restriction on domestic LIFE projects.

For international projects coordinated by a Polish-registered applicant, NFOŚiGW costs are limited to actions conducted or producing effects in Poland by Polish-registered coordinator/co-beneficiaries. For a Polish co-beneficiary in a foreign project, only that entity’s Poland-based/effect costs qualify. Land acquisition support is limited to public-sector entities or acquisition on behalf of the State Treasury; coordinator costs for projects implemented outside Poland are ineligible.

Funding intensity, maximumFor qualifying close-to-market LIFE projects by non-public-sector applicants in LIFE 2025 and later calls, NFOŚiGW support is up to 15% of eligible project costs and combined NFOŚiGW plus EC grants are capped at 75%. The programme refers to the EC LIFE call definition of close-to-market.

15 percent of eligible project costs

Non-public applicant; EC-defined close-to-market project; NFOŚiGW component only. The combined ceiling is a separate typed fact.

Funding intensity, maximumCombined grant ceiling, close-to-market branch

75 percent of eligible project costs

Non-public applicants only, EC-defined close-to-market project; combined NFOŚiGW plus EC grant as a share of eligible project costs.

Funding intensity, maximumCombined grant ceiling, non-public standard branch

85 percent of eligible project costs

Non-public applicants in the standard branch, subject to separate special-nature/management and close-to-market branches; total NFOŚiGW plus EC grant as a share of eligible project costs.

Funding intensity, maximumCombined non-repayable ceiling for PJB route

100 percent of eligible project costs

Transfer-funded PJB tasks, and separately PJB co-beneficiaries only against their allocated eligible costs; combined non-repayable NFOŚiGW plus EC support.

Funding intensity, maximumCombined grant ceiling, public-finance-sector applicants

95 percent of eligible project costs

Public-finance-sector applicants; total NFOŚiGW plus EC grant as a share of eligible project costs; own-contribution rules still apply.

Funding intensity, maximumCombined grant ceiling, listed special branch

95 percent of eligible project costs

Non-public applicants only, for the programme-listed nature/climate-orientation/management-and-information branches; combined NFOŚiGW plus EC grant as a share of eligible project costs.

Funding intensity, maximumUp to 25% of eligible costs from NFOŚiGW and up to 85% combined NFOŚiGW plus EC grant for non-public-sector applicants in LIFE 2025 and 2026 calls, except the programme’s separate eligible nature/climate/management-information and close-to-market branches.

25 percent of eligible project costs

Non-public applicant in the standard branch; NFOŚiGW component only. Nature/climate/management and close-to-market exceptions and combined NFOŚiGW+EC ceilings are recorded separately.

Funding intensity, maximumFor funding public-budget-unit project tasks through a state-budget reserve transfer, the NFOŚiGW transfer may be up to 40% of eligible costs and combined non-repayable NFOŚiGW plus EC support up to 100%; public-budget-unit co-beneficiaries have the corresponding 40% / 100% branch, while other co-beneficiary applicants use the applicable applicant-specific branch.

40 percent of eligible project costs

Public-budget-unit tasks funded through the specified state-budget transfer, or the separately specified PJB co-beneficiary branch; NFOŚiGW component only. The combined ceilings are separately typed.

Funding intensity, maximumUp to 35% of eligible project costs for a public-finance-sector applicant, subject to a combined non-repayable NFOŚiGW plus European Commission grant ceiling of 95% of eligible costs and the LIFE own-contribution rules.

35 percent of eligible project costs

Public-finance-sector applicant; NFOŚiGW component only. The combined NFOŚiGW+EC ceiling is recorded as a separate typed fact.

Funding intensity, maximumFor non-public applicants in qualifying Nature and Biodiversity; qualifying nature-based climate/habitat; or Management and Information projects under LIFE calls from 2023 onward, NFOŚiGW support may be up to 35%, with total NFOŚiGW plus EC grant up to 95% of eligible costs. The climate branch is limited to the programme’s specified habitat/carbon-sink/adaptation orientation.

35 percent of eligible project costs

Only non-public applicant and programme-listed subprogramme/project-orientation conditions; NFOŚiGW component only. The combined ceiling is a separate typed fact.

• Call notice and type-specific schedule, LIFE grant intake 2026

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• Official NFOŚiGW LIFE grant call page, 2026

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• Priority programme Współfinansowanie Programu LIFE, 2026 intake applicable edition

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• Call regulations for LIFE grant intake 2026

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• Call application attachment list, LIFE grant intake 2026

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Opens

12 May 2026

Provider

NFOŚiGW · Ekspertyzy środowiskowe

Source

gov.pl

Checked

24 Oct 2026

Review status

Partial review

Independent QA

No published hold

Reviewed

23 Oct 2026