Division 5.1.4 Capacity-building projects pursuant to Article 18(f) of the LIFE Regulation

Capacity-building projects provide financial support to activities required to build the capacity of Member States, including LIFE national or regional contact points, with a view to enabling Member States to participate more effectively in the LIFE programme.

Interventions may include, but shall not be limited to:

• recruitment of new personnel and training for LIFE national or regional contact points,

• facilitating exchanges of experience and best practices and promoting the dissemination and use of results of projects under the LIFE programme,

• ‘train the trainer’ approaches,

• exchange and secondment programmes between public authorities in Member States, in particular ‘best in class’ exchange activities.

The interventions covered by the capacity-building plan may include the procurement of experts to address ad hoc gaps in technical and process capability, but may not include the procurement of experts whose primary function is the drafting of proposals for submission under the annual calls for proposals.