Due to the low number of applications, detailed workshops for Climate Action and Nature are cancelled. You are invited to join us at a detailed workshop for the Environment, which will take place on Thursday, May 18, 2017 in Bled.

On 28 April 2017, the European Commission published the 2017 LIFE Call for project proposals for traditional, preparatory, integrated and technical assistance projects from both LIFE sub-programmes; for Environment and Climate Action. The total grant budget for this year’s call is over € 373 million, of which more than € 290 million is for sub-programme…

The first week in April was reserved for a study visit to our western neighbours, Italian National Contact Point. In order to get most out of the visit for potential Slovenian applicants and partners, part of the visit were also meetings with beneficiaries of seven Italian LIFE projects, who shared their experience with us.

At the 25th anniversary of the LIFE programme, the best LIFE projects for the entire duration of the programme will be selected. Among the finalists in the priority area Nature and Biodiversity is also Slovenian project LIFE + SloWolf. You can also contribute to their victory by voting through the Facebook page of the LIFE…

The LIFE CBI SI team responded to the invitation of regional development agencies and organized last month a series of LIFE workshops for companies in various Slovene towns and presented the opportunities offered by the LIFE programme to 33 Slovenian companies.

In February and March, the applicants were informed about the results of the first phase of the 2016 LIFE Call selection process. Slovenia did a great job, since seven of the 14 project proposals submitted passed to the second phase.

In the spring months, a new exhibition was set up in the lobby of the Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning presenting LIFE project ReBirth – Promotion of the recycling of industrial waste and building rubble for the construction industry. The purpose of the three-year project, which ended on December 31, 2014, was to…

You are invited to watch the documentary of the project LIVEDRAVA entitled “Drava River – Nature’s Gift for Every Generation”, which will be broadcast on the programmes of TV Slovenia in the first week of April.

The LIFE DINALP BEAR project team organized an international photography contest entitled FINDING BEARINGS, which will be held until April 20, 2017.

In the past week, the Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning carried out for the first time the LIFE writer’s workshop and the LIFE workshop for companies under the renewed programme. The first was attended by 50 participants, while 10 companies participated in the workshop for companies in Murska Sobota. Due to great interest,…