LIFE: Stepping up to save bugs

Event description

Free online event, booking required. Invertebrates provide vital ecosystem services such as pollination, soil creation and water filtration. Yet despite their importance, invertebrate populations are rapidly declining across Europe due to loss of natural habitats, agricultural intensification, pollution, pesticide use, invasive alien species and climate change.

In 2020 as well as in the following years, the LIFE programme hopes to receive more applications for funding on invertebrate conservation, including those implementing the EU Pollinators Initiative. We invite participants from NGOs, research organisations, public authorities, and conservation bodies keen to better understand LIFE funding opportunities on invertebrates, as well as beneficiaries from current or previous LIFE projects on invertebrates to join us.