the LIFE ex-post evaluation, the cases studies are illustrative of identified impacts that cannot be fully attributed to the programme and cannot be quantified. The case studies strive to collect qualitative evidence gathered to reach conclusions through triangulation along the programme intervention logic. Case studies are a good solution for a proportionate analysis that can foster a grounded understanding of the impacts triggered by the programme and give specific examples of the links between a project intervention and the observed impacts. Specifically, this case study strives to illustrate the catalytic effect generated by the LIFE funded projects and illustrate by means of representative projects the way it happened, under which conditions and by which actions. The catalytic effect is not easy to measure, since it goes beyond the direct beneficiaries of the projects and often are realized well after the end of the project. However, the catalytic effect is a key component of the architecture of the programme and of its intervention logic, being a mechanism to help all countries and all sectors to progress toward a green transition. For this case study some projects have been selected for being representative of the short and medium-term catalytic effect that could be identified concretely, demonstrating that the typical LIFE activities of funded projects - that are specific to the needs on the ground and of relatively small size (in average with an EU contribution of EUR 4,862,956), produce concrete catalytic results and contribute to generate impacts that can lead to a change in the EU toward the green transition.
Authors
Bio Innovation Service, Centre for European Policy Studies, Directorate-General for Environment, European Commission, Institut National de l'Environment, RPA Europe Srl, RWI Leibniz Institut fur Wirtschaftsforfchung, Sofies SA, VVA
- Catalogue number
- KH-01-24-000-EN-N
- Citation
- European Commission: Directorate-General for Environment, Contribution of LIFE on trigging replication or transfer and interventions achieving synergies with or mainstreamed into other Union funding programmes – Support to the ex-post evaluation of LIFE 2014-2020 , Publications Office of the European Union, 2024, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2779/7220737
- DOI
- https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2779/7220737
- ISBN
- 978-92-68-20425-2
- Pages
- 34
- Published in
- Belgium
- Themes
- Environment — Ecology
Table of Contents
- Contribution of LIFE on trigging 1
- Union funding programmes 1
- Contribution of LIFE on trigging 3
- Union funding programmes 3
- 2.1 Contribution to replication and transfer of project results ....................... 9 5
- 2.2 Contribution to synergies and complementarity with other funding sources ................................................................................................ 10 5
- 2.3 Leverage of additional funding ............................................................. 11 5
- 2.4 Contribution to improve policy development and implementation in the long term awareness development and networking ............................ 11 5
- 3.1 Rationale of the case study.................................................................. 14 5
- 3.2 Selected projects and their representativeness ................................... 14 5
- 4.1 Project 1 .............................................................................................. 19 5
- 4.2 Project 2 .............................................................................................. 20 5
- 4.3 Project 3 .............................................................................................. 20 5
- 4.4 Project 4 .............................................................................................. 21 5
- 4.5 Project 5 .............................................................................................. 22 5
- 6.1 Relevance ............................................................................................ 25 5
- 6.2 Effectiveness ....................................................................................... 25 5
- 6.3 Efficiency ............................................................................................. 26 6
- 6.4 Coherence ........................................................................................... 26 6
- 6.5 EU added value ................................................................................... 27 6
- Introduction 7
- 1. Key insights on LIFE catalytic effect 8
- 2. Conclusions and input to the ex-post 9
- 2.1 Contribution to replication and transfer of project results 9
- 2.2 Contribution to synergies and complementarity with other funding sources 10
- 2.3 Leverage of additional funding 11
- 2.4 Contribution to improve policy development and implementation in the long term awareness development and networking 11
- 3. Overview of the context and the selected 14
- 3.1 Rationale of the case study 14
- 3.2 Selected projects and their representativeness 14
- 4. Narrative of the chain of change 19
- 4.1 Project 1 19
- 4.2 Project 2 20
- 4.3 Project 3 20
- 4.4 Project 4 21
- 4.5 Project 5 22
- 5. Recorded impacts of interventions on the 23
- LIFE programme 23
- 6. Input to the ex-post evaluation 25
- 6.1 Relevance 25
- 6.2 Effectiveness 25
- 6.3 Efficiency 26
- 6.4 Coherence 26
- 6.5 EU added value 27
- 7. Conclusions 29
- 8. Annexes 30
