The attached document is the Operational Plan of the LIFE Task Force. The Plan describes the necessary actions for the recruitment of the group and its operation. It also describes the procedures and conditions of its smooth operation, as well as the timing of the foreseen actions to be taken by its members.
During the period from May to December 2016 and in the framework of the establishment and operation of the Greek LIFE Task Force (GR LTF), information and awareness activities were implemented, targeting stakeholders and potential applicants of the LIFE Programme. The scheduled action’s start date was for July 2016 but the activities begun earlier in May 2016, so as to cover for the information needs of the applicants right after the LIFE Programme’s Call for 2016.
Specifically, during the aforementioned period, two Info Days were organised, one in June and one in July. These Info Days followed the announcement of the 2016 LIFE Programme Call from the official Programme’s website on the 19 th of May. The events were organised and implemented by the Green Fund under the auspicious of the National Contact Point for the Environment Sub-Programme of LIFE in Greece. The two events were attended by a number of 243 participants in total, that were members of private and public bodies, NGO’s, academic institutions, local and regional authorities etc.
During the period February – December 2016, and in the context of the establishment and operation of the Greek LIFE Task Force (GR LTF), the team has realised a number of activities in relation to the synergies between the LIFE Programme and other European programmes.
In the course of the above-mentioned period, the initial contact with the main National Focal Points (NFPs) of other programmes has been made, while the team has identified the programmes that are thematically close to the LIFE projects’ content and has started working on the cooperation at a bilateral level. To the present, the activities of the team refer to the participation in multilateral working groups aiming at the joint provision of information, mainly at a regional level (activities coordinated by the Hellenic Agency for Local Development and Local Government), to the bilateral collaboration with the Horizon 2020 and the ESIF Operational Programmes, and to the participation in focus and working groups of European and/or macro- regional strategies and programmes. These activities are expected to continue in the next period, while new concrete collaboration actions will be added to the existing ones, including the broadening of synergies to other relevant European and international programmes.