LIFE is the main European Commission funding mechanism for improving the state of the environment in the European Union.
Particip GmbH was responsible for the management of the NEEMO EEIG. Particip provided the Administrative Team, the financial management, and one of the two Managing Directors of NEEMO EEIG, and was therefore responsible for ensuring an effective operation of business activities and the compliance with contractual requirements. The overall management tasks included budgeting, accounting and controlling, as well as guaranteeing high team performance and quality assurance.
The general objective of LIFE is to contribute to the implementation, updating and development of EU environmental and climate policy and legislation by co-financing projects with European added value. The general objectives of LIFE shall be pursued through two sub-programmes:

• Environment consisting of three strands; nature and biodiversity, environment and resource efficiency, governance and information
• Climate Action consisting of three strands; climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation, governance and information

The general objectives of LIFE are:

• To contribute to the shift towards a resource-efficient, low-carbon and climate resilient economy, to the protection and improvement of the quality of the environment and to halting and reversing biodiversity loss, including the support of the Natura 2000 network and tackling the degradation of ecosystems;
• To improve the development, implementation and enforcement of Union environmental and climate change policy and legislation, and to act as a catalyst for, and promote, the integration and mainstreaming of environmental and climate objectives into other Union policies and public and private sector practice, including by increasing the public and private sector’s capacity;
• To support better environmental and climate governance at all levels, including better involvement of civil society, NGOs and local actors;
• To support the implementation of the 7th Environment Action Programme.

The NEEMO EEIG provided about 160 long-term experts specialised in monitoring and evaluation, in communication activities and in thematic fields related to EU environmental policy. The experts monitored more than 1000 projects that are financed via the LIFE instrument.