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19/03/2026
INTER LIFE 2026: First meeting point of the LIFE community in Spain on replication and sustainability
The National Contact Point of the LIFE Programme of the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (MITECO) organised on 11 March in Madrid the first INTER LIFE 2026 event, conceived as a space for exchanging experiences and an ideas laboratory to promote the replication and sustainability of LIFE 2021–2027 projects. Technical teams from the Barcelona Provincial Council, coordinator of Life eCOadapt50, and the Tarragona Provincial Council also attended.

The event brought together 70 organisations. Author: Life eCOadapt50

The meeting —held at MITECO’s headquarters in Madrid— gathered nearly one hundred people from more than 70 organisations (public administrations, universities, companies, NGOs, consortia and local entities), with a majority of participants coming from outside Madrid (≈70%). The goal: to lay the foundations for a LIFE community in Spain, build connections and facilitate mutual learning between projects and territories.

Content and dynamics of the event

The session opened with an institutional welcome from the LIFE Contact Point, which framed the evolution of the programme and its current challenges. This was followed by an international keynote by Mr. José Paulino from the National Contact Point (NCP) of the LIFE Programme in Portugal, who presented the Portuguese experience as a benchmark in transfer and replication, offering concrete guidance on how to extend results to new territories and transfer learnings to other thematic areas.

The programme continued with two panel discussions: the first focused on replication (geographical dissemination, adaptation to diverse contexts and success conditions), and the second on the sustainability of results (governance, blended financing and post‑project continuity). Between the two, a coffee break with networking activities facilitated direct contact between project teams from the different LIFE sub‑programmes, generating valuable conversations and potential collaboration pathways. The event concluded with a summary of lessons learned and proposals for next steps to consolidate a stable LIFE community in Spain.

Participation of eCOadapt50

The LIFE eCOadapt50 project was represented by technical staff from the Barcelona Provincial Council (DIBA), project coordinator, and from the Tarragona Provincial Council (DIPTA), responsible for WP10 on replicability and sustainability.

Attendance at the event enabled us to contrast our approach with other LIFE initiatives, share progress and open new lines of joint work, including methodology exchanges and potential replication pilots.

This first edition of INTER LIFE marks the beginning of a space to share experiences, create synergies, facilitate contact between entities interested in collaborating in future projects, and accelerate the transfer of results to new thematic areas and territories.

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