The Environment Expertise Fund aims at fostering specific and relevant approaches to promote environmental protection and sustainable development. The Fund supports small projects (size: CHF 30'000 to CHF 200'000) related to planning capacities in public administration and facilitating knowledge transfer in the field of nature conservations and landscape protection, environment protection, climate and air protection, economical and environmental policy. The direct beneficiaries will be the selected small project applicants (NGOs, research institutions, regions, municipalities).