From 2001 to 2005 Timesis, with others six European companies of the ASTRALE consortium led by Soges SpA of Turin, carried out on behalf of the European Commission the functions of External Monitoring Group for the LIFE-Environment Projects.

From July 2005, with the others ten European companies that constitute the European Economic Interest Group (EEIG) ASTRALE (http://www.astrale.org), Timesis is in charge also of monitoring LIFE Nature and LIFE Thirds Countries Projects.

Since January 2009 Timesis competences extend also to the new LIFE+ Projects, including the additional strands "Biodiversity" and "Information".

The territorial competence of Timesis includes Italy, Malta and Slovenia. 

A group of professionals (geologists, biologists, agronomists, engineers), specialized in the several disciplines contemplated by the LIFE programme, closely follows the performances by the financed and approved projects and, in close collaboration with the competent offices of the Ministry of the Environment, it provides assistance to the European Commission, LIFE Unit of the DG Environment.

The main activities consist of:

• Monitoring of the Projects development (both for the technical and the financial aspects), that is to verify punctually that the projects are implemented as foreseen;
• Assistance to the persons in charge of project implementation, to solve management problems, for the good conduction of the activities and the reports to the Commission.

Altogether, from 1992 to the 2006, the European Commission co-financed in Italy 235 LIFE-Environment projects and 160 LIFE-Nature projects.

LIFE ENVIRONMENT co-financed Projects	LIFE-NATURE co-financed Projects

The  LIFE Programme has officially been concluded with the 2006 projects. The new financial instrument of the European Commission for the Environment is called LIFE PLUS.

The table hereunder summarises the number of projects approved and co-financed by the European Commission in Italy, Slovenia and Malta form 2007 to 2010 within the three strands of the LIFE+ Programme. Most of them were submitted from Italy. The total number of approved projects until 2010 sums up to 181. The following graphs depict the distribution of projects in the three countries per year and per strand.