Deadline: 17 April 2018
The Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area (PRIMA) has launched its calls for research and innovation proposals to mobilize the Euro-Mediterranean scientific communities, stakeholders and private entities and to support a wide range of research and innovation projects expected to produce a socio-economic impact in the near future.
Through Resarch Collaborative Projects PRIMA aims to build research and innovation capacities and to develop knowledge and common innovative solutions for agro-food systems, and water provision in the Mediterranean area to make them sustainable, in line with the UN 2030 agenda for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Participants to these calls will have to submit a scientific pre- proposal (10 pages) to the PRIMA Foundation that will be evaluated in a peer review process according to the H2020 standard. The successful projects will be funded directly by the PRIMA Foundation through the signature of a grant agreement between the selected consortia and the PRIMA Foundation. The criteria for the evaluation and selection of the proposals will be done according to H2020 rules.
Topics
- Water reuse and water desalination for agricultural and food production: The scope of the call is to provide end-users with new more economically feasible water treatment technologies (such as seawater desalinization) taking into account the main environmental, socio-economic and legal and/or institutional constraints regulating the adoption of these technologies.
- Improving the sustainability of Mediterranean agro-ecosystems: The scope of the call is to develop Mediterranean innovative cropping and livestock systems including inland aquaculture, able to cope with limited resources and environmental constrains while enhancing food production stability over time and ensuring a production of high quality agricultural outputs that will allow increase in farmers’ income and preserve agro-ecosystems integrity and services.
- Implementing innovation in Mediterranean Agro-food chains by smallholders and SMEs: The scope of the call is to foster adoption of technological and organizational innovations by smallholders and SME able to meet the needs of the food market, food security needs, taking advantage of the opportunities given by Mediterranean values, heritage and biodiversity. This is key to address Horizontal and vertical fragmentation of the Mediterranean value chains and the lack of integration among the main food system actors.
Note: Detailed supporting information about the challenge, scope and the expected impacts for each topic is provided in the guidelines for applicants that is available on the PRIMA website.
Grant Information
Total indicative amount allocated to this call is EUR 6.1 million.
Eligibility Criteria
- Legal entities established in the following countries and territories will be eligible to receive funding through PRIMA grants:
- The PRIMA Participating States (PS) :
- The following Member States (MS) of the European Union (EU): Croatia, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Portugal, Spain, Slovenia. It includes the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCT) linked to these Member States.
- The following Third Countries associated to Horizon 2020 (AC): Israel, Tunisia, and Turkey.
- The following Third Countries not associated to Horizon 2020 (TC), upon condition that they have concluded international agreements for scientific and technological cooperation setting out the terms and conditions of their participation in PRIMA: Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Morocco.
- The PRIMA Participating States (PS) :
- Participation of private entities (in their diversity, e.g. including companies/enterprises, SMEs, start-ups, non-profit organisations, NGOs…) will be encouraged in the research consortia, jointly with public research organisations, universities and end-users.
How to Apply
Applicants can apply via given website.
For more information, please visit PRIMA Section 1 Calls 2018.
