Deadline: 13-Apr-21
The Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area (PRIMA) has launched a call for proposals for the 2021 Management of Water for combating land degradation and desertification and promoting ecosystem restoration.
The proposals should identify actions, at different levels, to enhance the enabling environment and promote a wider uptake and implementation of sustainable land and water management options. This includes knowledge, capacity, socio-economic, such as high costs and lack of incentives, inappropriate policies and governance, access to finance and markets and absence of strategic planning among others constraints and barriers to be considered. Indeed, the proposals should set up a methodology for the participatory assessment of the impact of the implemented solutions, for instance through living lab approach, to ensure sustainability beyond the project lifespan.
Research on investment opportunities on innovative sustainable land and water management within the context of climate change should be considered. This includes the investigation of the cost and benefits (in terms of environmental, social, economic and climate-related) building up examples of business models to enhance investment, and organise the outcome of this work into a public domain available data to improve the investment on sustainable land and water management.
Funding Information
- PRIMA considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU in the range of EUR 2.75 million and with a duration of 36 months would allow this specific challenges to be addressed appropriately.
Expected Impacts
- Restoring degraded landscapes: improve the functionality of agro-ecosystems pastures and natural Agro-Ecosystems landscapes.
- Promotion of proven and cost-effective solutions to land, water (water quality and quantity) and agro-ecosystem degradation.
- Promote the scaling-out of sustainable management options supported by an appropriate enabling environment to combat land degradation, enhance productivity and livelihoods.
- Contribution to the development of scientific decision-support tools and policy solutions to land and water degradation challenges.
- Promote public and private investment opportunities for the adoption of sustainable land and management practices.
- Decrease land degradation as a strategy to avoid migration and to increase productive livelihood, to ensure food security, and to contribute to improving employment, especially of women and youths.
Eligible Countries
Legal entities established in the following countries and territories are eligible to receive funding through PRIMA grants:
- The PRIMA Participating States: 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), having 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.
Eligibility Criteria
The following entities are eligible to receive funding through PRIMA grants:
- Any legal entity created under Union law
- Any international European interest organization
- For these two types of entities, their place of establishment is not relevant for eligibility for funding.
- Any international organisation (IO) OR any legal entity established in countries not listed above as PS will be eligible for funding provided that at least one of the following conditions is fulfilled:
- participation is deemed to be essential for carrying out the action;
- such funding is provided under a bilateral scientific and technological agreement or any other arrangement between the Union and the international organisation or, for entities established in a country which is not a Participating State, the country in which the legal entity is established.
For more information, visit https://prima-med.org/call-for-proposal/thematic-area-1-water-management-2021/
