On January 25^th, 2023 PRIMA - Partnerships for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area launched a call for project outlines (10 pages). The overall objective of the PRIMA programme is to build research and innovation capacities and to develop knowledge and common innovative solutions for agro-food systems, to make them sustainable, and for integrated water provision and management in the Mediterranean area, to make those systems and that provision and management more climate resilient, efficient, cost-effective and environmentally and socially sustainable, and to contribute to solving water scarcity, food security, nutrition, health, well-being and migration problems upstream.

It is possible to submit proposals in two sections with three topics each:

• Thematic Area 1 – Water management
• Thematic Area 2 – Farming systems
• Thematic Area 3 – Agri-food value chain

There are differences in funding within the sections. Section 1 is funded according to the criteria of the 8th EU Research Framework Program Horizon 2020, Section 2 is funded by national funding agencies according to the respective national criteria (for Germany the BMBF via the Projektträger Karlsruhe). Applications in Section 2 in particular have a very high funding rate of around 30 %.

Deadline for submission of pre-proposals:

• March 22^nd, 2023 (Section 1) and
• March 29^th, 2023 (Section 2).

Joint projects of at least three partners from three countries, with at least one participating EU member state and at least one non-EU member state from the Mediterranean region. After positive evaluation, full-proposals will be submitted in September.

Overview about sections and topics:

• Section 1, Topic 1.1.1: Integrated adaptive wastewater management plans in the Mediterranean region (IA)
• Section 1, Topic 1.2.1:  Actions to restore and return degraded lands in the Mediterranean region into productive agroecosystems (IA)
• Section 1, Topic 1.3.1: Increasing resilience of agri-food supply chain (cereal) in the MENA region (RIA)
• Section 1, Topic 1.4.1: Accelerate adaptation and mitigation to climate change in the Mediterranean region by deploying WEFE nexus solutions (IA)
• Section 2, Topic 2.1.1: New governance models to define best practices for sustainable water management and conflict mitigation (RIA)
• Section 2, Topic 2.2.1: A step toward carbon-neutral farms: coupling renewable energy sources with circular farming systems (RIA)
• Section 2, Topic 2.3.1: Assessing novel antimicrobial food packaging and coating materials to reduce food waste to improve safety in the Mediterranean food supply chain (RIA)

Participating countries:

EU member states: Croatia, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Portugal, Spain, Slovenia
Non EU countries: Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, Turkey

Further information:

https://prima-med.org/submit-your-project/

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