On January 25th, 2024 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 2 different funding sections.

Deadline for submission of pre-proposals: 02.04.2024 (Section 1) and 04.04.2024 (Section 2).

Joint projects of at least 3 partners from three countries, with at least 1 participating EU member state and at least 1 non-EU member state from the Mediterranean region. After positive evaluation, full-proposals will be submitted in September.

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 success rate of around 25 %.

Overview about sections and topics:

• Section 1: Farming Systems in the Nexus (RIA)
• Section 1:  Food Value-chain in the Nexus (RIA)
• Section 1: Water Management in the Nexus (RIA)
• Section 2, Water management in the Nexus: Effective water accounting approaches under crisis conditions: climate change and external shocks (RIA)
• Section 2, Farming systems in the Nexus: Revitalizing agroforestry practices for sustainable land use and climate resilience in the Mediterranean Region (RIA)
• Section 2, Food value chain in the Nexus: Leveraging urban and local food systems for sustainable food systems transformation (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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