This Call for Proposals concerns proposals submitted to the Call: Section 2 of PRIMA Programme, specifically in the following thematic areas:

1. Thematic Area 1-Water management: Topic 2.1.1 (RIA) Low cost, lean solutions for enhancing irrigation efficiency of smallscale farms
2. Thematic Area 2-Farming systems: Topic 2.2.1 (RIA) Re-design the agro-livelihood systems to ensure resilience.
3. Thematic Area 3-Agrofood chain: Topic 2.3.1 (RIA) New optimisation models of the agro food supply chain system to fair price for consumers and reasonable profit share for farmers

The project proposals that will be selected for funding within the framework of this Call for Proposals are implemented by Transnational Consortia. Each consortium partner is funded by its national/regional Funding Agency according to its national/regional participation rules and procedures.

In addition, the PRIMA Joint Programme applies its own rules and procedures for Proposal submission, evaluation and selection, specified in the PRIMA Call Text and Supporting Information – Call Section 2, and in the PRIMA 2020 – Guidelines for Applicants – Section 2, which can be found on the Network’s website (http://prima-med.org/).

For the present Call the following specific conditions, which are not defined in the RESTART 2016-2020 Work Programme, apply:

RIF will support activities for all the topics specified in PRIMA Call Text and Supporting Information- Call Section 2.

Duration of the project: 36 months.

It is noted that, at the contract preparation phase the Coordinators of the Cypriot Consortia in the selected Proposals will be requested, to submit additional information and complete forms concerning the role and the activities that the Cypriot Consortium will undertake during the project implementation.

Proposals that will be submitted under this call must be submitted centrally to PRIMA by April 21, 2021 but also to the National Funding Agencies of each partner in the proposal. For Cyprus, the competent National Funding Agency for this call is the Research and Innovation Foundation and proposals must be submitted by April 28, 2021.