Programme Category
Programme Name
Programme Description
PRIMA – Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area is the most ambitious joint programme to be undertaken in the frame of Euro-Mediterranean cooperation.
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.
Call
Summary
The topics that have opened under the present call are the following:
- Thematic Area 1-Water management: Topic 2.1.1-2022 (RIA) Prevent and reduce land and water salinization and pollution due to agri-food activities.
- Thematic Area 2-Farming systems: Topic 2.2.1-2022 (RIA) Improving the sustainability of agro-pastoralism in the Mediterranean Region under the context of climate change.
- Thematic Area 3-Food value chain: Topic 2.3.1-2022 (RIA) Enabling the transition to healthy and sustainable dietary behaviour
Detailed Call Description
Thematic Area 1-Water management: Topic 2.1.1-2022 (RIA)
Prevent and reduce land and water salinization and pollution due to agri-food activities. Both agriculture and food industry practices, potentially determining contamination of surrounding water bodies, should reduce the risk of water pollution and salinization. Under this general aim, the specificities of the prevailing Mediterranean soils and environmental conditions should be considered. This includes the detailed study of salinity management, which often involves additional watering to displace salts from the root zone, creating a management conflict in water and soils to reduce nitrates leaching.
Thematic Area 2-Farming systems: Topic 2.2.1-2022 (RIA)
Improving the sustainability of agro-pastoralism in the Mediterranean Region under the context of climate change. Proposals, building on good pastoral practices in the Mediterranean Area, should promote an enabling environment for viable agro-pastoral farming and rational use of rangelands: land, water and biodiversity management (including local animal breeds), Carbon, Nitrogen and overall GHG footprint. Agroforestry practices could also be considered for supporting pastoral and agropastoral livestock production ranging from tree preservation to more intensively planted and managed systems. Proposals should also consider products´ quality in terms of consumers’ health and safety, provision of socio-ecosystem services, questions of social, gender and generational dynamics.
Thematic Area 3-Food value chain: Topic 2.3.1-2022 (RIA)
Enabling the transition to healthy and sustainable dietary behaviour. Human health is deeply affected by dietary patterns, and most of the non-transmissible and chronic diseases, which currently affect worldwide populations, are directly linked to unhealthy diets. Under this general challenge, it is of utmost importance to (i) identify, understand and measure the factors influencing the adoption of healthy dietary behaviours in the Mediterranean communities, and (ii) to implement tailored strategies to help people of all ages to shift towards Mediterranean healthy dietary behaviours. These two tasks should be facilitated by combining at least two approaches, such as increasing awareness of the general benefits of the Mediterranean diets at all-age levels and increasing the availability and accessibility of highly nutritional, healthy, sustainable low processed Mediterranean food in the markets.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
The maximum funding amounts to € 200,000 per project per Cypriot consortium.
Thematic Categories
- Environment and Climate Change
- Water - Management of Water Resources
Eligibility for Participation
- Large Enterprises
Eligibility For Participation Notes
Legal entities established in the following countries and territories will be eligible to receive funding through PRIMA grants: Algeria, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Malta, Morocco, Portugal, Spain, Slovenia, Tunisia and Turkey.
Additionally to the standard eligibility conditions, each participant in a bidding consortium must check their own eligibility for participation/funding in accordance to their national regulations. For Cyprus the National Funding Agency is the Research & Innovation Foundation (RIF).
Consortium requirements
At least three legal entities established in three different countries considered as the Participating States (see above). Each of the three must be established in a different country considered to be PRIMA PS by submission deadline under the relevant call, out of which:
- at least one must be established in an EU Member State or a third country associated to Horizon 2020 and not being a Mediterranean Partner Country (MPC); and
- at least one must be established in a third country bordering the Mediterranean Sea (MPC)
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
National Contact Point(s)
Research and Innovation Foundation
George Prokopiou
Email: gprokopiou@research.org.cy
Τel: +357 22205068
(Publish Date: 26/01/2022-for internal use only)
EU Contact Point
For questions related to this call for proposals, please contact Fabrice Dentressangle at fabrice.dentressangle@prima-med.org