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.
PRIMA will award a monetary recognition prize dedicated to promoting scientific research and demonstrating the economic and social benefits of the Water Energy Food and Ecosystem (WEFE) Nexus in the Mediterranean Area, the PRIMA WEFE Nexus Award.
The PRIMA WEFE Nexus Award is assigned to “research teams and practitioners” that have devised and demonstrated the successful implementation of combined management practices of water, energy, food and ecosystem resources at the local or regional scale in the Mediterranean Region. The award enables teams to showcase their best practices and achievements.
PRIMA will award two winners and each of the two winners will receive a monetary prize and high visibility in the form of public interest and increased media coverage.
The contest is open to all legal entities (i.e. natural or legal persons, including international organisations) or groups of legal entities. The demonstrated practices must be implemented in the Mediterranean Region.
Joint applications by a group of participants are admitted. In this case, the participants must appoint a “lead participant” to represent them towards PRIMA. The participants will be jointly responsible and must all fulfil and respect the conditions set out in these Rules of Contest.
Applications must be submitted by the (lead) participant via the https://aap.agencerecherche.fr/.
Research and Innovation Foundation
Competent RIF Officer:
Savvia Alexandraki
Email: salexandraki@research.org.cy
Τelephone: +357 22205070
WEFE Nexus Award:
Ali Rhouma
Email: ali.rhouma@prima-med.org