On the 17^th December, new call for proposals were lunched under Prima, the Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area.

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.

19 euro-Mediterranean countries are committed to the initiative: 11 EU Member States (France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Croatia, Greece , Spain, Luxembourg, Slovenia Cyprus, Malta) and 8 extra EU countries (Turkey, Egypt, Israel, Algeria, Tunisia, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco)

PRIMA programme activities will be implemented as following:

·       Section 1: Actions and activities organised, managed and funded by PRIMA-IS5

·       Section 2: Activities selected following transnational open and competitive calls for proposals organised by PRIMA-IS and funded by the national funding bodies of PS (providing financial support mainly in the form of grants)

In section 1, actions are evaluated, selected and funded in line with the Rules for Participation of Horizon 2020 and are centrally managed by the PRIMA-IS. Grant agreements are to be signed with PRIMA-IS on the basis of the H2020 Model Grant Agreement. Section 1 Actions will encompass topics under the three thematic areas (water management; farming system and food value chain) and topics focusing specifically in the interdependencies (nexus) among them, under an additional thematic area devoted to the nexus theme.

Call: Section 1 – Management of Water 2019

Thematic area: Management of water

Topic: Topic 1.1.1 Sustainable groundwater management in water-stressed Mediterranean areas

Type of action: RIA Research and Innovation action

Total indicative amount allocated to this call: EUR 6.4 million

Opening date: 17 December 2018

Deadline

Stage 1 Pre-proposals – 28^th February, 2019 (17:00h CET)
Stage 2 Full proposals – 16^th July, 2019 (17:00h CET)

Call: Section 1 – Farming Systems 2019

Thematic area: Farming systems

Topic: Topic 1.2.1 Conserving water and soil in Mediterranean dry-farming, smallholder agriculture

Type of action: RIA Research and Innovation action

Total indicative amount allocated to this call: EUR 4.5 million

Opening date: 17 December 2018

Deadline

Stage 1 Pre-proposals – 28^th February, 2019 (17:00h CET)
Stage 2 Full proposals – 16^th July, 2019 (17:00h CET)

Call: Section 1 – Farming Systems 2019

Thematic area: Farming systems

Topic: Topic 1.2.2 Sustainability and competitiveness of Mediterranean greenhouse and intensive Horticulture

Type of action: IA Innovation action

Total indicative amount allocated to this call: EUR 6.4 million

Opening date: 17 December 2018

Deadline

Stage 1 Pre-proposals – 28^th February, 2019 (17:00h CET)
Stage 2 Full proposals – 16^th July, 2019 (17:00h CET)

Call: Section 1 – Agro-food Value Chain 2019

Thematic area: Agro-Food value chain

Topic: Topic 1.3.1 Implementation of analytical tools and digital technology to achieve traceability, authenticity control of traditional Mediterranean foods.

Type of action: Innovation action (IA)

Total indicative amount allocated to this call: EUR 6.4 million

Opening date: 17 December 2018

Deadline

Stage 1 Pre-proposals – 28^th February, 2019 (17:00h CET)
Stage 2 Full proposals – 16^th July, 2019 (17:00h CET)

Call: Section 1 – Nexus 2019 RIA

Thematic area: Nexus

Topic: Topic 1.4.1 Assessing social, technical and economic benefits of a cross-sectoral governance of the Water-Ecosystems-Food Nexus

Type of action: RIA Research and Innovation action

Total indicative amount allocated to this call: EUR 3.2 million

Opening date: 17 December 2018

Deadline

Stage 1 Pre-proposals – 28^th February, 2019 (17:00h CET)
Stage 2 Full proposals – 16^th July, 2019 (17:00h CET)

Call: Section 1 – Nexus 2019 CSA

Thematic area: Nexus

Topic: Topic 1.4.2: Platform for mapping and capitalisation of results and best practices from past and on-going projects related to farming system, water and food in the Mediterranean Area

Type of action: (CSA) Coordination and Support Action

Total indicative amount allocated to this call: € 1.1 million

Opening date: 17 December 2018

Deadline

Single Stage Full proposals – 28^th February, 2019 (17:00h CET)

Call: Section 2 – Multi-topic 2019

Thematic area: Agro-Food value chain, Farming systems, Management of water

Topic: Transnational call funded by Participating States

Type of action: RIA Research and Innovation action

Total indicative amount allocated to this call: EUR 34.9 million

Opening date: 17 December 2018

Deadline

Stage 1 Pre-proposals – 21^st February, 2019 (17:00h CET)
Stage 2 Full proposals – 4^th September, 2019 (17:00h CET)

Further information and details are available on the PRIMA official website