PRIMA PROGRAM: Water Management, Farming Systems, Agri-Food Value Chain

PRIMA PROGRAM: Water Management, Farming Systems, Agri-Food Value Chain

The 2024 call for the PRIMA Program (Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area), which will support multilateral projects on water management, food systems and agri-food value chain themes in the Mediterranean region, is open to applications.

 

Thematic Area

Field

Budget

Water Management in Nexus

Su, Enerji, Gıda, Ekosistemler (WEFE) Bağlantı Noktası yaklaşımının uygulanmasıyla Akdeniz sulu tarımının sürdürülebilirliği

EUR 9.2 M

Farming Systems in Nexus

Transformative adaptation of Mediterranean dry farming systems using water harvesting technique to address extreme drought in arid and semi-arid environments

EUR 9,6 M

Agri-Food Value Chain in Nexus

Developing cost-effective and sustainable technologies adapted to Mediterranean Food Systems to decrease food loss and waste

EUR 9,1 M

 

 

Eligible Applicants:

The consortium that will take part in the international project calls to be opened within the scope of the PRIMA should include researchers participating from at least 4 different legal entities from at least 3 different countries.

  • At least 1 legal entity must be established in an EU Member State or a third country associated to Horizon 2020 and not being a Mediterranean Partner Country (MPC): Germany, France, Portugal, Croatia, South Cyprus, Greece, Spain, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, and Slovenia.
  • At least 2 different legal entities* must be established in a third country bordering the Mediterranean Sea (MPC): Türkiye, Algeria, Jordan, Israel, Tunisia, Morocco, Lebanon and Egypt.
  • At least 1 legal entity must be established in one of the PRIMA participating countries.

 

*The 2 different legal entities may be from the same or different third country which is bordering the Mediterranean Sea (MPC): Türkiye, Algeria, Jordan, Israel, Tunisia, Morocco, Lebanon and Egypt.

  

Projects to be Supported:

Projects to be supported within the scope of PRIMA Program are divided into 2 Sections.

 

  • Project proposals submitted under Section 1 will be supported by PRIMA allocated funding from the HORIZON 2020 Programme. Applications under Section 1 of the PRIMA Program must be made only to PRIMA.

 

Deadline for Stage 1 (PRIMA): April 2, 2024

Deadline for Stage 2 (PRIMA): September 25, 2024

 

Please click here for detailed information and international applications.

 

  • Project proposals submitted within the scope of Section 2, will be supported by the funds that the national funding agencies have committed to PRIMA, without the contribution of the EU. In the framework of the Section 2, in addition to the joint application to the PRIMA Program, research teams in project consortia are required to apply to their national funding agencies.

 

Deadline for Stage 1 (PRIMA): April 4, 2024

Deadline for Stage 2 (PRIMA): September 26, 2024

Deadline for National Application (Stage 1 – TÜBİTAK): April 18, 2024

Deadline for E-Signature (Stage 1 - TÜBİTAK): April 25, 2024

 

Please click here for detailed information and international rules.

 

Research teams that will take part in the consortiums from Turkey will make their national applications to TÜBİTAK. Please click here for online application portal.

 

Project proposals to be submitted from Türkiye within the scope of the PRIMA Program will be supported within the scope of 1071 Program. 

  

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