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PRIMA – Section 2 – Multitopics 2021

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National Grant Schemes

Programme Name

Research & Innovation Foundation Programmes

Programme Description

In this section you may find information on National Schemes published by the Cyprus Research and Innovation Foundation (formerly know as the Research Promotion Foundation – RPF).

 

Programme Details

Identifier Code

P2P/PRIMA/0321  

Call

PRIMA – Section 2 – Multitopics 2021

Summary

The PRIMA Joint Programme, by funding Research & Innovation through competitive calls, aims 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, wellbeing and migration problems upstream.

Detailed Call Description

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.

Call Total Budget

€175,000 for the Cypriot Consortium (i.e. the network of Cypriot partners participating in the project) within the Transnational Consortium (i.e. includes all the partners – from different countries – which take part in the project) or 200 000 EUR for the Cypriot Consortium, in case a Cypriot organisation is the coordinator of the Transnational Consortium

Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan

According to the beneficiary classification as described in the RESTART 2016-2020 Work Programme.

Thematic Categories

  • Agriculture - Farming - Forestry
  • Energy
  • Environment and Climate Change
  • Fisheries/ Aquaculture and Maritime Policy
  • Research, Technological Development and Innovation
  • Rural development
  • Small-Medium Enterprises and Competitiveness
  • Water - Management of Water Resources

Eligibility for Participation

  • Associations
  • Educational Institutions
  • Farmers, Agriculturalists
  • Fishermen, Aquaculturists, Owners of Vessels
  • Large Enterprises
  • Local Authorities
  • NGOs
  • Non Profit Organisations
  • Private Bodies
  • Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
  • Services Providers
  • Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
  • State-owned Enterprises
  • Trade Unions

Call Opening Date

05/03/2021

Call Closing Date

21/04/2021

National Contact Point(s)

Research and Innovation Foundation
George Prokopiou
Email: gprokopiou@research.org.cy
Τel: +357 22 205 068

www.research.org.cy
https://iris.research.org.cy/#/calls

EU Contact Point

PRIMA MED

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