Ministero dell Istruzione dell Università e della Ricerca

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1 Ministero dell Istruzione dell Università e della Ricerca 2 Marzo 2018

2 PRIMA An integrated Research and Innovation Programme ex Art. 185 TFUE on food systems and water resources 19 Countries, 11 EU and 8 SEMCs, and the EC Equal footing through Governance and organisational mechanisms 500 million euro budget over 7 years managed by PRIMA Foundation, located in Barcelona

3 Vision Inclusive, healthy and prosperous Mediterranean societies through innovative solutions in agro-food and water systems, contributing, by the end of the programme, to sustainable use of natural resources, economic growth and stability. 19 June 2017 Foundation under Spanish law 19 PSs members of Foundation Financial contribution 274,000 PSs EU

4 19 June 2017 Foundation under Spanish law 19 PSs members of Foundation Financial contribution 274,000 PSs EU

5 Draft - August 10th 2017 January 2018 History of PRIMA Approval and adoption of Annual Work Plan IMPACT ASSESSMENT Positive opinion by Regulatory Scrutiny Board (RSB) 22 July 2016 Vote in EP plenary 13 June 2017 Euro-Mediterranean Conference on R&I in Barcelona 2-3 April 2012 Agreement between Council and European Parliament 11 April 2017 Establishment of Fundación PRIMA 19 June 2017 Adoption in the TTE Council 26 June 2017 SRIA Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda JOINT PROGRAMME presented to the Commission by IT 22 December 2014 Valletta Declaration 4 May 2017 PRIMA DECISION (EU) 2017/1324 signature of the Act July 2017

6 PRIMA Foundation Governance Board of Trustees Chair and Co-Chair Representatives from each PS. EC, UfM as Observers Steering Committee advice Scientific Advisory Board PRIMA Secretariat Barcelona PRIMA operates as an independent legal private entity 19 June 2017 Foundation under Spanish law 19 PSs members of Foundation Financial contribution 274,000 PSs EU

7 PRIMA Partecipating States and To Be Participating Who State We Are TO DATE, 19 COUNTRIES COMMITTED TO THE INITIATIVE: Algeria, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Malta, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Tunisia and Turkey have formally become PRIMA Participating States. Egypt and Morocco will fully become PRIMA Participating States after the signature and ratification of the international agreements with the EU.

8 Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda SRIA trategic Research and Innovation Agenda raft - August 10th 2017

9 3 Main Thematic Areas 12 priorities MANAGEMENT OF WATER - Water resources availability and quality within catchments and aquifers - Sustainable, integrated water management - Irrigation technologies and practices - Use of alternative water resources FARMING SYSTEMS - Adaptation of agriculture to climate change - Developing sustainable and productive agro-ecosystems - Preventing emergence of animal and plant diseases - Developing farming systems able to generate income, to create employment and to contribute to a balanced territorial development AGRO-FOOD VALUE CHAIN - Valorising food products from traditional Mediterranean diet - Food Safety in local food chains - Implementation of innovation in the Agro-food chain, promoting higher quality, sustainability and competitiveness, with particular reference to smallholders - Implications of dietary shifts and sustainable diets for the Med populations and food industry

10 PRIMA programme structure SECTION 1 Transnational calls for proposals SECTION 2 Transnational calls for proposals SECTION 3 PSIAs and activities supporting programme operations Call publication Proposal evaluation selection Projects funded by PRIMA-IS PRIMA-IS PS (Participating States) PRIMA-IS PRIMA-IS PS PRIMA-IS PS PS EU Projects monitored by Rules for participation PRIMA-IS PRIMA-IS PS PS Rules PS PS Rules

11 Section 1: RIA and IA calls

12 PRIMA Roadmap 2018 Section 1 Action Call Topics Preannounceme nt Call publication and opening Submission deadline Stage 1 Evaluation results Stage 1 Submission deadline Stage 2 Evaluation results Stage 2 RIA Water reuse and water desalination for agricultural and food production 15-Jan Feb Apr Jun Sep Dec-18 RIA Sustainable productive ecosystems 15-Jan Feb Apr Jun Sep Dec-18 IA Implementation of innovation in the Agro-food chain (...) 15-Jan Feb Apr Jun Sep Dec-18

13 Type of Grants Section 1 RIA- Research and Innovation Action IA - Innovation Action Funding available for collaborative research projects tackling clearly defined challenges which can lead to the development of new knowledge or new technology. Funding available for closer-to-the-market activities including prototyping, testing, demonstrating, piloting, scaling-up etc. for new or improved products, processes or services. Funding rate: 100% Funding rate: 70% Except for non profit legal entities where a rate of 100% applies

14 Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs)

15 Type of action Research Action (RIA) And Innovation Action (IA ) Total indicative amount allocated to this Call Funding level Technology readiness levels Expected number of grants Eligibility conditions for participation Submission and evaluation procedure Evaluation rules Grant agreement Consortium agreement 6,1 million per call RIA 100% IA 70% (except for non-profit legal entities, where a rate of 100% applies) RIA 3 to 5 IA 5 to 8 Up to 3 (projects up to 2,033 million each, indicative amount) Please refer to section The standard admissibility (section 5.1.2) and eligibility conditions (section 5.1.3) apply. Two-stage application procedure. For the first stage, a short proposal (maximum 10 pages) must be submitted by the first deadline. Successful applicants in the first stage will be invited to submit a full proposal (maximum 70 pages) for the second stage. A timeline for the submission and evaluation of applications can be found in table 5. The award criteria, scoring, thresholds and weightings for IAs listed in part will be used. PRIMA grant agreement (multi-beneficiary), based on Horizon Model Grant Agreement. Participants in projects resulting from this Call for Proposals will be required to conclude a consortium agreement prior to the conclusion of the PRIMA grant agreement.

16 IMPORTANT INFORMATION For the first stage, a short Scientific pre-proposal (10 pages) must be submitted to the Electronic Submission System by the first deadline (April 17, 2018; 17:00h CET). Guidance about the Electronic Submission System is provided in the document entitled Electronic Submission System handbook. The link to the electronic submission system will be announced ONE MONTH before the submission deadline on the PRIMA web page, in the section corresponding to the call.

17 Stage 1 Pre-proposals Deadline for Submission 17th April, :00h CET Documents for stage 1: - Administrative data (to fill in directly on the ESS) - Scientific document (template to be uploaded as pdf on the ESS) - Global budget (total cost and required amount to PRIMA for each partner to fill in directly on the ESS) Stage 2 Full proposals Deadline for Submission 15th September, :00h CET Documents for stage 2: - Administrative data (to fill in directly on the ESS) - Detailed Scientific document (template to be uploaded as pdf on the ESS) - Detailed budget (template to be uploaded as an Excel file in the ESS) -CVs (template to be uploaded as pdf on the ESS)

18 Standard eligibility conditions The minimum number of participants is three. Consortia must be composed by at least three independent legal entities established in three different countries considered to be PRIMA Participating States, of which: At least one is established in a EU Member State (Croatia, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain) At least one is an established in a third country bordering the Mediterranean Sea: Algeria, Tunisia, Turkey, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon. To Be Participating States: Egypt, Morocco.

19 Other Entities eligible for funding - Any legal entity created under Union law. - Any international European interest organization, as defined in point (12) of Article 2(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1290/ Any international organization or any legal entity established in countries not listed above if: participation is deemed to be essential for carrying out the action; such funding is provided under a bilateral scientific and technological agreement or any other arrangement between the Union and the international organization or, for entities established in a country which is not a Participating State, the country in which the legal entity is established. Participants from countries not listed above can be part of a consortium but: they have to fund their own participation they cannot coordinate the project and they are not taken into account in the minimum number of participants required to have an eligible consortium.

20 Please note that: Morocco and Egypt are to become Participating States. The procedures for the conclusion of their international agreements with the EU are in progress, legal entities established in Egypt and Morocco can participate in PRIMA projects under the following conditions: Calls in Section 1 - They count towards the minimum number of participants in the consortium if the international agreement produces legal effects at the latest by the day of the submission deadline of the relevant call for proposals. - They are eligible for funding if the international agreement produces legal effects at the latest on the day the Grant Agreement (GA) is signed. If the international agreement does not produce legal effects on the day of signature of the GA, these entities are still eligible for participation, but without funding. In case that their participation is deemed to be essential for carrying out the action by the PRIMA Foundation funding may be granted. If the international agreement starts producing legal effects after the GA is signed, the GA may be amended to provide for redistribution of funding (and related tasks) among the entities in the consortium. Such amendment cannot, however, give rise to additional funding for the project.

21 Find partners Find partners for your project ideas among the organisations registered in this portal. You can either post a partnership request or use the search engine to view requests posted by others

22 Eligible costs for Section 1 Budget Categories: -Direct personnel costs -Direct costs of subcontracting -Other direct costs (travel costs and related substence allowaces, equipment, costs of other goods and services, large reserach infrastucture, costs of internally invoiced goods and services) -Indirect costs flat rate of 25% of the eligible costs

23 Evaluation procedure Individual Evaluation: Each eligible proposal is evaluated remotely by at least three expert evaluators Panel review: after the remote individual evaluation, evaluators meet in a panel to discuss and find agreement on the initial comments and scores attributed to each proposal. They will prepare an Evaluation Summary Report (ESR) for each proposal, which shows the outcome of the evaluation of the project proposal. The panel is also responsible for the preparation of a ranking list of the proposals by consensus.

24 Electronic Submission System The proposal submission occurs online via Electronic Submission System. The ESS will ask for the following information: - Project Title; Project Acronym; - Project duration (max. 36 month); - Topic; Keywords; - Abstract (max characters); - Documents. You can upload the required documents (Scientific document, budget table, CVs, in pdf or excel files). Max allowed file size: 10 MB; - For stage 1 (pre-proposal stage) the EES will ask you for the total cost / partner and the requested amount to PRIMA / partner. For information Total cost = requested amount to PRIMA + own funding; - Note that for stage 2 (full proposal stage), a detailed budget will be asked for each partner. The project coordinator has to list all partners of the consortium. After having entered the required information, each partner will receive a confirmation and will be able to edit his/her administrative and financial data.

25 PRIMA Impact indicators

26 Outcome indicators

27 Outcome indicators

28 Operational indicators

29 THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION