ministero dell’istruzione dell’università e della ricerca...financial contribution € 274,000...

Ministero dell’Istruzione dell’Università e della Ricerca

2 Marzo 2018

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

PRIMA

Financial

contribution

€ 274,000 PSs

€ 220.000 EU

19 June 2017

Foundation under Spanish

law

19 PSs

members of

Foundation

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.

Financial

contribution

€ 274,000 PSs

€ 220.000 EU

19 June 2017

Foundation under Spanish

law

19 PSs

members of

Foundation

History of PRIMA

JOINT PROGRAMME

presented to the

Commission by IT

22 December 2014 Valletta Declaration

4 May 2017

Positive opinion by Regulatory Scrutiny Board (RSB)

22 July 2016

Vote in EP

plenary

13 June 2017

Establishment

of Fundación PRIMA

19 June 2017 Agreement

between Council

and European

Parliament

11 April 2017

Adoption

in the TTE

Council

26 June 2017

PRIMA DECISION (EU) 2017/1324

signature of

the Act

July 2017

2012

Euro-Mediterranean Conference

on R&I in Barcelona

2-3 April 2012

2014

2016 2017

SRIA

Strategic Research and Innovation

Agenda

Draft - August 10th 2017

2018

January 2018

Approval and

adoption of

Annual Work

Plan

IMPACT ASSESSMENT

Financial contribution

€ 274,000 PSs

€ 220.000 EU

PRIMA Foundation Governance

Scientific

Advisory Board Board of Trustees Chair and

Co-Chair

Representatives from each PS.

EC, UfM as Observers

Steering Committee

PRIMA operates as an independent legal private entity

PRIMA

Secretariat Barcelona

advice

19 June 2017

Foundation under Spanish law

19 PSs members of

Foundation

Who We Are PRIMA Partecipating States and To

Be Participating State

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.

trategic Research and Innovation

Agenda raft - August 10th 2017

Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda SRIA

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

Call publication PRIMA-IS PRIMA-IS PS (Participating States)

Proposal evaluation selection

PRIMA-IS PRIMA-IS PS

Projects funded by

PRIMA-IS

EU PS PS

Projects monitored by PRIMA-IS

PRIMA-IS

PS PS

Rules for participation PS Rules PS Rules

PRIMA programme structure

SECTION 1 Transnational calls for proposals

SECTION 2 Transnational calls for proposals

SECTION 3 PSIAs and activities supporting programme operations

Section 1: RIA and IA calls

PRIMA Roadmap 2018 Section 1

Call Topics

Pre-announceme

nt

Call publication

and opening

Submission deadline Stage 1

Evaluation results Stage 1

Submission deadline Stage 2

Evaluation results Stage 2 Action

RIA Water reuse and water desalination for agricultural and food production

15-Jan-18 08-Feb-18 17-Apr-18 15-Jun-18 15-Sep-18 05-Dec-18

Sustainable productive ecosystems

15-Jan-18 08-Feb-18 17-Apr-18 15-Jun-18 15-Sep-18 05-Dec-18

RIA

Implementation of innovation in the Agro-food chain (...)

15-Jan-18 08-Feb-18 17-Apr-18 15-Jun-18 15-Sep-18 05-Dec-18

IA

Type of Grants Section 1

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.

IA - Innovation Action RIA- Research and Innovation Action

Funding rate: 100% Funding rate: 70%

Except for non profit legal entities where a rate of 100% applies

Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs)

Type of action Research Action (RIA) And Innovation Action (IA )

Total indicative amount allocated to

this Call

€ 6,1 million per call

Funding level RIA 100%

IA 70% (except for non-profit legal entities, where a rate of 100% applies)

Technology readiness levels RIA 3 to 5

IA 5 to 8

Expected number of grants Up to 3 (projects up to € 2,033 million each, – indicative amount)

Eligibility conditions for participation Please refer to section 5.1.1

The standard admissibility (section 5.1.2) and eligibility conditions (section 5.1.3) apply.

Submission and evaluation procedure

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.

Evaluation rules The award criteria, scoring, thresholds and weightings for IAs listed in part 5.1.6 will be used.

Grant agreement PRIMA grant agreement (multi-beneficiary), based on Horizon 20202 Model Grant Agreement.

Consortium 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.

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.

Stage 1 Pre-proposals Deadline for Submission 17th April, 2018 17:00h 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, 2018 17:00h 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)

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.

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 1290/20134 .

- 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 .

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.

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

http://prima-med.org/find-partners/

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

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.

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. 2000 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 email and will be able to edit his/her administrative and financial data.

PRIMA Impact indicators

Outcome indicators

Outcome indicators

Operational indicators

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION

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