Objectives

• Establish new governance models to define best practice in sustainable water management and conflict mitigation
• Taking a step towards carbon neutral farms: combining renewable energy sources with circular farming systems
• Evaluating new antimicrobial food packaging and coating materials to reduce food waste and improve safety in the Mediterranean food supply chain

Priorities

• Priority 1 – To contribute to water sustainability and security in the Mediterranean region
• Priority 2 – To develop an integrated farming system using renewable energy to decrease GHG emissions and maximize the use and reuse of wastes and inputs
• Priority 3 – To explore novel, cost-competitive and versatile biodegradable food packaging and coatings materials with adequate functionalities to control the packaging atmosphere and prevent food spoilage while causing no environmental damage

Among financed actions

• Activities primarily aim to establish new knowledge and/or to explore the feasibility of a new or improved technology, product, process, service or solution
• projects may include basic and applied research, technology development and integration, testing and validation on a smallscale prototype in a laboratory or simulated environment
• All projects will have to include collaborative research

Additional information

• This call for proposals is an open call for proposals
• Initial duration of the action: 36 months

Eligibility 

• Be a legal entity
• Be an international European interest organisation
• A consortium composed of at least 4 entities, established in at least 3 different countries considered as PRIMA Participating States with: at least 1 must be established in an EU Member State or a third country associated with Horizon 2020 and not being an MPC and at least 2 must be established in third countriy/countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea
• All four legal entities must be independent of each other

• Total budget of the call: 36.132.500 euro
• Amount of the grant: 1.5 million euro