Call for Proposals 2025 - PRIMA Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area - Section 2
Open Call
Section 2 Calls is devided in three topics
-Thematic Area 1-Water management in the Nexus
-Thematic Area 2-Farming systems in the Nexus
-Thematic Area 3-Food value chain in the Nexus
Preparing and submitting the proposal
The proposal must be submitted via the Electronic Submission System (ESS) by the Project Coordinator
and consists of three main parts:
-Part I: the administrative & financial data, which comprise both those to be filled out directly on the ESS, and those to be uploaded by using the Part I template.
-Part II: the technical description (scientific document), which is the description of the planned project, whose page limit is 45 pages, all sections included.
-The proposal budget breakdown (excel table).
All templates are available on http://prima-med.org/.
Proposals, all annexes, and any additional documents must be written in English, in a legible font. The Section 2 Call will be launched in a single stage process. The PRIMA-Secretariat (PRIMA-IS) will be
responsible for evaluating proposals, which will be conducted under rules analogous to those of Horizon Europe, through a peer review process involving a panel that will rank the proposals.
Deadline
The deadline for proposals submission is 08 July, 2025
Maximum limit requested per partner / per country / per proposal
The maximum amount of public funding will not exceed:
-per partner: 200.000 euros (250.000 in case of project coordinator
and
-per proposal: 400.00 (450.000 if the porposal is coordinated by a Greek entity
Total Budget
The allocated budget for Call 2025 is 2.000.000
Eligible costs (direct costs)
-Personnel costs: researchers, technicians and other supporting staff to the extent employed on the project; maximum gross cost per person per month is 3.000
-Costs of instruments and equipment (depreciation costs)
-Costs of building (depreciation costs) and land, to the extent and for the duration period used for the project. For land, costs of commercial tranfer or actually incurred capital costs are eligible
-Costs of contractual research, knowledge and patents bought or licenced from outside sources at arm's length conditions, as well as costs of consultancy and equivalent servises used for the project
subcontracting costs should not exceed 30% of the total budget and they should be well justified.
-Other expenses, icluding costs of materials, consumables and similar products, travelling costs, dissemination costs etc. incurred directly as a result of the project.
-Costs of the feasibility study
Indirect costs and overheads
-Indirect costs should not exceed 5% of the budget (excluding VAT and subcotnracting costs)
Important information
Each Greek partner participating to a proposal submitted to PRIMA shall also submit in digital form to GSRI, in Greek translation, a short proposal description, providing more details regarding the work undertaken by Greek partners, within 10 working says after the first and the second stage submission deadline
So, the eligibility rules can be read as follows:
At least four legal entities established in at least three different countries considered as
PRIMA Participating States, out of which:
-at least one must be established in an EU Member State or a third country associated with Horizon Europe and not being an MPC
-at least two must be established in third country/countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea (MPC): Algeria, Jordan, Israel, Tunisia, Morocco, Lebanon, Egypt, Turkiye
The PI cannot be a coordinator in both Section 1 & Section 2 of the same year, but can be a partner in other proposals in both Sections, with an eligibility condition that proposals must be different in terms of objectives, methodology and consortium composition. For section 1, the PI can submit more than one proposal as coordinator but in case that more than one proposal is selected for funding, the coordinator will have to choose one project to be funded and withdraw the others (one funding per year). The PI can be partner in other projects.
Open Call
Section 2 Calls is devided in three topics
-Thematic Area 1-Water management in the Nexus
-Thematic Area 2-Farming systems in the Nexus
-Thematic Area 3-Food value chain in the Nexus
Preparing and submitting the proposal
The proposal must be submitted via the Electronic Submission System (ESS) by the Project Coordinator
and consists of three main parts:
-Part I: the administrative & financial data, which comprise both those to be filled out directly on the ESS, and those to be uploaded by using the Part I template.
-Part II: the technical description (scientific document), which is the description of the planned project, whose page limit is 45 pages, all sections included.
-The proposal budget breakdown (excel table).
All templates are available on http://prima-med.org/.
Proposals, all annexes, and any additional documents must be written in English, in a legible font. The Section 2 Call will be launched in a single stage process. The PRIMA-Secretariat (PRIMA-IS) will be
responsible for evaluating proposals, which will be conducted under rules analogous to those of Horizon Europe, through a peer review process involving a panel that will rank the proposals.
Deadline
The deadline for proposals submission is 08 July, 2025
Maximum limit requested per partner / per country / per proposal
The maximum amount of public funding will not exceed:
-per partner: 200.000 euros (250.000 in case of project coordinator
and
-per proposal: 400.00 (450.000 if the porposal is coordinated by a Greek entity
Total Budget
The allocated budget for Call 2025 is 2.000.000
Eligible costs (direct costs)
-Personnel costs: researchers, technicians and other supporting staff to the extent employed on the project; maximum gross cost per person per month is 3.000
-Costs of instruments and equipment (depreciation costs)
-Costs of building (depreciation costs) and land, to the extent and for the duration period used for the project. For land, costs of commercial tranfer or actually incurred capital costs are eligible
-Costs of contractual research, knowledge and patents bought or licenced from outside sources at arm's length conditions, as well as costs of consultancy and equivalent servises used for the project
subcontracting costs should not exceed 30% of the total budget and they should be well justified.
-Other expenses, icluding costs of materials, consumables and similar products, travelling costs, dissemination costs etc. incurred directly as a result of the project.
-Costs of the feasibility study
Indirect costs and overheads
-Indirect costs should not exceed 5% of the budget (excluding VAT and subcotnracting costs)
Important information
Each Greek partner participating to a proposal submitted to PRIMA shall also submit in digital form to GSRI, in Greek translation, a short proposal description, providing more details regarding the work undertaken by Greek partners, within 10 working says after the first and the second stage submission deadline
So, the eligibility rules can be read as follows:
At least four legal entities established in at least three different countries considered as
PRIMA Participating States, out of which:
-at least one must be established in an EU Member State or a third country associated with Horizon Europe and not being an MPC
-at least two must be established in third country/countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea (MPC): Algeria, Jordan, Israel, Tunisia, Morocco, Lebanon, Egypt, Turkiye
The PI cannot be a coordinator in both Section 1 & Section 2 of the same year, but can be a partner in other proposals in both Sections, with an eligibility condition that proposals must be different in terms of objectives, methodology and consortium composition. For section 1, the PI can submit more than one proposal as coordinator but in case that more than one proposal is selected for funding, the coordinator will have to choose one project to be funded and withdraw the others (one funding per year). The PI can be partner in other projects.