PRIMA WEFE Nexus Award 2023

The PRIMA partnership was launched during the 2nd Ministerial Conference on Strengthening Euro-Mediterranean Cooperation through Research and Innovation, 4th May 2017, Valletta, Malta, as a follow-up from Barcelona Process, 1995.

Awards have a strong potential to drive innovation by recognizing achievements and promoting role models. In this regard, PRIMA plans to award a monetary recognition prize dedicated to promoting scientific research and demonstrating the economic and social benefits of the Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystem (WEFE) Nexus in the Mediterranean Area: the PRIMA WEFE Nexus Award.

PRIMA WEFE Nexus Award is assigned to “research teams and practitioners” that have devised and demonstrated the successful implementation of combined management practices of water, energy, food and ecosystem resources at the local or regional scale in the Mediterranean area.

The contestants for the PRIMA prizes should be at least one legal entity established in a PRIMA Partner States. The demonstrated practices must be implemented in the Mediterranean region.

The award enables teams to showcase their best practices and achievements. This will encourage researchers to use and manage their results in the best way possible.

The applications must be created by the lead participant and consists of two main parts:

• Part I: the administrative data (to be filled directly on the ESS, and uploaded as well using Part I template);
• Part II: the prize application (Part II), which is the description of Nexus WEFE solution. The page-limit for your prize application (Part II) is max 10 pages.

The templates Part I and application form are available on the PRIMA website http://prima-med.org/

Information contained on this page constitutes only a summary of the call information and should not replace a careful consultation of the documents available on this page and on the PRIMA website (see “important links” below).

An independent panel of experts will evaluate all eligible applications. In addition to their scientific excellence, the prize will be awarded to the entry that best addresses the following cumulative criteria:

1. From results to societal benefits –demonstrate the wider socio-economic benefits of their proposed practices going beyond a fragmented system of sectors and players;

2. Uptake of solutions - demonstrate that they have directly exploited their proposed solutions or have played an active role in the uptake of the results by third parties, in particular influencing policy change;

3. Replicability of solutions- demonstrate the replication and upscaling potential of the proposed Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems Nexus solutions.

Total indicative amount: 20.000Euro for two Prizes, 10.000 Euro each.

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If you have any questions related to the Award, please get in touch with Ali Rhouma: ali.rhouma@prima-med.org