Unistrapg WARREDOC is coordinator of EU 3 MLN euro project on the Water Energy Food Ecosystem Nexus: NEXUS-NESS (Horizon 2020, PRIMA PROJECT)

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The WARREDOC centre, as leader of an international consortium, has been awarded for the funding of the NEXUS-NESS (NEXUS Nature Ecosystem Society Solution: Fair and Sustainable Resource Allocation Demonstrator of the Multiple WEFE Nexus Economic, Social and Environmental Benefits for Mediterranean Regions ) as PRIMA project.

Results of the PRIMA Call Section 1-2020

The project, with 3 Mln €  total budget, is composed by the following partners: Università per Stranieri di Perugia (UNISTRAPG),  University of Florence (UNIFI), Polytechnic of Milan (POLIMI), Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (SSSA), Urby et Orbit (UEO), Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Univ. Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), XPRO Consulting Limited (XPRO), DESIGN & DATA GmbH (DDATA), Sol Agro hydrosystème Spatialisation (SAS),  Alexandria Univ. (AU), Institut Régions Arides de Médenine (IRA), Comm. Rég. au Dév. Agricole Gabès (CRDA).

PRIMA (Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area) is the most ambitious joint programme to be undertaken in the frame of Euro-Mediterranean cooperation. By funding Research and Innovation (R&I) through competitive calls, PRIMA aims to: “build research and innovation capacities and to develop knowledge and common innovative solutions for agro-food systems, to make them sustainable, and for integrated water provision and management in the Mediterranean area, to make those systems and that provision and management more climate resilient, efficient, cost-effective and environmentally and socially sustainable, and to contribute to solving water scarcity, food security, nutrition, health, well-being and migration problems upstream”.

PRIMA also aims to contribute to United Nations’ Agenda 2030 through the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). PRIMA consists of European Union Member States, Horizon 2020 Associated Countries and Mediterranean Partner Countries on an equal footing basis (co-ownership, co-management and co-funding) with the Participation of the European Commission, under the framework of an art.185 TFEU.