Dear Colleagues and Friends,

We remind you all the PRIMA WEFE Nexus Awards.

The WEFE Nexus Award recognizes “research teams and practitioners” that have devised and demonstrated the successful implementation on the ground of combined management practices of water, energy, food and ecosystem resources in the Mediterranean, at the local, sub-Regional and or regional level.

The deadline for submissions is 17:00 (CET) on 15 June 2021. All applications must be submitted via the PRIMA submission link:

https://prima-med.org/calls-for-proposals/ (Call: PRIMA WEFE NexusAward).

The contest will reward the first two winnerswith EUR 10 000 each, which will create role models for theadoption and replication of the WEFE  integrated approach in the MediterraneanRegion.

The contestants for the PRIMAprizes should be at least one legal entity established in a PRIMA Participant State (check out at: https://prima-med.org/about-us/participating-states/). Pleaseread the Rules ofContest before applying.

A jury of independent experts will evaluate theproposals by looking at the following criteria:

• From results to societal benefits –demonstrate the widersocio-economic benefits of their proposed practices going beyond a fragmentedsystem of sectors and players;
• Uptake of solutions– demonstrate that theyhave directly exploited their proposed solutions or have played an active rolein the uptake of the results by third parties, in particular influencing policychange;
• Replicability of solutions-demonstrate thereplication and upscaling potential of the proposedWater-Energy-Food-Ecosystems Nexus solutions.

The first two winners will beannounced during the 2021 WEFE Nexus Science Advances Conference jointly organised by PRIMA,the Joint Research Centre-JRC and the Directorate General Research andInnovation of the European Commission, the UfM-Union for the Mediterranean, andthe Cyprus Institute.

 The Conference will be heldOnline from Nicosia (Cyprus), 27 – 29 September 2021 (More info: https://wefe-nexus-medconf-2021.eu/)

Do not hesitate to disseminatewithin your relevant network the info related to the PRIMA Awards. Furtherupdate on the WEFE Nexus conference will follow as soon as the agenda will beagreed.