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Reports will be available publicly.
Type of action: workshops implemented by Portugal and Italy
lndicative budget:
€
125,000 (
€
75,000 from Portugal and
€
50,000 from Italy)
Timetable
:
the activity will begin in the first quarter of 2018, after adoption of the AWP
3.2.5 Enhancing Youth entrepreneurship
Objective:
Youth unemployment is still an urgent issue in many countries across the Mediterranean region, where
25.4 million people are unemployed, of whom 7-8 million are aged 15-24
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.
The objective of this action is to create a new generation of young entrepreneurs, able to create spin-
offs and other businesses in the water, agriculture, food topics covered by PRIMA. This action will
support training activities to young Mediterranean water and agri-food entrepreneurs, especially in
terms of development of business ideas, design and implementation of novel business models in
particular of management and operational mechanisms, processes and procedures allowing the
implementation of innovations. Particular emphasis will be placed on PRIMA areas of research better
suited to technological innovation and cross cutting issues across the PRIMA thematic research areas.
Training courses and their related bibliographic material should be available and open to the
Mediterranean audience through on-line mechanics, using digital technologies and tools such as
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).
Brokerage events will be also organised to put in contact young entrepreneurs and researchers with
the various members of innovation community, matching innovation demand with supply. They will
encourage the connection between public and private sector, by increasing interest of researchers to
develop a business-oriented career and involvement of the Mediterranean private sector in research
and innovation.
In addition, in order to facilitate the knowledge transfer between research and agri-food firms and,
more generally, among all relevant actors of agri-food innovation systems a training activity of 2 weeks
aimed to the creation of a new professional figure of innovator broker will be organised.
This professional figure is in charge of catalyzing innovation through bringing together actors and
facilitating their interaction, adopting a broad systemic, multi-actor, innovation systems perspective.
Type of action: Capacity building implemented by ITALY
Indicative budget:
€
75,000
Timetable:
The activity will begin in the
second quarter 2018
3.2.6 Assessment of PRIMA impacts in SDGs perspective
Objective:
The impact assessment and monitoring will work at regional and local scale adopting evaluation tools
and indicators selected in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This framework will
allow to identify the performance produced by PRIMA and each funded project. On the macro level
the activity provides to define and adopt:
a baseline useful to understand the state of art of MED area respectively with current
(economic, social and environmental) issues reported in PRIMA SRIA;
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a dashboard able to analyse the working progress of PRIMA, monitoring the overall impacts
and cross-cutting issues which affect simultaneously the achievement of more SDGs.
These tools should address the “expected impact” section of each PRIMA call.
Type of action: Methodology development for monitoring PRIMA with SDG indicators implemented
by Italy
Indicative budget: € 80.000
Indicative timetable: The activity will begin in the first quarter of 2018,
after adoption of the AWP
.
3.3
PS funded Administrative costs of the PRIMA-IS
To ensure in a timely manner the start of the activities described in this AWP 2018, the PS have
contributed to the administrative costs of the PRIMA-IS in Barcelona. Besides the fees to become
member of the board of trustees, several PS contributed extra means (
€
165 000) in August 2017 to
face the cash flow issues of the foundation.
The fees of the PS to become member of the Foundation (
€
15 000 per country) are not mentioned in
the table below as they are paid once for all the duration of the PRIMA program.
Only the extra financial contribution sent by the PS to cover specifically the administrative cost of the
PRIMA-IS in 2017 (from the 8
th
of August 2017) is mentioned. This financial contribution is
supplemented by a contribution in kind via seconded staff. Seven persons are seconded to work in the
premises of the PRIMA-IS in Barcelona for the first 6 months (from 28 August 2017 to 28 February
2018, representing a total amount of 200 000 euros) to ensure the functioning of the structure and
preparation of all the logistical aspects and the necessary legal documents to face the ex ante
assessment planned in September 2017. As there is no AWP 2017 but the costs are existing, the
contribution of the PS is sum up in the table below. This extra contributions will cover the salaries of
the director and vice director, the allowances of the seconded personal, travels and missions of the
director, consumables and website development.
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