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EIT Climate Knowledge Innovation Community (KIC Climate)
Scope and Objective
Synergies and complementarities with PRIMA
KIC Climate Specifically, the land and water theme
address:
Extreme Events: how to adapt to rising sea levels and
extreme climate events through advanced and innovative
land and water engineering
Water security: creating water security for agriculture,
industry and cities
Ecosystem services: we help to develop
innovative value chains and markets for
ecosystem services
The aim of a KIC will be to gather excellence in higher
education, research and business to deliver jobs and
growth opportunities. The KIC CLIMATE is its full spring,
and has 6 Colocation across all Europe and 6 Regional
Innovation Communities, two of them in the Southern
Europe (Spain and Italy). PRIMA Programme will interact
with representatives of the KIC CLIMATE in order to cross-
fertilise
agendas
and
implementation
plans.
Representatives of the KIC CLIMATE will significantly
contribute to the public discussion of PRIMA. Since the
scope of the KIC is European, whilst its outreach and
internationalization is expected, PRIMA may be a strong
avenue to the Euro-Mediterranean Area in order to
engage possible new members and mobilise local
stakeholders in the KIC, and leverage on what has been
done so far by the KIC Regions. Vice versa, instruments of
the KIC might be of inspiration or might be co-developed,
being the two initiatives not competitive in term of scope,
vision, governance and funding, with particular emphasis
on
the
training
and
business
development/entrepreneurship support.
EU initiatives that could be discontinued in the case the Art.185 option for
PRIMA is adopted
A more coherent, and ‘complexity-durable’ joint programming action like the PRIMA Programme, which will
be able to gather a higher critical mass in terms of funding, would enable adequate support for excellent
research teams to embark on their work, avoiding the missed granting opportunities associated with the
existing ERANETs. A longer-term and more-structured programme will therefore result in the achievement
of significant impact in
terms of scientific outputs, innovation potential and its return on the local territories
addressed by these projects.
The PRIMA Partners, have already conducted a “first phase of analysis” focused on completed and ongoing
national, bilateral and international initiatives, and this work has been fully presented in ANNEX I as well as
in ANNEX III (in the section dealing with synergies and complementarities with other initiatives).
This analysis will be developed further in the coming months as part of the work of the 4PRIMA CSA, more
specifically during the elaboration of the SRIA. The process will ensure that all the relevant stakeholder
contributions and opinions are taken into account to provide the EU with a more comprehensive list of
suggestions and recommendations on the issue.
At this stage, however, the PRIMA partners think it more appropriate to recommend an incentive for better
alignment and coordination in the fields highlighted for synergies within Annexe I, rather than specify a list
of initiatives to be deactivated.