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University of Malta developing a novel Floating Breakwater Design to support Offshore Renewables in the Maltese Waters.
Malta has often been called a 'Fortress Island' given the significant presence of fortifications that have been constructed by the Knights of St. John and during the British period. Such developments had been driven by the need to protect Malta, located in such a strategically important location in the Mediterranean, from possible invasion.
The urgent need to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels for our energy needs by investing in offshore renewables will demand our densely populated island to invest in other types of protection in decades to come. This time, the defenses will have to be located at sea to protect renewable energy devices, such as floating photovoltaic panels, from waves in stormy conditions.
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Malta's National Statistics Office has published the Research and Development statistics for year 2021.
Here below is a statistica brief. Visit the below link to read in detail.
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The Clean Energy Transition Partnership shall be announcing the 2023 Call through an event to be held online on 13th September 2023 from 10:00 to 13:00. During this event prospective applicants can attain an in-depth understanding of the upcoming call module and navigate the proposal submission process with clarity. More information on this event can be obtained here.
Currently, the CETPartnership has also published the Draft Call Text of the upcoming call, which showcases the topics that the upcoming call will be focusing on. MCST highly encourages interested researchers to have a look at the CETP website to download the call text, and be informed of the upcoming events. Register on the…
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The EXCEL4MED project, funded by the EU, aims to strengthen innovation ecosystems in the Mediterranean region's agricultural sector. It focuses on producing nutritious food products and maximizing the use of food industrial by-products. The project aims to foster collaboration between Greece, Malta, and France to enhance the region's food value chains. Ultimately, the goal is to promote sustainable growth in the Mediterranean agricultural industry.
The overarching objective of EXCEL4MED is to create an Excellence Hub in Mediterranean fruit supply chains. The project aims to identify high-impact strategies and establish lines of resilience for producers, processors, consumers and policymakers. This will be achieved considering agility, adaptability, and alignment within the four domains of business, collaboration, sourcing, and knowledge management. Overall, …
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The European Commission will provide co-funding for 16 doctoral training and 14 postdoctoral fellowship programmes.
The European Commission has announced the results of the 2022 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) call for Co-funding of regional, national and international programmes (COFUND).
The European Commission will fund 30 COFUND projects with €95 million. These include 16 doctoral training programmes and 14 post-doctoral fellowship programmes of outstanding quality.
COFUND provides funding for regional, national and international programmes for training and career development (doctorates and post-doctorate fellowships), through co-funding mechanisms.
It spreads the MSCA’s best…
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The EIT Governing Board consists of 15 European innovation leaders and an observer from the European Commission who each stay on for four years in office. The Board provides the EIT’s strategic leadership and is independent in its decision-making. More specifically, the Board is responsible for the selection, designation, funding, and evaluation of the EIT’s Knowledge and Innovation Communities.
We are looking for…
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The H-PASS project: The "Health Professionals' and the “DigitAl team” SkillS advancement" (H-PASS) project is a transformative initiative designed to support EU Member States in enhancing healthcare team competences and workforce resilience. H-PASS addresses the digital transformation by providing training in digital skills to implement new care approaches, such as telemedicine, e-health solutions and the use of wearable devices. By empowering health professionals to adapt to digital changes, it fosters integrated sustainable and effective care models.
The H-PASS ecosystem consists of a variety of interconnected stakeholders and entities, from regulators to workforce organisations, lifelong training providers and technology innovators that are willing to collaborate and follow the objective of upskilling and reskilling the competence of the Health Work Force.
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On 20th July 2023, the African Union (AU) and the European Union (EU) adopted the new joint AU-EU Innovation Agenda which aims to transform and increase the innovative capacities and achievements of European and African researchers and innovators into tangible outputs, such as products, services, businesses and jobs.
Supported by the Global Gateway the AU-EU Innovation Agenda will represent the mainstay of the cooperation on Science, Technology and Innovation between Africa and Europe, for the next decade.
The Agenda includes 4 objectives, with short-, medium- and…
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To help promote a culture of evidence-informed policymaking and encourage stronger science-policy partnerships, the European Geosciences Union (EGU) will sponsor two scientists to work alongside a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for up to a week in November or early December 2023. The pairing scheme will enable the two selected EGU members to experience the daily work of an MEP, learn more about the role of science in policymaking, and potentially provide expertise on a science-policy issue.
We are pleased to announce that this year’s pairing will be with MEPs Martin Hojsík and Petros Kokkalis.
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It was an utmost delight to extend a warm welcome to a distinguished delegation from China at Esplora on 20th July 2023. Hon. Keith Azzopardi Tanti, Parliamentary Secretary for Youth, Research and Innovation, Dr Tonio Portughese, Chairman of the Malta Council for Science and Technology and Mr Omar Cutajar, Senior Director of MCST warmly welcomed the delegation.
The delegation was granted an exclusive tour of Esplora, which proved to be a highlight of the visit. Particularly noteworthy was the viewing of a remarkable model of Zhurong – the Chinese rover presently exploring the vast expanses of Mars. It is worth mentioning that this model was generously bestowed upon Esplora by the China National Space Administration, earlier this year and can currently be admired by the public at the Esplora Planetarium building.…
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The CSA 4.UNCAN.eu deliverable is a blueprint for UNCAN.eu initiative. The global ambition of UNCAN.eu initiative is to achieve the next breakthrough needed to advance the understanding of cancer mechanisms in order to improve cancer prevention, early diagnosis and treatment, providing a basis for saving millions of European citizens’ lives.
The blueprint for UNCAN.eu will propose to set up a European Federated Cancer Research data hub and to generate a series of use cases, addressing major challenges in cancer research. These ambitious and innovative, but realistic and focussed, use cases will be cross-border and trans-disciplinary research programmes built in a problem-solving manner. Results of these use cases will feed the Cancer Research data hub with findable, accessible, interoperable, and re-usable (FAIR) cancer research data.
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This EIT Urban Mobility survey aims to collect practitioner insights on the latest developments and trends in the field of Mobility Data Spaces (MDS). For the purpose of this survey, a Data Space is understood in line with Open DEI's definition as a“ decentralised infrastructure for trustworthy data sharing and exchange in data ecosystems, based on commonly agreed principles”.
The study focuses on current challenges and bottlenecks holding back the realisation of an EU-wide MDS. Survey respondents are kindly asked to provide answers in relation to the European context, based on their experience and knowledge of the European mobility domain.
The survey is designed for anyone who would like to share their insights and opinions on mobility data spaces in Europe. The input collected will be analysed and disseminated in an EIT Urban Mobility report to be…
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What is Syntropy? (and what does it have to do with agriculture?)
In short, syntropy is the complementary opposite of entropy. While entropy governs thermodynamic transformations that release energy at the expense of complexity, syntropy governs life, which accumulates and organizes energy. Syntropic Agriculture relies on cumulative processes of life (syntropic tendency) to restore the fertility of agroecosystems.
What is Syntropic Farming?
Syntropic Farming is a set of principles and practices created by the Swiss geneticist and farmer Ernst Götsch, that help farmers learn how to read the natural strategies of regeneration of each given place and translate them into farming interventions. Syntropic Agriculture is a practice that claims to respect and mimic nature – just as many other practices…
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: EUROPEAN PROJECTS IN WATERBORNE TRANSPORT
As part of the Waterborne Days event, taking place from 26-27 September 2023, the Waterborne Technology Platform jointly with the European Commission will be hosting an awards ceremony, celebrating the success of European projects, with a particular focus on innovation, sustainability, and market uptake or potential market uptake of a project.
An initial screening of relevance will be conducted to ensure alignment with the eligibility criteria and overall themes for the awards, a maximum of 3 projects will be nominated per award with one overall impact award being selected from the 9 nominated projects. An independent panel of judges from the European Institutions and Industry will then judge the nominations based on the defined evaluation criteria. Out of the projects nominated, four winners of the awards will be crowned during the event.
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FoRCe - Fortum Research Challenge is a global innovation challenge for universities and research institutes organized by Fortum, an European energy company.
We’re looking for researchers and/or research teams that have great research ideas, and are eager to develop them further to create clean energy solutions for decarbonizing societies. The best research idea(s) will be rewarded with a cash prize up to 15,000€.
All submitted ideas will be evaluated based on these three overall criteria:
- TECHNOLOGICAL / BUSINESS MODEL NOVELTY AND EXCELLENCE
- COMMERCIALIZATION POTENTIAL
- FIT…
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Air temperatures as low as 34 °C can lead to a steady increase in heart rate under humid conditions, a study1 says. This rise, also known as cardiovascular strain, occurs even before a person’s internal temperature starts to increase, the study found.
The findings are among a slew of recent results about the heart’s struggles when exposed to heat. Scientists say this work is becoming ever more relevant as …
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Re-wilding forests with Eurasian lynx, boosting farming with hi-tech bio-stimulants and helping one of Europe’s biggest cities adapt to climate change are among the winning projects announced at the EU’s prestigious annual LIFE Awards.
The award winners were selected from hundreds of LIFE projects across the EU supporting the European Green Deal that ended during the last two years. They mark outstanding achievements in three categories: nature protection, environment and climate action.
At the hybrid awards ceremony, held as part of European Green Week, Virginijus Sinkevičius, European Commissioner for the Environment, Oceans and Fisheries, congratulated all nine projects who made it to the final.
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Thanks to the PRIMA Training and Mobility Award (PTMA), the Malta Council for Science and Technology (MCST) supports Malta-based eligible entities in establishing fruitful networks that could lead to future collaborations and successful submission of R&I proposals.
The Award 2023 recently concluded led to the successful granting of two promising projects. The project Pathogens and the Apis mellifera ruttneri Microbiome, will allow the Institute of Earth System within the University of Malta to conduct comprehensive work isolating and characterising the honeybees’ gut microbiota strains and their functionality in collaboration with the University of Bologna. Another project titled Multiparametric Geophysics to study Groundwater in the Mediterranean region, will allow early research carriers and staff from the Department of Geosciences within UM to gain theoretical and practical…
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The call aims at selecting and supporting a (limited) number of projects addressing its Challenge of the Year with measurable impacts on the ground contributing to the strengthening of ocean literacy in Europe. Projects must be implemented with results delivered within a 12-month period maximum.
The requested financial support by the EU4Ocean coalition is 40 000 € maximum. Overall, it is expected that 3 high-quality and impact-full projects are selected and funded every year.
Eligibility
The Call for Collective Action is accessible to all members (individuals and organizations) of the different EU4Ocean communities (the EU4Ocean platform, the Youth4Ocean Forum and the EU network of Blue Schools). Individuals…
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