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21/12/2023
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21/12/2023
Professor Yu Ding and Dr La Xiang from Harbin Engineering University (HEU), Marine Engineering, College of Power and Energy Engineering, visited Malta, as part of the collaborative research project entitled “Dual Fuel Engine Technology and Dynamic Behaviour Improvement for Marine Application” - BIMA. Project BIMA received funding from the Malta Council for Science and Technology (MCST) and the Ministry for Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China (MOST), through the Sino-...
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18/12/2023
The “M-Gov Award” and the “GovTech Prize” are annual awards managed by the Emirates Government Service Excellence Program (EGSEP) at the UAE Prime Minister’s Office. These awards are designed to encourage pioneering students, researchers, government agencies & institutions, private sector companies and startups to develop innovative solutions and explore new opportunities for a better future for humanity. In its 9th edition, As part of the World Governments Summit 2024, “The...
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15/12/2023
TRAILS stands for Youth for sustainable mobility and inclusion. Funded by EIT Urban Mobility, TRAILS aims to foster entrepreneurship and innovation capacity which will contribute to an advanced education curricula and support the young generation to further develop their skills in the field of the electro mobility. The project is being implemented in Bulgaria by Cleantech Bulgaria and in Malta by Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology. The project consortium conducted an online ...
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07/12/2023
Destination Earth (DestinE) is a flagship initiative of the European Commission to develop a highly-accurate digital model of the Earth (a digital twin of the Earth) to model, monitor and simulate natural phenomena, hazards and the related human activities. These groundbreaking features assist users in designing accurate and actionable adaptation strategies and mitigation measures. DestinE unlocks the potential of digital modelling of the Earth system at a level that represents a real ...
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07/12/2023
Callie Seaman was 16 when she started smoking cannabis to control her epilepsy. The seizures that had started two years earlier were affecting her ability to function and, while she’d excelled at school until her diagnosis, her studies were now suffering. That was back in 1997, when cannabis was still illegal throughout Europe even for medical use. Anyone who wanted to acquire some was forced to do business with a street dealer or rely on someone else to do so. Reassuring changes ‘I never ...
Mtella’:
04/12/2023
This is a Call for Expression of Interest for the provision of advisory support to beneficiaries of the FUSION R&I funding programme, specifically the Commercialisation Voucher Programme and the newly introduced FUSION add-ons, in preparation for the commercialisation of their innovative ideas within the local and/or foreign markets, This expression of interest is open to Service Providers specialising in the following areas: Intellectual Property Commercial Viability Test Intellectual...
Mtella’:
01/12/2023
The Joint Research Centre has launched 7 NEW calls for accessing its Research Infrastructures: Actinide User Laboratories (ACTUSLAB, Karlsruhe - DE) Environmental and mechanical materials assessment (EMMA, Petten - NL) Hopkinson bar for structural assessments (ELSA, Ispra - IT) Below are the links to the calls: ELSA: HopLab https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/calls-proposals/hopkinson-bar-facility-european-laboratory-structural-assessment-elsa-2023-1-rd-elsa-hoplab_en ...
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30/11/2023
Packaging in the consumer product landscape might seem like gloss and glitter, but it serves an essential function: it presents the product to the consumer and safeguards it from harm. However, packaging is often quickly discarded and raises concerns regarding sustainability. Because of this, in the quest for more sustainable packaging solutions, the principles of circular economy are gaining prominence. Traditional packaging often follows a linear model: you buy something, make use of the ...
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28/11/2023
If waves of water, light, or sound were to impinge upon a hypothetical object called a perfect absorber, they would be neither reflected nor transmitted; they would simply vanish. Researchers have now demonstrated perfect absorption using ordinary water waves traveling down a narrow channel. The waves are canceled out by their own reflections from cavities built into the side of the channel. With further development, the researchers believe that the effect could be used to reduce erosion or ...