Uploaded On: 23/05/2023

Get ready to be a part of the Science in the City Festival 2023! The Organisation Call is now open, we’re on the lookout for innovative activities that highlight the importance of becoming a Changemaker. We believe that science and creativity play a crucial role in shaping our society and addressing the world’s most pressing challenges. With this in mind, we’re seeking proposals that demonstrate the vital role of science in enabling the wider public to participate in decision-making ...

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Uploaded On: 19/05/2023

Last October, the neuroimaging community was abuzz with excitement. Researchers in South Korea seemed to have overcome one of the biggest limitations of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), a popular method for studying the human brain. Jang-Yeon Park, an author of the study, had been pondering the limitations of fMRI since his graduate student days at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. While conducting his PhD in medical physics, Park had developed a fascination for ...

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Uploaded On: 18/05/2023

Communication is an indispensable part of our lives. It helps us share experiences, connect with people, and express our thoughts. EyeCon, a collaborative project between the University of Malta and 88.eu, financed by the Malta Council for Science and Technology under the FUSION programme, has created an application with a suite of gaze-controlled communication applications intended to provide individuals with mobility impairments an alternative mode of communication through their eye movement ...

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Uploaded On: 18/05/2023

Citizen science programmes have revolutionised in recent years the collection of scientific data in the field, allowing scientists to monitor natural phenomena or a human activity round the clock whilst inspiring and informing contributing members of the public. The Oceanography Malta Research Group (OMRG) within the Department of Geosciences at the University of Malta has today launched ANDROMEDA, a microplastics citizen science project, a campaign through which information on the density, size...

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Uploaded On: 15/05/2023

The general objective of the Transforming Health and Care System Partnership (THCS) is to contribute to the transition towards more sustainable, efficient, resilient, inclusive, innovative, and high-quality people-centred health and care systems equally accessible to all people. For this purpose, THCS aims at creating new knowledge and scientific evidence, co-designing new solutions and supporting their transfer and scale-up across countries and regions while also fostering capacity building. ...

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Uploaded On: 12/05/2023

TRAILS stands for Youth for sustainable mobility and inclusion. Funded by EIT Urban Mobility, TRAILS aims and to foster 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 by MCAST in Malta and Cleantech Bulgaria in Bulgaria. Within the project's framework, MCAST together with its partner Cleantech Bulgaria has designed a ...

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Uploaded On: 11/05/2023

The challenges the Euro-Mediterranean area is facing amid the post-pandemic recovery, the climate emergency, and the geopolitical crises in the region have called to act together and with more resilience than ever. "2022 has been a cumbersome year for the Euro-Mediterranean region: against a back - drop of post-pandemic socio-economic crisis and an increasingly overriding climate emer - gency, the region’s geopolitical crises have further enhanced its existing fragility and vulnerability...

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Uploaded On: 11/05/2023

MCST’s leadership team participated in a visit led by the Hon. Keith Azzopardi Tanti, Parliamentary Secretary for Youth, Research and Innovation between the 4th and the 6th of May. The Deputy Minister of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for Cabinet Affairs on Competitiveness and Knowledge Exchange, H.E. Abdullah Nasser Lootah, was in Malta together with his delegation in order to further strengthen the link for collaboration between the two countries. After the visit last February of the ...

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Uploaded On: 11/05/2023

‘Intellectual Property’ refers to all products and works that are the fruit of the human mind and therefore plays a significant role in our daily lives. Rights accorded by the state in respect of intellectual property such as copyright, patents, trademarks and registered designs provide businesses, artists and inventors with a means to protect products and creations and also encourage them to invest in innovation and creativity to the benefit of society.   The Malta Intellectual ...

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Uploaded On: 08/05/2023

On 24th April 2023, the EU and Norway have established a Green Alliance to strengthen their joint climate action, environmental protection efforts, and cooperation on the clean energy and industrial transition. The agreement was signed in Brussels by the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and Norway's Prime Minister, Jonas Gahr Støre. President von der Leyen said: “Norway is a long-standing and reliable partner to the EU and we share...

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