The Malta Bus Reborn vision revived one of Malta's cultural icons, fusing heritage with climate action. The iconic diesel fleet, retired in 2011 due to environmental and accessibility issues, made a reimagined return to the public realm. A public campaign electrified the nation's imagination...

The 2025 Work Programme of the European Research Council has been adopted. The Programme sets out funding opportunities, budgets of the calls, the calendar of grant competition and conditions for ERC funding.  Read more here!  

EU Heads of State agreed on a pared-back budget of €80.9 billion for the Horizon Europe research programme, The Horizon budget was just one piece of a historically large pie that it took EU leaders a record five days to negotiate. The big picture: a total EU budget from 2021-27 of €1.82 trillion...

The Islands & Small States Institute (ISSI) of the University of Malta invites postgraduate students, alumni and academics to the 1st Postgraduate Conference in Islands and Small States Studies. The event will be held on 20 June 2022, between 9am and 6pm, at the University of Malta’s Valletta Campus...

The Energy and Water Agency in Malta has launched the 2021 Call for Proposals for R&I Projects in the Fields of Energy and Water. More information and all relevant documentation can be found on the Agency’s website: https://www.energywateragency.gov.mt/schemes/  Research grants range from €60 000...

The 2023 CEF Transport calls for proposals make EUR 7 billion available for projects targeting new and improved European transport infrastructure.  Projects funded under these calls will help to increase the sustainability of the trans-European transport network, putting the EU on track to meet the...

45 New COST actions just approved March 2020!   45 new COST actions have just been published! COST, European Cooperation in Science and Technology, www.cost.eu, is an EU-funded networking activity which allows the networking of research on a European level. It facilitates research between...

APPLY TO JOINOn behalf of COST Association, Xjenza Malta and the CNCs for Malta are delighted to inform you that 60 new COST Actions are open for researchers to be nominated as Management Committee representative for Malta in these new COST Actions. You may browse through these COST Actions to...

The European Commission: Joint Research Centre has launched 8 new calls to access its laboratories under the JRC Open Access Initiative. The JRC opens access to its research infrastructures for experimentation and capacity building purposes in the field of actinide nuclear fuel characterisation...

From 2022, the European Commission has been recognising special achievements through successful implementation of gender equality plans (GEP) at universities, higher education institutions and other research institutions (public or private) with a Gender Equality Champions Award. This year’s call...