The ReNature 2nd Interdisciplinary Training School aims to provide participants with an understanding of opportunities to mainstream nature-based solutions in urban planning, and how the design of nature-based solutions can provide co-benefits to biodiversity and ecosystem service flows, leading to an improvement in human well-being. For more information follow this link.

MarTERA has launched a fourth joint call for transnational research and innovation projects on 2021-01-04. This call is initiated by ministries/funding organisations from 9 countries: Belarus, Belgium, Germany, Malta, Norway, Poland, Romania, South Africa and Turkey .The total funding budget is EUR 8.5 million. The call will cover the following priority areas: Priority Area 1: Environmentally friendly maritime technologies Priority Area 2:...

The Commission welcomes the political agreement between the European Parliament and the Council on Horizon Europe, the largest transnational programme ever supporting research and innovation. The new EU research and innovation programme will have a budget of around €95.5 billion for 2021-2027 (current prices). This includes €5.4 billion (current prices) from NextGenerationEU to boost our recovery and make the EU more resilient for the future, as...

Post/s of Full-Time or Part-Time Research Support Officer II or III - - University of Malta Project: “Sharing and enhancing capabilities to address environmental threats in Mediterranean Sea” (ShareMED) - MED Interreg Programme at the Physical Oceanography Research Group, Department of Geosciences, Faculty of Science - Closing Date: Saturday, 31 October 2020

This is a Call for Expression of Interest is intended for Evaluators wanting to provide evaluation service to the Malta Council for Science and Technology (hereinafter referred to as the Council) in the systematic and objective assessment of submitted project proposals submitted in respect of the Research Excellence Programme or the PARADISE Call. Research Excellence Programme: The aim of the Research Excellence Programme is to determine the...

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, including €750 billion in a special pandemic recovery fund. After the pandemic funding, the biggest pieces of the budget will be agriculture and...

Up to date (July 2020), Maltese entities have managed to obtain more than Eur 29 mln in funding from the Horizon 2020 programme.

The Planning Authority (PA) of Malta is welcoming Expression of Interests from experienced researchers willing to apply with the PA as a host entity for the MSCA IF 2020 call. More information about the call and the requirements can be found here.   In particuliar the Planning Authority is looking for eligible applicants in the following: i) advanced spatial statistics and predictability analysis ii) Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, and data...

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 scientific communities in different countries and also increases the mobility of researchers across Europe through the setting up of COST actions. COST fosters...

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships 2020 Call for expressions of interest The University of Malta is interested in hosting researchers intending to submit an application for the call of Individual Fellowships in the framework of the Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions (MSCA) programme. The MSCA-Individual Fellowships grant usually covers two years’ salary, a mobility allowance, research costs and overheads for the host institution. All EoIs...