Digital Technologies Programme (Malta)

After a succession of consultations, and the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between MCST and the Malta Digital Innovation Authority (MDIA), several avenues for collaboration were identified, including a dedicated thematic programme for the digital domain.

Priority Areas

• Artificial Intelligence
  • Generative AI
  • Multimodal AI
  • Explainable AI
• Digital Trust
  • Digital Identity
  • Cybersecurity
  • Cyber Resilience
  • Dependable
  • Computing
  • Regulatory Science
• Knowledge and Data Representation and Analysis
  • Knowledge Graphs
  • Data Analysis
• Technology for Sustainability and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG)
  • Sustainable Cloud
  • AI for Sustainability
  • Edge Computing
• Quantum Computing and Other Emerging Technologies
  • Quantum Communication
  • Other emerging technologies (e.g., Neuromorphic Computing, Applications related to Personalised Medicine and Augmented-Connected Workforce)

Funding Information

• The maximum possible grant value for a project is €200,000.
• Duration: 24 months

Eligibility Criteria

• Maltese Registered Legal Entities from Public, Private and Academic Institutions, as sole beneficiaries or through a consortium.
• In order to be eligible, applicants must satisfy the following criteria:
  • They must be either: a) a partnership constituted under the Companies Act, being a partnership en nom collectif, or en commandite; or b) duly registered as a co-operative, society under the Co-Operative Societies Act; or c) a limited liability company; or d) professional body; or e) NGOs; or f) Non-profit making entities (including Foundations).

Ineligibility Criteria

• Any applicants that at the time of proposal submission are considered by MCST to be non-compliant with respect to Grant Agreement obligations on other active projects funded by MCST, may be immediately deemed ineligible at application stage or will not be awarded funding under this programme. This also applies to situations whereby the applicant is outside approved project timelines on other projects funded by MCST, and where the applicant is in recognised default.
• Any application submitted by or including the participation of any legal person or legal entity having, in totality or in majority ownership, the same shareholders, partners or persons holding and/ or exercising a controlling power in any other legal entity which will have been at any time prior to such application declared as non-compliant or defaulting on any other contract or agreement entered into with MCST, shall be automatically declared as inadmissible.

For more information, visit MCST.