Research Networking Scheme 2024 (Malta)

Networking Scheme: opportunities for collaborative initiatives between Maltese entities and at least one foreign entity of proven track record of excellence. Proposals should describe the nature of the joint activities that would be funded through the Award. Applicants are to demonstrate how the proposed activities contribute towards and align with achieving the goals of the National R&I Strategy, and to describe the potential of any activities to become self-sustaining or generate longer-term outcomes.

Open Access Journal Support: this new opportunity will support researchers who have already benefited from MCST research grants to publish their research done on a peer reviewed open access journal.

Funding Information

• The amount of aid awarded to any one successful applicant under the Networking Scheme is capped at €8,000.
• Applicants who apply for the Open Access Journal Support can have their grant increased by a maximum of €4,000, totalling to up to €12,000.

Eligibility Criteria

• The applicant must be an eligible undertaking that carries out an economic activity within the meaning of Article 107 TFEU.
• Applicants who have other funded projects with the Council and are in default, and/or have gone beyond the timelines of the project, are not eligible to participate.
• The applicant must be an entity registered as one of the following:
  • Public research and knowledge-dissemination organisation whose main activities are education which is not offered for remuneration and independent research whose results are widely disseminated on a non-discriminatory basis;
  • Public entity that does not offer goods or services on a market for remuneration.
• Funding under this scheme is made available on the basis that the Applicant has not benefited and will not benefit from any other grant or financial incentive of whatever nature, applied for and/or utilised for the same scope as that subject of the funding requested under this scheme.
• Networking Scheme: Eligible applicants are to partner up with international institutions with a proven track record of excellence and experience in the research and innovation field that will form the basis for cooperation.
• Open Access Journal Support: Eligible applicants can apply for a grant to publish their research on an open access journal. The published research should be related to other research projects funded by the Council.

Ineligibility Criteria

• 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 declares as non-compliant or defaulting on any other contract or agreement entered into with the Council, shall be automatically declared as inadmissible.
• Applicants who have other funded projects with the Council and are in default, and/or have gone beyond the timelines of the project, are not eligible to participate.

For more information, visit MCST.