Will your name be among MedTech’s top innovators in 2025? From a limestone-walled lab in Msida to a start-up garage in Gżira, Malta is quietly incubating the next wave of medical-technology pioneers—and the global clock is ticking. The question is no longer whether the islands can play in the big leagues, but whose signature will…
**University of Malta Launches Ground-Breaking Academic Journal on Gender and Sexuality** The University of Malta has announced the launch of a pioneering academic journal dedicated to gender and sexuality studies, marking a significant milestone for the island nation’s academic and LGBTQ+ communities. The publication, titled “Journal of Mediterranean Gender and Sexuality Studies,” will serve as…
Valletta’s Republic Street is not where you’d expect to see children shrieking with delight over liquid-nitrogen ice-cream, or pensioners debating quantum dots with PhD students. Yet every last Friday of September the capital morphs into an open-air laboratory for “Science in the City” – the Mediterranean’s largest research festival and Malta’s loudest statement that test…
BOV Club turns University of Malta Freshers’ Week into a crash-course in financial adulthood By [Author Name] | September 2024 SLIEMA, Malta – While first-year students queued for free pizza and faculty tote bags outside the University of Malta quadrangle this week, a longer line snaked toward a turquoise-coloured kiosk emblazoned with a single word:…
**Cutting university funds is a cost too high** *By [Author Name], Hot Malta* Walk down Republic Street on a weekday afternoon and you’ll see them: clusters of students in hoodies emblazoned with the University of Malta crest, arguing over espressos about AI ethics, Baroque apses, or whether the latest EU directive will sink the family…
**Sliema startup’s ‘study buddy’ AI promises to turn Malta into the Mediterranean’s smartest island** The bell at the University of Malta’s Msida campus hasn’t even finished echoing across the quadrangle when a knot of students outside the library already have their phones out. But they’re not scrolling TikTok – they’re talking to “Ari”, a new…
**From Knights’ Armour to Space Age: How Maltese Scientists Are Giving 3D-Printed Titanium a GLAM Make-Over** *By our science & culture correspondent* Valletta’s golden limestone façades have reflected every era—from the bronze cannons of the Knights to the carbon-fibre drones that now hover above Grand Harbour. Yet behind the baroque balconies a quieter revolution is…
**Watch: Living with a talking dog and a man who interrupts exams – the Maltese TikTok duo taking the island by storm** A talking Shiba Inu with opinions on ħobż biż-żejt and a human who gate-crashes University of Malta lectures to ask whether dogs should get stipends too: welcome to the chaotic, cult-hit world of…
**New Park-and-Ride to run from Ta’ Qali to Mater Dei and university** After years of gridlocked mornings along the Birkirkara bypass and expletive-laden hunts for parking in Msida, Malta is finally rolling out a lifeline for commuters: a permanent Park-and-Ride service linking Ta’ Qali to Mater Dei Hospital and the University of Malta. The pilot,…
Gay rights activists disrupt Rebecca Buttigieg speech after member detained ===================================================================== Valletta – A routine parliamentary outreach event turned confrontational on Wednesday evening when activists from Malta’s LGBTQ+ community interrupted a public address by Labour MP Rebecca Buttigieg, protesting the brief detention of a fellow campaigner outside the University of Malta conference hall. The activist,…
Charlie Kirk, the 30-year-old American conservative firebrand who helped turn college campuses into culture-war battlegrounds, was shot and killed Monday night while speaking at the University of Arizona. The news reached Malta just after dawn, ricocheting through Valletta cafés, university corridors and parish squares with the same stunned disbelief that greeted the 2021 Capitol riot….
**Valletta Reacts After US Conservative Star Charlie Kirk Shot on Arizona Campus** Valletta’s Republic Street cafés were still buzzing with Monday-morning espresso chatter when the push notification landed: Charlie Kirk, the 30-year-old American right-wing firebrand who headlined a Maltese youth conference only eight months ago, had been shot and wounded while touring Arizona State University….
