About

Xjenza Malta (Science Malta) established by means of Legal Notice 112 of 2024, is the Malta Government Agency acting as the national R&D and Space-funding agency, and the policy development and implementation body in the area of Research, Innovation and Space. Science Malta is entrusted with the updating of the national R&I and Space policy frameworks, overseeing and coordinating R&I and Space-strategy implementation through programming efforts, including the direct management of the national public budgetary allocation for Research, Innovation and Space.

Science Malta manages and implements the FUSION portfolio, thus financing research endeavours across the entire technology-readiness spectrum, providing a multi-million portfolio primarily via grant-based support. Science Malta also hosts the National Contact Point (NCP) network for Horizon Europe, promoting and ensuring Malta’s overall successful participation in the EU Framework Programme for R&I and related support schemes, while also representing the Government of Malta within the comitology structure of Horizon Europe. The Internationalisation Unit within Science Malta manages Malta’s participation in an increasing number of R&I Co-Fund Partnerships and is actively engaged in developing and expanding bilateral and multilateral R&I collaborative arrangements, including mobility and funding programmes, jointly operated with foreign counterpart bodies.

Science Malta also operates Esplora, which is Malta’s first and only interactive Science Centre, hence delivering on its mission to diffuse science and STEM-based education to the wider public.