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About Fabian Borg

Fabian Borg is an award-winning, eminent environmental scientist and Head of the Research Innovation Unit (RIU). With an extensive academic background, including a Master’s with Distinction in Leadership and Management, Fabian has committed his career to addressing urgent environmental challenges, focusing on Urban Heat Islands (UHI), climate resilience, and public-facing high-impact data visualisations. His pioneering research on UHI, using data from NASA/USGS Landsat satellites, has revealed alarming rises in urban temperatures across Malta, highlighting the need for urgent climate adaptation measures.

GoGreenRoutes Summer School – 360 Health, Malta

The Gzira Local Council, in conjunction with the Research Innovation Unit, hosted the GoGreenRoutes Summer School - 360 Health in Malta between the 29th of June and the 1st of July 2022. The summer school was inaugurated with keynotes from the Mayor of Gzira, Mr Conrad Borg Manche, Hon. Dr Stefan Zrinzo Azzopardi MP, [...]

The New European Bauhaus Festival, Brussels

On June 9-12, 2022, members of the Research Innovation Unit and the rest of the JUSTNature project team and sister projects VARCITIES and SciCulture shared a booth at the New European Bauhaus Festival in Brussels. The Research Innovation Unit, on behalf of the Gzira Local Council, presented the interventions in the research and implementation [...]

JUSTNature Consortium and Progress Meeting 1, Munich

Members of the Research Innovation Unit on behalf of the Gzira Local Council attended the first in-person consortium and progress meeting of JUSTNature after 8 months of online interactions due to the limitations imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The in-person meeting was held in Munich between the 2nd and the 4th of May 2022 [...]

European Committee of the Regions 9th Summit – Marseille, France

A first of the Local Government of Malta, the Research Innovation Unit of the Gzira Local Council took part in the virtual fair of the European Union Committee of the Regions (CoR) 9th Summit which was held in Marseille between the 3rd and the 4th of March 2022. The 9th Summit held in Marseille [...]

Biodiversity Climate Change Stakeholders Conference (BCCS), Malta

The Gzira Local Council, assisted by the Research Innovation Unit in conjunction with ACe20, hosted the first international conference on biodiversity, climate crises and stakeholders in the locality of Gzira under the auspicious of Europe for Citizens Programme funded programme - Town Twinning Project GREAT – Growing Resilient Engagement Activities Together. As the lead [...]

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