In July 2023, Malta found itself in an unprecedented "Cerberus" heatwave. The searing temperatures and stifling humidity disrupted daily life and underscored the profound vulnerabilities posed by extreme heat events in the Mediterranean. This was not an isolated incident but a harbinger of the escalating impacts of climate change, where heatwaves are becoming more frequent, [...]
26th May 2023, the head of the Research Innovation Unit Mr Fabian Borg and his tandem Dr Edward Duca of University of Malta attended the BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt Re*Leadership Festival held at Banegaarden, Copenhagen. The festival marked their successful completion of RISE Cities Fellowship and contemporary their accession to the BMW Foundation Responsible [...]
Science teachers Dr. Doreen Mizzi, Ms. Shirley Bonnici Spiteri and Ms. Wendy Sultana from Stella Maris College, Gzira presented the JUSTNature Tree Inventory exercise in the MOST Expo that is currently underway in the Netherlands. On the 15 December 2022, over 100 students, teachers, LSEs, and members from the senior leadership team of Stella [...]
5th May 2023, the Research Innovation Unit held a local stakeholder workshop of the European Commission Horizon 2020 funded project – JUSTNature. This hybrid workshop, hosted at the Gzira Local Council, inaugurated the synergy initiated by the Eastern Regional Council between stakeholders NASA’s The GLOBE Program, Xrobb L-Ghagin Nature Park and Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre [...]
Between the 6th and 9th of March, a member of the Research Innovation Unit attended the 3rd Progress Meeting of JUSTNature in Szombathely, Hungary. Day 1 In the afternoon of the first day after the meet and greet, we kicked off by reviewing the progress of the project, what we accomplished and the problems [...]
