Launch Of COVID-19 R&D Fund

Further to the approval by the European Commission of Malta's ?5.3million R&D scheme, on 23^rd April the Malta Council for Science and Technology (MCAST) launched the 'COVID-19 R&D Fund'. The Fund is a mechanism through which cash grants will be given to eligible applicants, i.e. public, academic and private entities, undertaking R&D projects with outcomes addressing innovative and/or improved approaches with regards to current and/or future infectious disease prevention, control and contain the spread and other antiviral relevant research.

The R&D project proposals should be novel and not correspond with ongoing or completed projects funded by other instruments, programmes or projects.