Your Home for Research & Innovation in Malta

The Foundation for Innovation and Research – Malta (FiR.mt) is the home for researchers, innovators, public authorities, and industry partners seeking to connect excellence with real-world impact.

As a Maltese-based Research Institute that is referred to as Research and Technology Organisation (RTO) or Research and Dissemination Organisation, FiR.mt supports collaboration across disciplines and sectors, enabling partners to move from early ideas to funded actions, pilots, and deployment. We actively position research within the evolving European landscape, supporting forward-looking initiatives aligned with upcoming European and local programmes, including Horizon Europe.

FiR.mt plays a bridging role between research and implementation, between disciplines, and between Malta, Europe, and the wider Mediterranean region.

What You Can Do with FiR.mt

FiR.mt provides an environment where research and innovation can be designed, tested, coordinated, and scaled, while informing public policy.

Working with us, partners can:

• Join or build European and international consortia
• Shape research concepts early, before calls are published
• Test and validate solutions in real-world Living Labs
• Access coordination, management, and delivery support
• Generate evidence for policy, regulation, and deployment
• Translate research outcomes into deployable and scalable solutions

Our approach reduces proposal risk, strengthens implementation readiness, and accelerates impact.

A Home for Collaboration Across Sectors

FiR.mt supports cross-sector collaboration across a wide range of domains, including:

• energy systems and smart grids
• photovoltaics, renewables, and reliability
• digitalisation, AI, and data platforms
• mobility, infrastructure, and the built environment
• climate, environment, and resilience
• social sciences, skills, education, and citizen engagement

By working across disciplines, FiR.mt ensures that technological development is aligned with societal needs, regulatory frameworks, and long-term sustainability.

Our Living Labs and Infrastructure

FiR.mt hosts and coordinates Living Labs and research infrastructure designed to operate under real-world conditions.

These environments enable:

• standards-aligned monitoring and data collection
• long-term performance and reliability studies
• digital experimentation and system integration
• replicable pilots and demonstrators
• open science and FAIR data practices

Our Living Labs are engineered to support both research excellence and innovation actions, strengthening exploitation pathways and deployment readiness.

Supporting Researchers and Innovators

FiR.mt is home to local and international researchers, from early-career to senior level, and actively supports talent development and mobility.

We provide:

• opportunities to join funded projects and consortia
• access to infrastructure, data, and experimental environments
• mentoring, training, and networking
• collaboration with academic institutions for co-supervision at Masters (MQF Level 7) and Doctoral (MQF Level 8) levels
• inclusive and supportive working environments aligned with the Charter for Researchers, gender equality, and diversity principles

Our aim is to foster excellence while supporting brain gain and long-term capacity building.

From Research to Impact

FiR.mt ensures continuity between ongoing projects and future European priorities.

Knowledge and results generated today feed directly into:

• new research concepts and proposals
• pilots and demonstrators
• policy-relevant evidence and recommendations
• scalable solutions aligned with European deployment strategies

This continuity ensures that research remains relevant beyond individual projects and funding cycles.

Explore and Connect FiR.mt acts as a gateway to:

• People – our team, researchers, and collaborators
• Projects – active European and national initiatives
• Infrastructure & Living Labs – experimentation and validation environments
• Societal Impact – cross-disciplinary work integrating SSH, education, and citizen engagement

Whether you are a researcher, innovator, policymaker, or industry partner, FiR.mt provides a trusted environment to collaborate, test ideas, and build impactful research actions.

Let’s Build What Comes Next

FiR.mt welcomes early discussions with partners interested in future-oriented research, Living Lab collaboration, and strategic positioning ahead of upcoming European calls.

To explore opportunities or start a conversation, contact us at
info[at]fir.mt

Link to

Our Infrastructure & Living Lab

Opportunities for Researcher

Contact FiR.mt info[at]fir.mt