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Malta Enterprise and T-Systems have signed an MOU to offer Blockchain Ecosystem services for companies setting up their blockchain project in Malta.

The signing, which made Malta Enterprise the first partner for the T-Systems Blockchain Ecosystem, took place during Digital X, Europe’s biggest cross-sectoral digitalization initiative.

T-Systems will offer its business customers a "Blockchain Ecosystem" from 2020. The new marketplace provides secure, compliant and rapidly deployable blockchain services.

Malta Enterprise, with the support of the European Commission through the SRSP (Structural Reforms Support Programme) and Euler Hermes, organised a workshop with the objective of presenting results of a study to identify export credit guarantee products and the target operating model best-suited to be introduced in Malta. The workshop provided business representatives and key stakeholders with an opportunity to discuss and share their views prior the final report due to be presented by end November 2019.

Lufthansa Technik Malta will be investing 25 million euro to expand its facility in Malta after signing an agreement with Malta Industrial Parks Ltd (MIP) for the allocation of 21,000 square metres of land adjacent to its existing hangars.

Through this investment, which is also being facilitated by Malta Enterprise through the support it provides companies to set up and grow in Malta, the company will be building another hangar in which it will be able to service a wide-bodied aircraft and a narrow-bodied aircraft together at any one time.

Malta Enterprise is taking a leading role in bringing together academia and industry, in order to nourish further collaboration and synergies between the key stakeholders. 

To this end, Malta Enterprise organised a roundtable to further discuss the current challenges faced by the industry. Such initiatives work to further develop Malta’s research and innovation ecosystem — which is one of the agency’s primary aims, as collaboration between industry, the public sector and academia remains critical to sustaining both economic and social development. 

As part of its continuous efforts to sustain the local startup ecosystem, Malta Enterprise organised two events within the space of a few days with the aim of supporting new startups as well as youths interested in starting their own business.

As part of its continuous engagement with startups, entrepreneurs, investors, and young persons thinking of their own future business, Malta Enterprise is dedicating October 2019 to the startup community, culminating in two separate events being held towards the middle of the month.

The Malta Enterprise Board of Directors has appointed Kurt Farrugia to the role of CEO of Malta Enterprise. Mr Farrugia will take up the role on the 1st of August, 2019 following the retirement of current CEO Mario Galea.

A technical delegation led by Malta Enterprise and comprising representatives from Trade Malta, Transport Malta, the Malta Medicines Authority, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Trade Promotion, as well as the High Commission of Malta in Ghana and the designate Ambassador to the African Union visited Ghana to discuss opportunities for trade and investment.

A delegation from Malta Enterprise and the Malta Life Sciences Park visited the city of Tartu in Estonia for a study visit focusing on Smart Specialisation and its application to traditional sectors, particularly the wood and food industries.