Pro-Rector Prof. Godfrey Baldacchino (International Development & Quality Assurance), with Ms Aishath Shaheen, Ms Fathimath Shadiya and Dr Ruben Paul Borg.
CABARET is a European Union-funded research project that focuses on resilience and the vulnerabilities of the built environment, with partners from Europe and Asia. The collaboration in which academics from the University of Malta are active deals with actions on structures that can, or have been, impacted by catastrophic events, resource and waste management, construction and building materials, within the particular contexts of small island (and often archipelagic) states.
As part of this research project, the University of Malta recently welcomed Ms Aishath Shaheen (Deputy Vice-Chancellor) and Ms Fathimath Shadiya (Lecturer in Development Practice), both from the Maldives National University (MNU), based in the capital Male (14-17 February 2018 ). The Maldives is an Indian Ocean archipelago consisting of low-elevation coral atolls with a total land area and resident population quite similar to that of Malta.
Following discussions, there are promising indications that the Government of the Maldives may support MNU staff for postgraduate training at the University of Malta.
The focal point for CABARET at the University of Malta is Dr Ruben Paul Borg, Faculty for the Built Environment: ruben.p.borg@um.edu.mt