Calls for proposals are issued regularly by various funding bodies, including the EU Commission and its DGs / Agencies, private companies, the Fusion Programme managed by Xjenza Malta, Territorial Cooperation programmes and foundations, among others.
Such calls and relevant information are circulated to all Resident Academics and Research Support Officers as per mailshot, as well as a dedicated calendar on the RSSD page. Each call has its own guidelines, work programme and proposal forms published by its original portal and national contact point. We advise you to look through these documents with care, especially for all the necessary details about eligibility.
Get in touch with us for further information.
Prior to forwarding the proposal documents to RSSD by email, you need to look into the proposal to see whether the project topic is of interest, whether you have the necessary resources and whether participation would be beneficial to you and your department before deciding to proceed. If you have any queries, please include them in your email to RSSD and the relative team member will contact you shortly.
All such documentation requires signature by our Rector as the Legal Representative, for these documents to be legally valid.
RSSD will initiate the internal approval process, whereby the documents will be reviewed from a Technical, Human Resources, Financial, Legal and Knowledge Transfer points of view. You will be contacted for clarifications if necessary. As soon as Rector signs, you will be notified by RSSD and will forward to you for inclusion in the proposal documents. Refer to our internal deadlines.
No. Only the Rector, Prof. Alfred J. Vella is the Legal Authorised Representative for the University of Malta and therefore is the only representative authorised to sign documents on behalf of the University of Malta. Any other person who signs documents renders the document without any legal value and therefore non-binding.
The Rector always assigns a delegate to act as the Authorised Representative in his stead. Normally such delegate would be one of the Pro-Rectors.
This is dependent upon the extent of support required and the size of the project. If support is required to develop an idea, finding a call and building a consortium, RSSD needs to be involved as early as possible.
Dates are specific to each call and you can find them published in a dedicated calendar by RSSD, or in your inbox as a mailshot from funding.rssd@um.edu.mt .
Generally, draft applications should reach the RSSD office 3 to 6 weeks before the deadline, along with the filled in budget template for each call. Once your application is finalised with the support of RSSD and PSO, all the necessary documents should reach the RSSD office at least 1 week before the deadline.
An SOP (ZRH-008) [PDF] has been written on the review and process of project proposals.