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From Cinderella to Centre Stage: Malta’s Creative Sector and Vision 2050

A once significantly smaller arts and culture sector is stepping out of the shadows. At a recent Vision 2050 consultation, policymakers, artists, and academics explored how creativity can shape the nation’s future, balancing heritage, innovation, and economic growth. From theatre to publishing, gymnastics to urban design, the long-overlooked Cinderella sector is finally being recognised as central to Malta’s social and economic story.

MedTech World Europe: Connecting Innovation, History, and the Future of Healthcare

Established and growing in Malta, MedTech World is positioning the island as a strategic hub for medical innovation. By blending a forward-looking vision with Malta’s long history of connectivity, care, and resilience, the company is shaping how the next decade of healthcare innovation will unfold.

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Radiation in Medicine: Balancing Benefit and Risk

What if an invisible energy could both reveal disease and help cure it? From diagnostic scans to targeted cancer therapy, radiation drives some of medicine’s most powerful tools. Understanding how this force can both benefit and harm patients is key to using it safely, responsibly, and to its greatest clinical advantage.

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Dear Woman: An Intimate Archive of Becoming Woman

Dear Woman gathers letters, objects, and voices into an intimate, intergenerational archive that traces the transition from girlhood to womanhood through care and collective listening.

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Treasure Hunt: Deciphering What’s Done

Words are one of, if not the most, versatile tools one may employ. They may serve to sway opinions in favour of one’s own, express original knowledge to which one may be credited, and even prolong the memory of an individual long after life’s end. In a sense, words are worlds. However, there is one condition. For words to have power, people need to understand the language. Unfortunately, this isn’t always the case.

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The Art of Access: Dusk Dialogues and the Language of Understanding and Meaning-Making

‘Dusk Dialogues: Conversations on Accessibility’ was a talk which revealed the parallels across the domains of art and education, as both rely on imagination, storytelling, and embodied experience to make ideas more accessible. Speakers Prof. Adrian-Mario Gellel from UM and curator Gabriel Zammit argue that true access can open pathways for everyone, from young people all the way to adulthood.

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When Automation Gets Smart: Lessons from the SMARTSPACK Journey

Manufacturing has come a long way since Ford’s production lines. Modern manufacturing is becoming smarter. But making food package manufacturing smarter presents a host of challenges that the SMARTSPACK project needed to navigate through.

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A Land of Honey

As part of the BEE-OPTECH4Honey project, master’s student Matthew Calleja is seeking to demonstrate that Maltese thyme honey is worthy of a protected status. In discussion with THINK’s Jonathan Firbank, Calleja shares how best to prove it and the benefits PGI status can bring.

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Can Economics Protect the Environment?

How much is Comino worth? €2,000,000? €20,000,000? Surely it is priceless? Yet, when it comes to economics and policy, priceless often means worthless. THINK examines how putting a price on the environment could actually protect it.

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What Monkeys Taught Us About Love and Loneliness

Science has quite a few skeletons tucked away in its closet; small, rhesus monkey-shaped ones. The results of these morbid experiments have moulded how we understand loneliness and love. What happened exactly?

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