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Box 3: Development of the
National Innovation System
Competition
Competition for age13-17
and 18 & over
254 entries in 2012/2013
305 entries for 2014/2015
Box 4: Community-
Centered Design and
Innovation
Over 100% increase in
participation
75 students from 9
schools trained in
AutoCAD
ninety per cent (90%) of the $46.3 million allocated, some key projects were funded to
support this initiative which include:
Planning for the Sci-TechKnoFest 2013 which will focus on Human
Ingenuity. Over one hundred and one (101) exhibits will be displayed and
thousands of persons are estimated to attend the Festival in October 2013
Developing the National Innovation
System included staging a Prime
Minister‟s
Award
for
Scientific
Ingenuity, encouraging work on robotics
and renewable energy. In 2013, over
three hundred and five (305) entries have
been submitted to this competition.
Research and Development Foresighting
involves the study on jobs for future growth. Assistance continued with
research on scoping the market identifying business models and standards
for the health and wellness sector
Exhibitions on the Environment have commenced under the Rainwater
Harvesting project with installations at Inverness Presbyterian School and
Cunjal Government Primary School in Barrackpore. Solar panels for the
water pump were also installed at
Rochard Douglas Presbyterian Primary
School.
Community
Centred
Design and Innovation (COMDESI)
continued its programme and conducted
training which assisted students in
successfully building prototype versions
of their ideas.
NISTADS and NIHERST
collaborated for the conference which was held on June 4 2013 in which The
Vice Minister of Science and Technology, Costa Rica, gave greetings and
the keynote address was given by the Chairman of Malta Council for
Science and Technology
