Malta Intellectual Property Award 2021

Awards Ceremony

The ceremony was held to reward the winners of the 12th edition of the annual initiative organised by the Commerce Department, which is part of the Ministry for the Economy and Industry. This initiative is the “Malta Intellectual Property Awards 2021”.

The Malta Intellectual Property Awards are aimed at promoting the creation of Intellectual Property in Malta and recognizes both innovative projects originating from people who are fairly new in their field and of those made by people of experience in the creative, scientific and technological sector.

This year around €50,000 was distributed in prizes. It is gratifying, particularly given the circumstances in which we are living, that for this edition we had a high-level of projects with a range of initiatives in the field of health, engineering, digital arts, culture and arts, medical research and technology education.

The winners of the “Malta Intellectual Property Award 2021” were:

Intellectual Property for Creative Initiative Award

Winner

‘Għidli Ħolma – A Hybrid Animated Story about St. James Cavalier, in collaboration with ŻiguŻajg International Arts Festival 2021 and Spazju Kreattiv’ – Mr Neil Zammit – Toontuloon Ltd

Runner-up

‘Dreams of a City’ – Mr Martin Bonnici – Shadeena Entertainment Ltd

Category – Intellectual Property for Scientific Initiative Award

Winner

‘Rapid Safe Production of Induced Pluripotent Stem cells – Towards Cures for Many Diseases’ – Prof. Pierre Schembri Wismayer MD

Runner-up

‘Biodegradable Implants for Orthopaedic Scaffold Applications (BioSA)’ – Prof. Ing. Joseph Buhagiar, Prof. Ing. Maurice Grech, Prof. Pierre Schembri Wismayer MD, Dr Arif Rochman, Ms Christabelle Tonna and Mr Albert Curmi

Intellectual Property for Technological Initiative Award

Winner

‘An Innovative ADjustAble Motorcycle Simulator (ADAMS)’ – Prof. Ing. Philip Farrugia

Runner-up

‘MedSolar’ – Prof. Luciano Mule Stagno, Dr Ing. Daniel Micallef and Mr Alexander Tanti

Intellectual Property – Emergent Innovator: age between 16 and 30 years for Creative Initiative

Winner

‘Flabbergasted! A digital first tabletop roleplaying game’ – Ms Fleur Sciortino and Ms Chelsea Sciortino

Intellectual Property Award – Emergent Innovator: 31 years old and over for Technological Initiative

Winner

‘A Novel Evaporative Cooling Method for Lithium-ion Batteries’ – Dr Robert Camilleri

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