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COMEONLABELS

The ComeOn Labels project aims to summarise the best European experience related to the energy labelling of household appliances and supporting the proper implementation of the new labelling scheme as soon as it will be enforced. Its goal is to enhance the visibility and credibility given to the EU energy label and to improve the market for labelled products.

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Our Search for Water

This effort is mappping the perched aquifer springs and water galleries across the Maltese islands; and the resulting aqueduct infrastructure built during the time of the Knghts and the British period. This is a hybrid between archival digitisation, historical geography and GIS mapping for environmental resource management.

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GPWind

The GP WIND project will address barriers to the deployment of onshore and offshore wind generation, specifically by recording and sharing good practice in reconciling objectives on renewable energy with wider environmental objectives and actively involving communities in planning and implementation.

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DIGESPO

The DiGeSPo project concept is a modular 1-3 kWe, 3-9 kWth micro Combined Heat and Power (m-CHP) system based on innovative Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) and Stirling engine technology. This CSP m-CHP will provide electrical power, heating and cooling for single and multiple domestic dwellings and other small commercial, industrial and public buildings.

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Smartmuseum

The overall objective of the project is to develop a platform for innovative services enhancing on-site personalised access to digital cultural heritage through adaptive and privacy preserving user profiling.

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E-Seap

The main objective is to establish an award scheme that acts as the framework for the adoption of intelligent energy usage patterns in multi-residential buildings (prison institutions) and their communities.

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ECCC

The “European Citizens Climate Cup” (ECCC) is a competition of private households within and between countries. It aims to demonstrate that everybody can save energy significantly and even beat the reduction targets of the European Union and its member states.

About

Projects in Motion Ltd. (PiM) is a multidisciplinary research organisation and cluster platform based in Malta that undertakes EU-funded collaborative projects which cover innovative issues related to information communication technologies (ICT), sustainable energy and social issues. We literally re-align our organizational strategy and design in a way that supports sustainable innovation and the task at hand.

R&D

We recognise that developing a commercially viable new service or product takes more than just a good idea. It involves innovative industrial design, engineering, manufacturing and expert input from a number of other professional fields. PiM blends traditional and innovative methodologies to identify breakthrough opportunities, develop growth strategies and consumer-inspired new products.

Energy

PIM's aims in the renewable energy sector are to increase knowledge on sustainable development & energy solutions, and to help develop awareness through local initiatives for the intelligent use and conservation of energy requirements. Projects in Motion is currently undertaking R&D on the integration of 'Concentrated Solar Power' in novel applications like CHP, desalination and solar cooling.

Dialogue

We also conduct research and continuous monitoring of social and cultural trends in Malta that combine robust qualitative and quantitative methods with innovative analysis and thinking, and undertake dissemination actions and structured dialogue on a wide range of social topics. We also focus on other issues and topics simply because we find them important and interesting; and because we can.