On the 9 February, the official launch of the local branch of the Malta Centre was held at the Valletta Campus (UM).

This event was organised in light of the renewal of the agreement between the University of Malta and the University of Bremen, Germany, which was signed in June 2022 and through which, a local branch of this Centre was established. Prof. Thomas Stolz and Maike Vorholt, who are responsible for managing the Malta Centre at the University of Bremen, were invited for this event.

In the first hour, Prof. Fabri, Dr Spagnol and Prof. Stolz gave short speeches about the establishment, history and objectives of the Centre. Additionally, the administrators of the two branches, Maike Vorholt, Michela Vella and Raffaello Bezzina presented a number of future projects and ideas.

In the second hour, Prof. Thomas Stolz gave a talk entitled Special Toponymic Grammar in Maltese and beyond.

In view of the renewal of the agreement, and as an initiative to strengthen the collaboration between the two branches, Maike Vorholt, the administrator of the branch in Bremen, spent a week in Malta. During this week, she and the research officers of the local branch drew up a work plan for the coming months and had several meetings about future projects, including the conference of the International Association of Maltese Linguistics (GĦILM ) which will take place in Bremen coming September.