Policy dossier: Malta
A one-country brief on Malta in European quantum technologies for policy makers, built only from data this portal already holds. Every figure names its source and reference date; ratios come with the counts they are made of. Nothing here is a ranking or a composite score: counts describe catalogue coverage, not national capability.
Dossier generated 2026-11-03 13:31:17 (UTC). Missing data is listed under Gaps and caveats at the end.
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1. EU funding absorption
CORDIS covers Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe quantum projects only: no other EU programme, no national or regional funding.
| Country or group | Participations | EU contribution | Population (year) | GDP, current prices (year) | Participations per million inhabitants | EU contribution per inhabitant | Participations per EUR billion of GDP | EU contribution per EUR billion of GDP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Malta (this dossier) | 10 | EUR 1.9 million | 588,254 (2026) | EUR 24.66 billion (2025) | 17.0 | EUR 3.24 | 0.41 | EUR 77,267 |
| EU27 average (pooled) | 3,714 | EUR 2.28 billion | 451,990,314 (2026) | EUR 18,883.19 billion (2025) | 8.2 | EUR 5.04 | 0.20 | EUR 120,646 |
| Peer group average (pooled: LU, CY, EE, LV) | 67 | EUR 27.8 million | 4,893,371 (2026) | EUR 215.18 billion (2025) | 13.7 | EUR 5.68 | 0.31 | EUR 129,244 |
| Luxembourg (peer by population) | 21 | EUR 11.3 million | 690,959 (2026) | EUR 91.34 billion (2025, provisional) | 30.4 | EUR 16.34 | 0.23 | EUR 123,609 |
| Cyprus (peer by GDP) | 22 | EUR 9.7 million | 996,571 (2026, provisional) | EUR 38.31 billion (2025, provisional) | 22.1 | EUR 9.70 | 0.57 | EUR 252,400 |
| Estonia (peer by GDP) | 10 | EUR 3.2 million | 1,360,745 (2026) | EUR 41.87 billion (2025) | 7.3 | EUR 2.35 | 0.24 | EUR 76,461 |
| Latvia (peer by GDP) | 14 | EUR 3.6 million | 1,845,096 (2026) | EUR 43.65 billion (2025) | 7.6 | EUR 1.98 | 0.32 | EUR 83,570 |
Definitions: Participations by country; Net EU contribution to participants by country; Population, GDP and GERD (Eurostat); Participations per million inhabitants; Net EU contribution per inhabitant; Participations per EUR billion of GDP; Net EU contribution per EUR billion of GDP
Peer group: Luxembourg (closest in population), Cyprus (closest in GDP), Estonia (closest in GDP), Latvia (closest in GDP). The peers are the 4 EU Member States closest to Malta in population or in GDP, whichever is closer for each: the smaller of the absolute log ratios of the two figures, latest Eurostat year of each country, ties by country code. Candidates are the Member States with a CORDIS row and both Eurostat figures.
Method: participations and EU contribution are CORDIS totals over all start years in the catalogue; population on 1 January and GDP at current prices are the latest single year Eurostat publishes for each country, so the ratios correct for size, not for time. Group averages are pooled: the group totals divided by the group population or GDP, never a mean of country ratios. The EU27 average pools 27 Member States. A dash means that a figure is not published or that the EU contribution is zero; "less than" marks a positive figure too small to show at this precision.
Source: CORDIS, Publications Office of the European Union, retrieved 2026-10-16, reused under the European Commission reuse notice. Eurostat datasets tps00001 (Population on 1 January, updated 2026-09-30); nama_10_gdp (Gross domestic product (GDP) and main components (output, expenditure and income) - annual data, updated 2026-10-20), retrieved 2026-10-21, reused under the Eurostat copyright notice. The ratios are calculated by this portal; neither source is responsible for them.
2. Specialisation by application pillar
| Pillar | Projects of Malta | Share of its projects | EU27 projects | EU27 share | Ratio (country share / EU27 share) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quantum computing and simulation | fewer than 10 | not shown | 516 | 48.3% | not shown |
| Quantum communication | fewer than 10 | not shown | 116 | 10.9% | not shown |
| Quantum sensing and metrology | fewer than 10 | not shown | 189 | 17.7% | not shown |
| Enabling technologies and supply chain | fewer than 10 | not shown | 49 | 4.6% | not shown |
Definition: Specialisation by pillar against the EU27
Method: the share of the CORDIS quantum projects of the country in each pillar, divided by the same share for the EU27 (projects with at least one participant from a Member State). A ratio above 1 means the pillar weighs more in the projects of this country than in those of the EU27; it says nothing about size or quality. No count, share or ratio is shown from fewer than 10 projects of the country. Pillars follow the portal method (confirmed classification, else the taxonomy rules on the title, else a matched keyword suggestion); a project in several pillars counts in each, and fewer than 10 projects of this country are not placed in a pillar.
Source: CORDIS project snapshot, 1,256 projects (Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe), retrieved 2026-10-16; counts computed by this portal on 2026-11-02 14:13:03 (UTC).
3. Collaboration: top partner countries
| Partner country | Shared projects |
|---|---|
| France | 7 |
| Italy | 6 |
| Spain | 6 |
| Austria | 4 |
| Germany | 4 |
| Ireland | 4 |
| Netherlands | 4 |
| Poland | 4 |
| Portugal | 4 |
| United Kingdom | 4 |
Definition: Top partner countries
A project is shared when organisations of both countries take part in it; this shows co-participation, not the strength of a relationship. Counts cover CORDIS quantum projects only (Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe).
Source: CORDIS, Publications Office of the European Union (CORDIS), retrieved 2026-10-16, reused under the European Commission reuse notice (Decision 2011/833/EU); shared projects counted by this portal.
4. National programmes and public investment
The public investment registry has no national programme or financing record for this country (compiled 2026-10-27; not exhaustive).
National sources and cohesion funding on this portal
No national open-data source or national funder of this country is connected to the portal yet.
| Source | Publisher | Licence | Last read (UTC) | Published on this portal |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kohesio (EU cohesion policy projects) | European Commission, Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO) | CC0 1.0 (Cohesion Open Data Platform, dataset 2014-2020 Kohesio projects) | 2026-10-28 | 0 projects located in this country |
Definition: Records of connected national sources
Counts of records published on this portal at the time of the dossier, with node access; open notices only for procurement sources. Cohesion projects (Kohesio, EU cohesion policy, managed by national and regional authorities) are located in the country by the source; they are not in CORDIS and not part of the absorption figures. The record at each source is authoritative.
5. Infrastructure
EuroQCI: yes. EuroQCI projects located in this country in the catalogue: PRISM.
| Entry | Kind | Status | Programmes | Official source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PRISM | Quantum communication network project | Project period ended, per the source | EuroQCI | PRISM EuroQCI: Quantum Communication Network in Malta (retrieved 2026-10-22) |
Definition: Infrastructure catalogue entries in the country
Source: the infrastructure catalogue of this portal, compiled 2026-10-27 from official programme, government and host pages; a referral list, not confirmed by the providers.
6. Post-quantum cryptography readiness
National guidance status: Not verified (checked 2026-10-27). National agency whose pages were checked: Government of Malta (competent cybersecurity body not confirmed).
Every gov.mt site tried answered with a bot challenge (HTTP 403), which was not bypassed, so neither the competent body nor any PQC guidance could be checked. Retried on 27 October 2026 with a plain request: still a bot challenge (HTTP 403 or a browser verification redirect), not bypassed. Next attempt: an editor in an ordinary browser at the next 30-day review, by 26 November 2026.
Source: the PQC guide of this portal, compiled 2026-10-27 from official national pages; a status, not a legal or compliance assessment.
7. Approved evidence from published reports
No approved figure from a published report names this country yet. Figures appear here only after an editor has approved them.
8. Gaps and caveats
- Specialisation: Every pillar has fewer than 10 projects of this country: no share or ratio is shown.
- National programmes: The public investment registry has no national programme or financing record for this country; the registry is not exhaustive.
- National programmes: No national open-data source or national funder of this country is connected to the portal.
- PQC readiness: The national PQC status could not be verified: an official page could not be read.
- Evidence: No approved figure from a published report names this country yet.
- Always: CORDIS covers Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe quantum projects only, found by the word quantum in their title, acronym or topic; it is catalogue coverage, not a census. National budgets, private investment and other EU programmes are not in the absorption figures.
- Always: no league table or composite score is computed; a ratio is only as good as its counts, which are shown next to it.