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maltatoday WEDNESDAY 15 NOVEMBER 2017 17 Events TradeMalta announces the winners for Malta International Business Awards THE six winners of the first- ever Malta International Busi- ness Awards (MIBA) were an- nounced on Friday. The awards were organised to honour the achievements of Malta-based companies seeking to do inter- national business by selling their products and services abroad. Representing the best of Mal- tese exports to the world, the winners of the six categories of MIBA are: Small Business: 365 Squared, award presented by Big Exhibits Medium-Sized Business: Al- taro Software, award presented by BPC International Ltd Large Business: Toly Group, award presented by TradeMalta Emerging Markets: Medserv, award presented by HSBC Bank Malta Innovation Exporter: Ascent Software, award, Presented by Grant Thornton High Potential Exporter: Thynk Software, award present- ed by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Trade Promotion A seventh award, representing the overall winner of the MIBA was also announced during the evening. Toly Group won this award which was presented by the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Promotion Carmelo Abela. The event was endorsed by the Office of the Prime Minister and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Trade Promotion. Trade- Malta organised the events to- gether with its strategic partner HSBC Bank Malta. Other spon- sors included Grant Thornton, Big Exhibits, and BPC Inter- national Ltd. The awards ceremony was held during a gala dinner on held at The Radisson Blu Re- sort, St Julian's. For the inaugural edition, TradeMalta received a total of 38 applications contain- ing more than 900 support- ing documents. The finalists have been identified follow- ing a rigorous scoring pro- cess which was published with the Entrant Guide and each participant was asked to submit documentation pertaining to a host of pa- rameters, including interna- tional turnover, profitability, internationalisation efforts, competitive advantage, and innovation and internation- alisation capacity. The audit firm Grant Thornton assist- ed in the scoring of the sub- mitted applications. LAST week, a consortium of six Eu- ropean higher educational institu- tions addressed a Media Conference held at the Hotel Kennedy Nova in Gzira to launch an innovative on-line programme which is certified by the National Commission for Further & Higher Education in Malta, the NCF- HE, and is co-funded by Erasmus+. This is an eighteen month on-line 90 ECTS Credits Level 7 Masters pro- gramme led by Advenio eAcademy with the participation of another five European HEIs including the Univer- sity of Ioannina – Greece, Szent István University – Hungary, University of Bari Aldo Moro - Italy, University of Žilina - Slovakia, and Poltava University of Eco- nomics & Trade - Ukraine. Each of the representatives of the HEIs spoke briefly on the motivation of their Universities to join the project which sought to iden- tify and develop best practice in on-line learning at post graduate level for entre- preneurs. Stephen D'Alessandro, director of Ad- venio eAcademy the lead partner in the consortium, spoke about the shared ob- jectives of the consortium to develop and enhance best practices in on-line gradu- ate education. He said that the MHEI- ME was an innovative programme in many ways, primarily because: • It is the fruit of collaboration over the past three years between six Eu- ropean Higher Educational Institu- tions; • It is an on-line course designed as a holistic programme, delivered in English and integrating six founda- tion subjects and three specialist subjects, an internship module and a business plan module; • It provides a combination of self- learning and collaborative learning activities designed to meet the needs of international graduate entrepre- neurs who require post graduate education which will give them a competitive advantage in leading their SME organisations; • It is an online course certified in Malta by the NCFHE providing stu- dents with a certainty on the validity of the ECTS accreditation at Masters level; D'Alessandro thanked the GRTU Chamber of SMEs and the Malta Em- ployers' Association for their support and encouragement reflected by their presence at the launch of an activity which should be of direct benefit to their members. The MHEI-ME is an Erasmus+ co- funded project reflecting the EU recog- nition of the initiative. This co-funding also provides for granting of scholar- ships to students on the first intake com- mencing in April 2018. Applications for Intake 1 are now open to entrepreneurs in possession of a first degree and direct experience in the SME sector. For fur- ther details contact admin@aea.acad- emy Launch of the Multiple Higher Educational Institutions – Masters in Entrepreneurship (MHEI-ME) on-line programme Yobetit sponsors Swieqi Phoenix Handball Club YOBETIT insist they're not just in the game for making money but do their best to sponsor a number of charities and events as well as some sports clubs to make their life easi- er. One of the clubs that they sponsor is Swieqi Yobetit Phoe- nix who were formed as a club in 2010 and are currently one of the most successful clubs around. The club managed to start off this season with a bang, winning the Independence Cup in September – a consid- erable achievement. The handball league in Malta is made up of five clubs with five teams competing in the highest division and eight teams com- peting in the 2nd Di- vision in the men's category. After tak- ing a look at the sport and the dedication of the club to their ideals, a collabora- tion and sponsorship agreement was signed between Yobetit and Swieqi Phoenix in June 2017, making Yobetit the main sponsor of the club. The Malta Handball Cup is played out once every year and this time there were five teams participating: Swieqi Yobetit Phoe- nix, Luxol, La Salle Multilotto, Aloysians ProMinent & Kavalli- eri RS2. Swieqi Yobetit finished runners-up of the competition after winning three games and suffering a tight loss against Aloysians Prominent Handball Club, that ended up winning the competi- tion. The competition was only for first divi- sion teams. The Malta Handball League kicked off this past Saturday with Swieqi Yobetit pitted against the current champions Aloysians Prominent Handball Club. The campaign got on to a great start with a fine victory for Swieqi Yobetit by 28 to 20. Swieqi Yobet- it Phoenix can be reached at info@psc. com.mt .