ENTITLE Kickoff Meeting Presentation Angele GIULIANO angeleacrosslimits'com

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ENTITLE Kick-off Meeting PresentationAngele
GIULIANOangele_at_acrosslimits.com
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The Malta Experience
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Malta Brief Overview

• Malta very small country 400,000
  inhabitants
• Capital city - Valletta
• High service industries tourism, ICT,
  financial services including betting casinos,
  education
• 98 Roman Catholic (no divorce, no abortion)
• GDP close to 75 of EU-25 average
• New EU member since 1st May 2004
• Euro currency since 1st January 2008
• National language Maltese (semitic origins
  with cocktail of English/Italian words)

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AcrossLimits A Profile

• AcrossLimits is a dynamic SME and creative
  e-Business, secure payment, Internet and
  Knowledge Management Solutions provider based in
  Malta.
• It was registered in 2001 as a Limited Liability
  Company but the team have been working as
  partnership since 1996.
• It has representation offices in Brussels
  (Belgium), Athens (Greece) and Zaragoza (Spain)
• AcrossLimits is also very active on the European
  Programmes Front. In fact, it nowadays is one of
  the most reputable EU Consultancy Firms in Malta.

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AcrossLimits A Profile
'To provide innovative and creative technology
solutions to solve tomorrow's problems'
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Public Libraries in Malta

• A government library in every village school gt68
• A church library in every parish church gt100
• Large government public library in Floriana
  (Malta) and Victoria (Gozo)
• Large historical library archive in Valletta and
  Rabat (Malta)
• Church archives in Mdina and Victoria

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Public perception

• Maltese children are still encouraged to read a
  lot
• Adult population prefers to read in English
  mostly, then in Maltese, Italian and then other
  languages
• Adult population prefers to read periodicals,
  magazines, newspapers rather than books
• Low real participation to public libraries but
  many are members since membership cards are done
  when at school

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Thanks for your attention
AcrossLimits Gateway Centre, Kappillan Mifsud
Street, Hamrun HMR 10 MALTA Tel [phone]
/ 356 99447060 Fax [phone] Web
http//www.acrosslimits.com Email
info_at_acrosslimits.com