Middlesea Group has announced it will be sponsoring the 2^nd Annual Conference of E-Maps to be held on November 30 and December 1, 2005, in Malta.  

E-Maps is an Interdisciplinary European Masters in Creativity and Performance. It is a University of Malta based Socrates project, launched by Professor Richard Muscat from the Department of Physiology and Biochemistry and Dr John Schranz, Senior Lecturer in the Theatre Studies Programme and of which Mr J. F. X. Zahra is the Evaluator. The University of Malta in collaboration with the universities of Paris, Rome, Leicester and Poznan, is currently in an advanced stage of designing the Masters for availability in five European countries in 2007.

E-MAPS is a European Masters Programme in Performer Studies with a totally unique and dynamic nature. E-MAPS is not a Masters degree programme in history or theory of theatre or Sport. It is not a practical study-programme aiming to teach students the fundamentals of acting and performing, or of any particular discipline of sport.  E-MAPS is an invitation to would-be researchers to start considering the highly complex training processes which contemporary performers undertake (be they active in theatre, dance or sports) as a focus for research in the fields of Learning, Memory and Creativity. Academics in the five proponent universities – Malta, Roma La Sapienza, Paris XIII, Leicester De Montfort, and Poznan Adam Mickiewicz – are converging their separate, ongoing research into a unique programme that will offer tuition in the following five disciplines: Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Psychology, Philosophy, Sports Sciences and Performer Studies.

Middlesea Group’s sponsorship of the 2^nd annual conference on E-MAPS is in line with its commitment to support culture and education.

Middlesea Group is comprised of Middlesea Insurance p.l.c., Middlesea Valletta Life Assurance Company Ltd, International Insurance Management Services Ltd, Progress Assicurazioni S.p.A. and Growth Investments Ltd which are licensed by their respective authorities.

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