An agreement has been signed between the University of Malta and the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE) at the University of Kaiserslauten in Germany to promote the development of marine engineering software.

The agreement lists the details of the partnership, which will last, initially, for one year. It was signed last month when a Maltese delegation visited Germany.

“I am sure this collaboration will go far beyond the improvement of the development of complex software systems for maritime navigation,” said Professor Dieter Rombach, executive director of the institute.