The main objective of NSTF Science is:
"to generate awareness and interest amongst students at all education levels of the nation in the importance of science and scientific research to one's daily life and to experience and promote science out of the classroom through hands-on projects, exhibitions, experimentation, research and discussion from both a scientific and ethical perspective".
NSTF Science Week
NSTF began its involvement in science in 1984 by selecting students who excelled in science at post-secondary level to participate in the London International Science Fortnight.
The National Student Travel Foundation has over the past years developed a Science Programme together with the Malta Chamber of Scientists and the Malta Council of Science and Technology to increase the interest of students in Science and Technology, and encourage them to read for degrees in science and take up careers within this sphere. The peak of all these programmes is the NSTF Science Week.
Students from secondary and technical schools participating in the Contest and School Contest for Young Scientists exhibit their scientific and technological projects with the opportunity to then go on to represent Malta at the EU Contest for Young Scientists, the Expo Science Europe and the Belgian Science Expo.