Local council executive secretaries will be visiting the UK for exchanges in order to foster greater cooperation between the two countries, Local Government Minister Austin Gatt said.
The secretaries will be visiting the councils of Cornwall, a county roughly comparable in population to Malta and with similar interests in tourism and the maritime sector, and Torfaen and Neath Port Talbot in Wales.
They will hear how the councils deal with projects under Objective 1 of the EU's structural funds.
The first group of executive secretaries would be in the UK, for visits lasting one or two weeks, in the first three months of next year.