From 10 to 13 June 2026, the Italian town of Città della Pieve hosted the final meeting of the Erasmus+ project “Equality Street - Gender Equality (Street View Approach) in Primary Education.” Launched in 2023, the project set out to promote gender equality in primary schools by training teachers and educators to embed equality into everyday educational and school settings. IDEA College Malta was proud to represent Malta among the project’s European partners.
It was, above all, a meeting that captured the spirit of the whole project: a fantastic synergy between partners that turned a shared ambition into real, usable outputs. For IDEA College Malta, taking part was a genuine privilege, and a reflection of the institution’s commitment to working at the heart of European education.
Equality Street brought together a rich consortium of organisations from across Europe. The project was coordinated by the Centre for Intercultural Studies at the University of Verona, with Prof. Marta Milani serving as scientific director. Alongside IDEA College Malta and the Maria Regina Primary School in Qawra, the partnership included the ValIda association, the University of Nicosia in Cyprus, the Greek organisations SynKoino Coop and Platon M.E.P.E., the Istituto Comprensivo in Bologna, the Ferdinand Buisson School in Belgium, and the French organisation Le LABA.
This mix of universities, primary schools, and civil-society organisations gave the project both academic depth and real classroom grounding, ensuring that the ideas developed were not only well researched, but genuinely practical for the teachers and pupils they were designed to serve.
“Universities, schools and civil-society organisations collaborated throughout the three-year project.”
Over the four days in Città della Pieve, the partners reviewed the results achieved across three years of collaboration, reflected on the project’s impact in very different national contexts, and set out the next steps for disseminating the materials developed to a wider audience of schools and educators across Europe.
Those conversations underlined what had made Equality Street so effective: a true partnership in which each organisation contributed its own expertise and cultural perspective, producing teaching approaches and resources that primary educators can use to nurture equality and respect from an early age.
For schools, Equality Street is a practical example of how thoughtful teacher training can help embed gender equality into primary education, not as a one-off lesson, but as part of the everyday culture of a classroom.
For prospective students and the agents who advise them, IDEA College Malta’s involvement speaks to something broader: an institution that is actively engaged in European, Erasmus+-funded projects, connected to leading universities and schools across the continent, and committed to contributing to the future of education. IDEA College Malta is thankful for the experience and looks forward to carrying the lessons of Equality Street into its ongoing work.
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