At the University of Malta Junior College’s Annual International Multidisciplinary Conference (AIMC) 2025, Carmel Serracino and Andrew Debono Cauchi showed how project CITADEL transforms the Homeric world of the Iliad into a multilingual educational game.

Project CITADEL featured in the AIMC at Ġ.F. Abela Junior College, themed Evolving Paradigms in Further Education (16+). Held between 10-12 September 2025, the AIMC invited educators to explore new methods that cross disciplines and expand the potential of post-secondary learning.

In their paper, Serracino and Debono Cauchi presented CITADEL, a Creative Europe project designed to revive young people’s interest in Classics through the creation, promotion and distribution of a mobile game. The paper focused especially on the teaching campaign in middle and secondary schools, the core component of the project. The teaching campaign served to introduce students to Greek mythology and the Homeric epics as well as to invite them to contribute their own ideas to the development of the game. Findings from the teaching campaign were presented, informing innovative classroom models for the role of Classics in education.

Project CITADEL aligns brilliantly within this year’s theme for AIMC, which is to test evolving paradigms in further education. The game is developed as cognitively engaging, gender-inclusive, eco-conscious, and anti-war, and it will be available in multiple languages (English, Dutch, Maltese, Polish, Ukrainian) to widen access and cultural significance in the post-secondary classroom. Building on an international teaching campaign in Malta, Poland, and the Netherlands, data will be collected and analysed to transform students’ ideas into digital assets and a user interface for the game.

By aligning co-creation, multilingual design, and ethical values with curricular needs, CITADEL exemplifies how digital leisure-learning can complement further education while strengthening pathways from secondary to higher education. Conference participants were invited to follow CITADEL’s progress as the project moves from teaching-campaign insights into full mobile app development and dissemination in 2026!

We thank the several AIMC committees and organisers for their sterling work and for giving us the opportunity to present our project!