Students from the Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology will be brought on board the Valletta 18 Foundation.

Foundation chairman Jason Micallef said the college was a “nursery of future artists” who were needed for their creativity and would have a lot to contribute to the foundation’s projects.

The foundation’s board of directors received President George Abela during an extraordinary general meeting at the Chamber of Commerce, Enterprise and Industry.

Mr Micallef praised him for his work, saying he had “unified the nation”.

This was also the role of the foundation, which will prepare Valletta for its title as European Capital of Culture in 2018.

“If we don’t bring the country together then we wouldn’t have reached our goal,” said Mr Micallef, a former Labour Party general secretary, whose appointment was deemed politically divisive.

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