Hey everyone, I’m new here. I’m Rosa, 19 years old and from the Netherlands. I recently found out about the Accademia Vivarium Novum, which is an academy in Rome where you can study for one year to perfect your knowledge of Latin, and where you have to speak latin. Anyway, what I also found out, is that they don’t accept female students at the moment, as they are located in a building of a religious order. Pretty ridiculous. As I’d really like to go to the accademia, I’m wondering if anyone here knows more about this issue, and if there is any movement going on towards the acceptance of female students? And if this will be in the near future? As they only accept students 25 or under, I feel like there’s little hope for me to ever be able to study here… 
Thanks in advance for a reply 
It should be illegal. And maybe it is. Here’s a forum in which it’s reported that they’re planning to open up admission to females this year, so as to be in compliance with EU law: http://latindiscussion.com/forum/latin/accademia-vivarium-novum.24976/page-5.
If not, you should publicize such discrimination, and get a petition started. I’m sure you’d get lots of support.
Women are already admitted to the summer school, I understand. I’m not suggesting that’s enough!
Thanks for the link! I really hope they will. And thanks for the idea of the petition. I’m not sure whether I’d do this right now, but ptobably in the future. I know women are accepted to the summer school and it’d probably be really cool to go there but 1. I don;t have 5000 euros to spare 2 im not gonna fund an academy that doesn;t even let people of my gender actually study there, like that :')
somewhere further in that thread someone said they still didnt accept girls that year (september 2016)… it just doesn’t look like any progress is being made 
Which EU law?
sadly, because it’s funded by private people and not out of tax money, it’s probably legal. But maybe not. I don’t know which law that would be, I have zero knowledge of juridical stuff lol