2. Aim:
• To promote debating and draw students´ attention to present day social
issues
• To encourage young people to lead a dialogue, listen to each other and
be tolerant while communicating
• To improve public speaking, critical thinking, communication and
presentation skills
3. Meetings:
1. "Debates in the European Parliament of the
future“
2. "Debates on women’s rights and gender
equality“
3. " Debates on Education – a right and a duty“
4. " Debates on refugees"
4. A hand book on “how to create a debating club and debate at school” will
be made to help those who want to debate. During meetings we will
discuss with local MEPs about their work in local parliaments. We will also
cooperate with NGOs, local students’ parliaments, formal and informal
institutions and schools in the region to obtain the best results. Teachers
will also be trained to be mentors, trainers and mediators for conflict
solving.
During activities, students will use subjects of ICT, English Language,
History, Philosophy, Business Education, Geography, Ecology and
Psychology. One of the activities will be writing essays on “Citizen of
United Europe and a future MEP”.
5. A voluntary project has also been set up called “Good Deeds of Young
Debaters”, which involves supporting disadvantaged families, collecting
food packages and necessities, helping out in dog shelters, and visiting
the homes of the elderly.
6. OBJECTIVES
Training confidence in students because debates are an intellectual conversation where both parties present
their theses when solving a problem and also defend them. Students will become more inquisitive and active
young people with their own opinion. They will have an overview of the goals they want to achieve and an idea
how this could be done.
- Understanding and tolerance towards the opinion of others.
- Developing a skill for successful.
- Teaching an active citizenship.
- Having a good command of English language.
- Students and teachers acquiring knowledge about the diversity of European cultures, languages and values.
Increasing the knowledge for European counties and encouraging intercultural dialogue and intercultural
familiarizing for forming a positive attitude towards United Europe and European Union values.
- Comprehending the relation “person-society”.
- And at last, to favor the use of new technologies like Facebook or E-Twinning, with which teenagers are quite
familiar with, and also e-mail, video-conference, the Moodle platform, etc.
7. TASKS
TURKEY
M2 Organizing the meeting in June 2019
A8 Basic rules, methods and means in debating
A12 A meeting with a lawyer and a local authority representative
A36 Publishing a handbook with essays
ITALY
C1 Organizing the first training for teachers in February 2018
A10 Setting up the commissions of the European Parliament
A11 Mediators trainings
A13 Creating and updating a website
BULGARIA
C2 -Organizing the first training for students and teachers in
June 2018
A15 An appointment with NGOs for women’s rights
A16 Debates on women’s rights and gender equality
A17 Sessions of the European Commissions (Women’s Rights
Committee and Gender Equality)
A18 Preparing the electronic communication platform
SPAIN
C4 Organizing the third training for students and teachers in
March 2019
A23 An appointment with MEP
A24 Debates on refugees
A25 A session of European Committees (the Committee on
Civil Liberties, Justice and Interior Affairs)
A26 I-A Citizen of United Europe and a Future MEP - closing
conference
A38 Making a DVD film with the debates from the meeting
8. Countries involved:
1. Romania - project leader- Satu Mare
2. Spain- Granada
3. Bulgary - Archar
4. Turkey- Afyonkarahisar
