The debate team from Vocational High School of Tourism came home with a medal from Isernia

The debate teams of the partner schools from Italy, Germany, Bulgaria, Portugal and Turkey took part in a series of debates with a lot of emotions and with increased interest in the Italian city of Isernia. The meeting was on the project “DISCussing OUR Stance for Europe” of the European program “Erasmus +”. The topic on which the teams debated on was about women’s rights and each team prepared beforehand on 5 subtopics, determined by all partners. After eliminating the other teams, the group from Veliko Tarnovo consisting of Desislava Vasileva, Sonya Georgieva, Stefan Filev, Ivaylo Gaserov and Nikola Petrov, reached the final against the German debaters. In a disputed duel that caused applauses for both countries, the winner with just two points advantage became the German team. The project partners are preparing а “Debate Handbook” and a training film for successful debates.

The project meeting set the beginning of new international friendships and showed that the students are ready to live in a united Europe, where rivalry is only a ground for a new cooperation. All participants visited the former residence of the Neapolitan kings, the royal palace in Caserta and the city of Naples.

The debate team from Vocational High School of Tourism started its preparation for a re-match at the next project meeting in Germany in October.

“This project has been funded with the support of the European Commission.

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