Greece
- Youth and education
Our mission is the enforcement of democracy and of a system of values through the exercise and empowerment of critical thinking, endorsement of dialogue, the development of the ability to express yourself fluently and correctly, the socialization of students and the growth of fair play within a safe environment for each one of them. We are educated and then educate others in the rules and principles of debate and the technique of speaking in public with no fear.
With the start of the winter semester and for the whole academic year we hold 3-hour meetings each Friday in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki which are split in educating the theoretical part of the debate and then practicing it. Every year in April we also organize the Panhellenic Debate Tournament with debaters from all the debate clubs of Greece. Throughout the year we additionally organize debate education seminars and public speaking events. We represent the university in every major debate tournament on a national and international level. Our Society has also taken part in the first tv show in Greece based on debate with its content being the organization of live debate tournament among participants of all the debate clubs in Greece.
Our contribution could be multilevel and we have already proven that by being the co-hosts of an exhibition debate according to the model of Young Mediterranean Voices debate last October as part of the meeting of national networks of the Anna Lindh Foundation. Moreover, we have succeeded in the Erasmus+ Virtual Exchange Debate Leader Training which shows are dedication on that. We can expand the knowledge of debate and of public speaking by co organizing major events with students from North Mediterranean region with the support of Anna Lindh Network.
A Debate Society in order to run correctly shall seek for major organizations and networks that share same aims with it. This collaboration will not only help us grow as a community, expand our fame as we will co-hosting events with a widely known and accepted organization but most importantly, we will secure the existence of contributors to our very first aims since our creation which are democracy and critical thinking via debate.