I’m glad we gathered here tonight to celebrate at the official awarding ceremony and at the same time at the gala party summarizing the second mobility in Poland, in Kraków.

We are now in a very important place for Krakow,

....in the oldest hotel built by Czartoryski family of aristocrats who were also, for years, the owners of the Leonardo da Vinci painting you saw today in the Museum, The Lady with an Ermine. Moreover, this room was especially designed for beloved daughter, Marcelina Czartoryska, she was a student of Fryderic Chopin and she practiced right here – in this room.

I would like to welcome all guests, coordinators of the project, headmasters, teachers, my friends – my colleagues, I wouldn’t do without you and last but not least – students from the Erasmus family. students, you are the heroes of this mobility.Once again I would like to thank Ms Ida Mariolo, the head coordinator of the project, you are the author of this success, you made it all happened. It was your idea to start this project focusing on debates and debating. Those of you who know her, dear students, who had a chance to speak to her know how amazing person she is. How imaginative and full of incredible ideas.

Dear students, debaters, I remember when I talked to you after the debates on the second day of the tournament and I asked you how you were and majority of you answered: “we are exhausted, intellectually exhausted” and I beloved it was true. You worked very hard, prior coming here and you worked very hard here in Kraków and you did marvelous job. You grew better with each debate. Your communicative and language skills improved, your personal skills improved and the knowledge on the topic, a very important one, was widened. We are in Europe, we are one. For our Mother of Nature and our Globe, we are people, regardless of the place we live or our nationality. Wars, racism, intolerance aren’t natural, they don’t come from Nature. It is what we introduced, we the people. So if we could start wars and racism and intolerance It can also be us, who start working on bringing the peace back. We have a power to do that. You have the power to do that. We’ve spent so much time together, we’ve been hanging out for the last few days, are we different? We may have different opinions, that’s fine, we all want to be happy. We may have different definitions on happiness – let it be, that’s fine. Dear students, please remember about that, you are individual bricks that build societies, European and world society. Dear students, you are the heroes with a mission. A huge round of applause for you!