Enhancing Active Citizenship through DEBATE gives the possibility to bring together learners and teachers from Italy, Bulgaria, Turkey, Slovenia, Greece, Poland to empower them with active citizenship skills; to strengthen the ownership of European policy issues by focusing on the youth’s lived experience through DEBATE. The project is a way create innovative methodological solutions for un-formal education about European issues; to discuss topics of European significance in a safe, multicultural environment; to translate the principles of balanced, problem based, argumentatively supported dialogue into a DEBATE, to innovate school curricula of the participant countries (one totally new to Erasmus+ programme) who will benefit, through the exchange of good practices, the expertise of a Slovenian trainer.In the spirit of the project there is the willing to reflect about the importance of active citizenship and different possibilities for civic action, especially for the young people, and understand how skills and knowledge built by debating approach can lead to more active young people and can have direct impacts on broader society. In the course of the project they will not only learn how to argue their ideas more eloquently, critically and reasonably, but they will be put in a position where they are incentivized to understand the other side, and where they are forced to realize there are two sides of every story, and that both sides can be rational and convincing. The project priorities are: social inclusion, promoting the acquisition of skills and competences, strengthening the profile(s) of the teaching profession.The 6 short-term exchange activity of groups of pupils will be dedicated to a debate tournament with mixed teams thus promoting cooperation and providing for multicultural experience in a working environment.

INTERNET/SOCIAL MEDIA , MULTICULTURALISM/XENOFOBIA, GENDER, HATESPEECH/CYBERBULLYING, RESPONSABİLİTY TOWARDS THE CULTURAL HERİTAGE,EUROPEAN ISSUES are the topics selected to formulate the motions to be debated.

The conceptual framework of the project is centred on four citizenship education competence areas:

1: Interacting effectively and constructively with others, including personal development (selfconfidence, personal responsibility and empathy),communicating and listening;and cooperating with others.

2: Thinking critically, including reasoning and analysis, media literacy,knowledge and discovery,and correct and aware use of internet sources.

3: Acting in a socially responsible manner, including respect for the principle of justice and human rights; respect for other human beings, for other cultures and other religions; developing a sense of belonging; and understanding issues relating to the environment and sustainability,to the respect for the value of cultural heritage.

4: Acting democratically, including respect for democratic principles; knowledge and understanding of political processes, institutions and organisations; and knowledge and understanding of fundamental social and political concepts .

Finally it aims at developing and reinforce networks, increase their capacity to operate at transnational level, and share and confront ideas, practices and methods.