Jugend debattiert international

It is held in ten countries of Central and Eastern Europe: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia (Moscow and St. Petersburg), Slovakia, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Ukraine and Hungary.

[1] The competition helps young people in Central and Eastern Europe to advocate their opinions, represents and promotes the German language as a medium of debate.

The debates revolve around topics such as school life, fundamental rights, history (especially historical experiences of injustice), and Europe.

Jugend debattiert international targets students from 10th grade onwards who master German at least to the level of B2 of the Common European Framework of Reference.

Since the fourth international finale 2010 in Berlin, the winners of the German competition Jugend debattiert support them as advisors.

In 2007, students from all seven countries and Germany met for the first international finale in Prague under the auspices of the former president of Czech Republic, Václav Havel.

Winners of the first international finale were Jakub Štefela from Liberec, Czech Republic and Peer Klüßendorf from Rostock, Germany.

The Second international finale took place in October 2008 in Warsaw under the auspices of the Sejm Marshal of the Republic of Poland, Mr. Bronislaw Komorowski.

Jitka Rutrlová from Prague, Czech Republic and Maximilian Behrens from Münster, Germany, were the winners of the final debate.