On 20.12.2022, the first online working meeting of the Erasmus+ DEBATE project, funded by the Spanish Service for the Internationalization of Education (SEPIE), took place. The project coordinator is ESIC University, Spain and the partners are ESE, Ensino Superior Empresarial, LDA., Portugal, Asociacion de innovacion emprendimiento y tecnologias de la informacion y la comunicacion (INNETICA), Spain, Kultur Egitim ve Proje Dernegi, Turkey, University of Peloponnese, Greece and "Dunarea de Jos" University of Galati.

The Erasmus+ DEBATE project, worth 250,000 EURO, with an implementation period of 24 months, aims at promoting the use of debate as a working methodology in the context of higher education and to stimulate innovative learning and teaching practices.
 
The DEBATE project will provide the opportunity for teachers to be trained in this method and will create a collaborative e-learning platform, through which young people, students, and adults from different cultural backgrounds can conduct online debates and acquire skills that can be used for personal interests or careers.