Students from Ireland, Austria and Scotland join at Mount Anville Secondary School on Tuesday, 29th April 2014 for the culmination of a two year project prepared solely via social media channels
The four schools include Mount Anville Secondary School, Dublin; St. Catherine’s College, Armagh; Sacre Coeur Wien, Vienna, Austria; and Kilgraston, Perthshire, Scotland.
The schools began a two year Comenius project in September 2012 with the objective of building stronger links with each other.
The teams have been working together on their debate topics exclusively through social media channels and will meet for the first time at the debate.
This year’s focus is on the theme of ‘Social Awareness’ and to tie in with this subject the debate topic was ‘Should Africa Go it Alone?’
The debate was chaired by former Minister, Liz O’Donnell and adjudicated by Mary Casey, solicitor at Mason, Hayes & Curran, Eamonn Meehan, CEO of Trocaire and Bryan Sheridan, former AIB Group Law Agent and auditor of solicitor’s debating society at UCD.
The key objective of the Comenius debate is to show students that despite living in separate countries, they can still work together and collaborate their efforts through social media channels.
