The Local Phase of the Lliga de Debat consist of two parts. The students enrolled will have to take the course Parlar en públic (Valencian for Public Speaking), given by Gonçal López-Pampló Rius, lecturer in the Department of Catalan Studies (UV); Nuria Martin, theatre director, actress and teacher, and Ruben Arnandis i Agramunt, lecturer in the Department of Geography (UV). Once the training is finished, teams will be organised and the internal Universitat de València League will be played, with prizes for the winning team and for the best speaker. 

From the participants in the local phase, the Universitat de València will choose the team that will represent it in the Lliga de Debat Universitària 2023, which will take place from 27th to 29th March at the Universitat de València. In this dialectic competition, different teams of students form the Xarxa Vives member universities will have to defend their positions for and against the current topic chosen for this year’s edition: “Is tourism sustainable?”.

The aim of the competition, which has been organised since 2005, is to encourage the use of the spoken word to promote skills such as argumentation, public speaking, information, research, collaborative work, staging and relations with students from other universities that are part of the Xarxa Vives d’Universitats. The Lliga de Debat is organised by the Xarxa Vives d’Universitat and the local phase of the UV is coordinated by the SeDi Information and Promotion Service. 

• More information and registration for the Lliga de Debat Universitària 2023  
• Registration period: from 13th September to 2nd October.