While PHOCOS and WRICOS are successfully implemented, these events make Silk-Road universities students experience about Silk-Road and grow up with outputs related to Silk-Road. In addition to these 2 events, Silk-Road Universities Network (SUN) has decided to hold the debate competition for SUN’s students as an annual event. This debate contest could be named as DECOS (Debate Contest of SUN). However, due to the prevalence of COVID-19, the contest has opened only for speeches and therefore the name of the contest also has been changed to Speech and Debate Contest of SUN (S-DECOS).

S-DECOS aims to develop and demonstrate SUN’s students’ speaking and presentation skills, as well as gain new competencies and improve their knowledge in aspects regarding multiculturalism, economic development, and undoubtedly, the Silk-Road which its origins and relevance in the international horizon.

Since the Debate Contest was supposed to be an offline event its procedure was progressed in this way. First, each member university should arrange pre-competitions to organize the team entering the international competition. Secondly, each selected team applies for the contest (Detailed information is available on the website). Then participating students will be gathered in the host University and then the Main Event will be progressed. At the end of the completions, the winning teams will be awarded the Gold Medal, Silver Medal, and Bronze Medal. On the other hand, the Speech Contest will be conducted as an online event. University students from the member universities or non-member universities are able to apply for this during the given period of time. The significant point of the speech contest is that the applicants will do their speeches in their native languages and send the recorded video with the English caption. They will be evaluated by an academic panel containing academic staff from member universities and the winners will be awarded as same as the debate contest. * (Subject to be changed)

History of S-DECOS

SDECOS 2021

S_DECOS 2021, The 3rd Speech and Debate Contest of SUN (Please note that the contest was opened only for speeches due to the outbreak of COVID-19).
 

Grand Prize
(Gold Medal) Mr. Nikita Panichive Ms. Latifa Sakhi

Allameh Tabataba'i University

Excellence Prize
(Silver Medal) Mr. Ali Reza Elyas Ms Li Peilin

Beijing Foreign Studies University

Special Prize
(Bronze Medal) Mr. Neele Henry Seifert
Hankuk University of Foreign Studies 

SDECOS 2020
S-DECOS 2020, The 2nd Speech and Debate Contest of SUN (Please note that the contest was opened only for speeches due to the outbreak of COVID-19).

Grand Prize
(Gold Medal) Mr. Nikita Panichive
Moscow State Linguistic University, Russia

Excellence Prize
(Silver Medal) Mr. Ali Reza Elyas
Heart University, Afghanistan

Special Prize
(Bronze Medal) Ms. Zoi Trintou
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Title	The 1st Speech Contest of SUN
Date	From December 2020 to July 2021
Theme	“Speaking Hopes” in the Era of COVID-19 (Applicants were highly encouraged to create their own topics related to this theme)
Hosted by	Silk-Road Universities Network (SUN)
Organized by	SUN Secretariat
Participants	8 Students from British University Dubai, UAE Heart University, Afghanistan University of Malaya, Malaysia Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece University of Guilan, Iran University of Isfahan, Iran Moscow State Linguistic University, Russia

SDECOS 2019

Jonghyuk Park
Juhyung Lee
Servin Kim
Yuliana Maria Reyes Trinidad
Hankuk university of foreign studies

The number of countries and cities	4 cities in 4 countries
The number of universities	4 universities
The number of participants	13