Festival in numbers

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The inaugural Topical Talk Festival was a huge success thanks to the fantastic efforts from participating teachers and students across the world.

Top topics

  • Festival2-Icon-Topic-ClimateChoices-Orange

    Earth Day

    2906 comments

  • Festival2-Icon-Topic-Strikes-Orange

    Strikes

    2,430 comments

  • Festival2-Icon-Topic-Metaverse-Orange

    Metaverse

    1,929 comments

Country contributors

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13 countries took part: France, Ghana, India, Ireland, Kenya, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palestine, Spain, Uganda, United Kingdom and United States

Top five country contributors

  1. Palestine
  2. Nigeria
  3. United Kingdom
  4. United States of America
  5. Uganda

Discussions

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    13,359 comments

    over the Festival

  • Festival2-Standpoints-Comments-Red

    284 comments

    on average, per day

  • Festival2-Icon-Standpoints

    558 Standpoints

Volunteers

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59

volunteers from KPMG and Clifford Chance helped to develop a discussion and 21 volunteers from The Economist helped to moderate discussions.

Festival2-Awards

Volunteer Award

The Volunteer Award for outstanding discussion support went to OIlie Hutchinson from KPMG