Matyas Supka
Co-founder · Mentorship & Programme
Works one-on-one with every Navi student, every week, for all eight.
Czech national debate champion. He founded two debate clubs and has personally coached over 100 young people, aged from 7 to 20. Worked with schools, the Czech national team, and an international coaching organisation — which is to say, the mentoring behind Navi isn't a theory. It's the thing he's been doing for years.
He was one of three lead organisers of a national media-literacy olympiad that 30,000 students participated in last year — responsible mainly for the regional rounds, coordinating schools and teachers. He knows what it takes to run something at scale, because he's done it.
Elected three times as president of European Youth Denmark's Grenaa section, he grew it from 27 to 170 paying members — the largest local section in the country — while leading a board of 32 and managing over €25,000 in public grants directly, at seventeen. He also became the youngest member of the organisation's national board.
He was mentored himself, in debate, and it was the experience that opened up a world outside school — one of opportunity rather than obligation. He does for younger people now what was once done for him. He has watched it work dozens of times.
Heading to Amsterdam University College — the University of Amsterdam's honours college — to study psychology and behavioural science.