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IDEA focuses on fundraising, capacity building, and delivering training for debate coaches, teachers, judges and debaters. Explore our activities, projects and the latest stories.

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Youth Engagement Through Green Debate
NEWS Sep 01, 2025

Youth Engagement Through Green Debate

The last stop of our Green Debate tour across Dutch schools was Utrecht, where the local youth debate club UDS hosted a series of debates at Utrecht University. The sessions brought together young people to debate environmental topics and strengthen ...

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Bridging Schools and Universities in the Green Debate
NEWS Sep 01, 2025

Bridging Schools and Universities in the Green Debate

In the middle of debated ending summer in Netherland, the Green Debate initiative project made its way to Erasmus University in Rotterdam. Aimed to secondary schoolers from our partner DSDC organisation. The event showed again how debate connects stu...

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Events

IDEA Debate Exchange 2025
EVENT Aug 18, 2025

IDEA Debate Exchange 2025

The IDEA Debate Exchange returns this summer with a dynamic programme designed for debate professionals, youth workers, and volunteers across the IDEA network. Taking place in Warsaw from 18 to 23 August 2025, the event offers a full week of collabor...

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IDEA Youth Forum 2025
EVENT Jul 08, 2025

IDEA Youth Forum 2025

The IDEA Youth Forum 2025, an Erasmus+ Youth Exchange, will take place in Prague from July 8th to July 15th. At this IDEA flagship event, young people from across Europe come together to learn, collaborate, and engage in meaningful dialogue about the...

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Green Debate Tournaments
EVENT May 10, 2025

Green Debate Tournaments

We are excited to invite you to two Green Debate Online WS Tournaments, which will be held on Saturday 10th May and Saturday 31st May. These events are a great opportunity for teams of all skill levels. Whether you are a novice or part of a national ...

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Recent projects

Agree to Disagree: Strengthening Debate Skills
PROJECT Apr 01, 2025

Agree to Disagree: Strengthening Debate Skills

Agree to Disagree: Strengthening Debate Skills introduces a pilot programme in Norway and the Netherlands to equip students aged 13–16 with debate-based skills in critical thinking and communication. Teachers and staff will be trained to apply the me...

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Speak Together
PROJECT Feb 29, 2024

Speak Together

Through the "Speak together" project we are supporting integration of Ukrainian refugees and marginalized youths. Through debate, we aim to foster inclusion, critical thinking, and European values. Our activities include creating an inclusion toolkit...

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PODCAST Feb 21, 2022

How to improve the mental well-being of debaters

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