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Between 13 and 18 September, Brno hosted the Mental Health Exchange in Youth Work training as part of the PEACE project. The event brought together debate trainers, facilitators and judges from across our project partners, and introduced them to a ps...

From August 30 to September 4, youth workers from our partner organizations Hrvatsko Debatno Drustvo from Croatia and ARDOR from Romania gathered in Orahovica for an interactive summer activity focusing on using debate methodology in youth work. The ...

This year's IDEA Debate Exchange brought 50 participants from debate organisations across Europe, including for the first time a member from outside of Europe, together in Brno for a week of learning and exchange.

The 4th annual EuroSDC is taking place in Parma, Italy - from February 25th until the 28th 2027! DCA APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN! Thinking about joining the DCA team for the tournament in Parma, Italy? Read the information below.

The Youth4Change project invites youth workers, educators, trainers, teachers, and NGO staff to join a free, two-part online Training of Trainers (ToT) series. Designed to strengthen European youth engagement through non-formal and participatory lear...

From 17th to 23rd of August, participants from Netherlands, North Macedonia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Czechia, Romania, Italy, Croatia, Lithuania, and Serbia gathered in Blokzijl for From Participants to Leaders 2026 - a training programme designed to hel...

In the beginning of July, Prague hosted the IDEA Youth Forum for the fourth time. The event welcomed young people from across Europe for a week of P2P workshops, debate and cultural exchange.

IDEA is calling on debate organisations world wide to help us map debate education across the globe. We are launching a survey, through which we aim to understand who are the organisations using debate, how do they work, who do they reach, and what i...

In the last week of June, a group of educators assembled in Kranjska Gora for an intensive 7-day debate pedagogy training session, co-organised by IDEA and our Slovenian member organisation, Za in Proti.

On 1 July 2026, more than 45 youth workers, teachers, debate trainers and students joined our online webinar Quality Feedback in Youth Work. The webinar focused on introducing the KVAK platform. During the 90 minutes, our participants explored how to...

IDEA is a global non-governmental organization (NGO) (specifically a Stichting/Foundation) headquartered and registered in the Netherlands. IDEA works to empower young people to become active citizens who participate constructively and in an informed...

Youth workers, trainers, mentors, and education professionals are invited to a free online seminar presenting the KVAK learning platform and its practical tools for improving feedback in youth work.