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On March 20 and 21, we attended the NEXT.GEN.FORUM which took place in Dresden. This event brought young people, civic initiatives and political stakeholders together to discuss democracy, civic participation and social change.

IDEA is starting work on its strategic plan for 2027 to 2032, and we want the people who make up our community to shape it from the beginning.

Last week in Brussels, IDEA joined more than 30 international youth organizations for the EYF Learning and Networking Days, co-organised by the Council of Europe’s European Youth Foundation and the European Youth Forum.

Teachers, youth workers, trainers, students, and other education professionals are invited to take part in a free online seminar focused on debate as an educational and youth work methodology.

For the third time, debaters from across the whole of Europe gathered to compete in the IDEA European Schools Debating Championship, the high school debate competition, which our members brought as an alternative to the World Championship. This time,...

Teachers, youth workers, trainers, students, and other education professionals are invited to take part in a free online seminar focused on debate as an educational and youth work methodology.

IDEA is built on the idea that debate education thrives through cooperation, solidarity, and shared responsibility. Today, we invite the IDEA community to turn these values into action.

The Youth4Change – My City. My Country. My Europe project officially kicked off with an online meeting on bringing together all partner organisations to launch the cooperation and set the foundation for the upcoming activities.

Members of the IDEA network gathered in Zagreb for "CollabLab," a three-day intensive focused on elevating the quality of our international work. Moving beyond traditional networking, this lab served as a strategic incubator for members to align thei...

Across Europe, many young people are living far from their home countries, navigating new languages, new schools, and new communities. We have developed a medium of Community debates as a form of integration

A youth workshop and public debate on climate change was held in Lilongwe, Malawi, bringing together university students and community stakeholders. Participants received debate training before engaging in a public discussion on environmental policy,...

Organisers are hard at work preparing the next edition of EuroSDC in Skopje, and registration is already ongoing for everyone who wants to join.