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Teachers, youth workers, trainers, students, and other education professionals are invited to take part in an 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.

In Kampala, our member organisation Media Synergy for the Union of Forces, SYMUF-PRESS HOUSE collaborated with its local partner, Kampala Adult School (KAS) to hold a two-day activity where young people, teachers, journalists, and community actors ca...

The El Umiti Debate Cup 2025, held in Astana this past weekend, brought together some of Kazakhstan’s most active young debaters. The tournament, organised by Debat Eli, has become a central event for promoting debate and civic education across the c...

Following the Speak Together training held in Warsaw in June 2025, educators and community debate club leaders have established debate clubs in their schools and communities.

The EuroSDC Council has confirmed that Parma, Italy will host the European Schools Debating Championship 2027. The competition will take place in a year of special significance, as Parma has also been named the European Youth Capital 2027, offering a...

This year Warsaw hosted more than just the Debate Exchange 2025 with workshops and deep dives, but two more important meetings. The General Assembly and the Board Meeting, where all the important inner organisations decisions are made, and where are ...