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From 17th to 23rd of August, Blokizjl in Netherlands welcomed participants from many European countries for From Participants to Leaders 2026 event. An Erasmus+ youth exchange where young people learned from each other how to share and develop their ...

On 19 August 2026, we gathered young people from the Netherlands in Blokzijl, the Netherlands, for a panel discussion on mental health, safe spaces, and the role of youth communities in supporting young people’s well-being.

On 25th of July 2026, around 30 energetic young people gathered together in Amsterdam for an event exploring the relationship between digital media, well-being, and mental health.

At 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.

The Classroom Reboot project held its first in-person meeting in Belgrade. All partners used the two-day gathering to go through the project plan, discuss the content of all three outcome resources and find an agreement on what needs to be done as fo...

We are pleased to announce a special issue of Formazione e insegnamento, the European Journal of Research on Education and Teaching, dedicated to debate as a pedagogical practice and research field.

Last week, IDEA joined the forum on digital citizenship education at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, where we discussed the implementation of the Road Map for strengthening digital citizenship education 2027–31.