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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 ...

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 ...

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...

The end of summer was filled with a triathlon of Green Debate events held across Dutch schools, showing how debate can help young people discuss civic and environmental issues. Students at the University of Amsterdam had the opportunity to experience...

This year’s IDEA Debate Exchange returned to Warsaw to share experiences, strengthen cooperation, and explore new ideas across the European debate community. In a rich programme full of workshops and deep dive sessions, participants had the opportuni...