Projects

Agree to Disagree: Strengthening Debate Skills introduces a pilot programme in Norway and the Netherlands to equip students aged 13–16 with debate-based skills in critical thinking and communication. Teachers and staff will be trained to apply the me...

IDEA at the European Youth Event 2025 (EYE) is a year-long cooperation with the European Youth Forum, focused on delivering youth-led debate activities in Strasbourg.

Through the "Speak together" project we are supporting integration of Ukrainian refugees and marginalized youths. Through debate, we aim to foster inclusion, critical thinking, and European values. Our activities include creating an inclusion toolkit...

The "KVAK" project targets to improve the quality of work with youth by focusing on safe and effective feedback, care for vulnerable groups and the development of an appropiate attitude towards participants. Implementation and testing will take place...

The Voice of Vocation (VoV) aims to enhance vocational education (VET) by equipping teachers with debate-based methods that support the development of soft skills and active citizenship in students. The project will be implemented in close collaborat...

The “Active Youth Hub” project is focusing on addressing the needs of youth workers and, especially, those who work with underprivileged youth, with limited access to the adequate resources and to professional development opportunities.

Dealing with Euroscepticism (DEUS) represents a pan-European effort to deepen young people's understanding a appreciation of common European values, and help them spot and dismantle misinformation about the EU, especially in the run-up to the 2024 Eu...

The green transition is an ambitious goal set by the European Union and the focus of many governments, political parties, think tanks, NGOs, and citizen initiatives. The issues it encompasses are complex, and the solutions are not as straightforward ...

Young people are taking on today’s most pressing issues - they are advocating for a greener, sustainable future, women’s, LGBTQ, and minority rights, an end to discrimination, and wealth inequality. Some question or even oppose those movements. Unfor...

Ukraine's debate community needs our help. Debate organizations across Ukraine have had to stop their meetings and tournaments, and focus purely on survival. Motions and arguments have been replaced by violence of inhuman proportions. We therefore ca...

When it comes to teaching and learning about present-day global issues, school curricula can be limiting. Due to the glacial pace at which changes to school curricula tend to be introduced, the politicization of school curricula in some countries lab...

Creative writing can encourage critical thinking, increase reading comprehension, inspire innovative thinking, increase problem-solving skills, and help with producing more reasoned analyses. However, due to the lack of attention to creative pursuits...