The 2010 IDEA Exchange, hosted by IDEA-Netherlands, will take place in Vilnius, Lithuania on March 27th-28th. Registration is open to young people (15-25 years old) from Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia and Ukraine. The Exchange also in
Eighteen high school students and three teachers from Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) attend the highly interactive Youth Leadership Program and accompanying Teacher Professional Development Program, in Salem, Oregon, and Washington, DC.
This event, which will take place in Budapest, Hungary on 10-11 April, will bring together youth activists working on the promotion of democratic values and combating populism in the public discourse particularly through the use of the new media from arou
IDEA is once again partnering with the Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press to lead an American Parliamentary Debate training May 15-17 at the FLTRP facilities. The training is part of the FLTRP Cup, to be held in Beijing May 15-22.
A participant of last summer's Climate Advocacy Institute, co-hosted by IDEA, is involved in organizing a Climate Leadership Camp, which will provide the knowledge and skills to become a climate activist at the grassroots level.
A short survey asks users what they like, dislike and think could be improved on Debatewise.org. Two respondents will each receive an iPod Touch as a small thank you.
Registration for the sixteenth annual IDEA Youth Forum has just begun! Here's your chance to be a part of IDEA's biggest event of the year! The 2010 YF will take place in Vlissengen and Middelburg, in the province of Zeeland, Netherlands on July 22-August 4, 2010.
You can now take the power of the renowned Debatabase offline! Download this easy to use package and have the power of the database of debate topics, arguments and evidence right on your desktop. Create booklets, print your cases and edit the existing information.
Please note that the Desktop Edition of the Debatabase is still in the beta testing phase. The process of development would benefit tremendously from your feedback - direct it to the developer, Marjan Stojnev.
Current podcasts include news and testimonials from participants in the 2006 IDEA Youth Forum in Predeal, Romania, as well as radio stories produced by students during the Citizen Journalism program focusing on everything from dating life in foreign countries to global warming and conflict.
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