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 debate training for high school students in Peja, Kosovo was held on January 27th by the FOL Movement (Speak Up Movement) and the Balkan Investigatory Reporting Network (BIRN). This was the first phase of a project supported by the Kosovo Open Society Foundation to re-institute the debate program in Kosovo.
On January 23rd in Minsk, Belarus, the "Speaker of the Year" tournament was held at the Minsk Palace of Children and Youth. The tournament included prepared and impromptu speeches, in which students competed in English.
IDEA has just launched its "DebateNews" blog on posterous.com that has both comprehensive and up-to-date information on what's happening in the world of debate.
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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