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IDEA is an international network with over ten years of experience in teaching debate to young people.

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Debate@Europe is an educational project for young people in six countries across Europe. It fosters dialogue and mutual understanding through online and offline debates on European issues.

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  • YO! Fest 2013

    Brussels: League of Young Voters launch
    15 May 2013
    IDEA Network News
    IDEA is partnering with the European Youth Forum to launch the League of Young Voters on 30-31 May 2013, 10.30am to midnight, in front of the European Parliament,...
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  • Debate caravan ends in Porto
    15 May 2013
    IDEA Network News
    Portuguese university students have spent the months of April and May participating in a series of debate events on European topics as part of the IDEA Debate changing...
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  • Portuguese debate caravan moves on
    1 May 2013
    IDEA Network News
    Portuguese university students have spent the month of April participating in a series of debate events on European topics as part of the IDEA Debate changing Europe...
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  • Mixed Amsterdam Rotterdam team wins Dutch National Championships
    25 Apr 2013
    World Debating News
    Luciën de Bruin of the Erasmus Debating Society (EDS) and Daniel Schut of the Amsterdam Student Debating Society Bonaparte have won the Dutch National Championships 2013...
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Two new digitial publications for beginning debate clubs
18 Apr 2013
IDEA Press has launched two new digital publications to support new debate clubs: How to Start a Debate Society: A Brief Guide and How to Organize an...
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Portuguese European Debate Series
17 Apr 2013
Portuguese university students can spend the months of April and May in a series of debate events on European topics as part of the IDEA Debate changing Europe...
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Mind the trainers!
15 Apr 2013
New trainers preparedAmsterdam, Friday evening April 12, in the Combiwel youth centre, youth and their mentors are waiting for a debate training. Not a normal...
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IDEA SEE celebrates International Roma Day with public debate on education
10 Apr 2013
Public debate on the topic “Non-formal education is more valued on the labor market than formal education”, screening of the documentary films “The laboratory...
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Vienna IV Videos
3 Apr 2013
How should the Catholic Church choose its next pope? Should an emigrant decide to go to the European Union, or the United States of America? That, and more...
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Mixed Amsterdam team wins Leiden Open
28 Mar 2013
Caspar Jacobs, from the Barlaeus Gymnasium secondary school, and Micha Beekman, from the Amsterdam Student Debating Society Bonaparte, have won the final of...
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