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IDEA SEE debate training for Roma youth

On 26th October in the municipality hall in Berovo, Macedonia, in partnership with the local 'Roma Information Center', IDEA SEE held an introductory debate training for young Roma students. Over 20 Roma youth participated in the workshop and received knowledge about:

What is debate?
Debate formats and topics
Argumentation
Public debate

Africa Works Conference: plant your IDEA

Did you plant your IDEA in the Debate Tree Gallery at African Studie Centre and NABC’s Africa Works conference the 16th or 17th of October? Check here your and the other participant's Statement Selfies (Stelfies). Why were they pro or con the statement Africa Works? The fruit of your thoughts will be used as starting point for IDEA’s 'grow in debate workshop' at Africa Day (Afrikadag) the 1st of November. IDEA’s young African participants from the
African Inclusion project made a live stream report, which can be viewed at the Africa Works website.

Don’t forget to share your Debate Tree IDEA: @idebateNL @AfricaWorks2014 #Debatetree

IDEA Debate Tree gallery: Afrikadag

IDEA Netherlands (NL) launched its Debate Tree at the Africa Works conference on the 16th and 17th of October. It offers a new method to let debate and conference visitors’ thoughts grow. About 100 visitors of the Africa Works conferences watered the tree with their ideas.

IDEA SEE Training of Trainers in Belgrade

From 15-19 November 2014 in Belgrade, Serbia IDEA SEE organized Mapping and Training of Debate, Rhetoric and Public Speaking Trainers.

Debate in the neighborhood project in Macedonia

Twenty seven debaters from four cities in Macedonia demonstrated their argumentation skills at a public debate event, held on Saturday, January 31st at hotel Ilinden in Strumica. This was a part of a three day event organized between Thursday, January 29th and Sunday, February 1st, as the final activity within the Debate in the Neighbourhood project of IDEA Southeast Europe. The 'Debate in the Neighbourhood” project started in January 2014, featuring more than 100 young Roma highschool and university students, between the ages of 15 and 25.

Debate in the Neighborhood Exchange

Debate in the Neighborhood Exchange Europe! held in Amsterdam from 11-14 March 2015, organized by IDEA NL.

Balkan Youth Newsroom – BYN is a regional project that will be implemented in Stip, Macedonia, Nis, Serbia and in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina in the period between January and December 2015.

The BYN project includes 60 young people from these three Balkan countries. There will be 20 participants from each of the three countries, divided in at least four groups, depending on the newsrooms’ availability in Stip, Nis and Sarajevo. All participants will be working in local media newsrooms - partners of the project. Each group will work in the newsroom at least two days a week during at least one whole month.

Balkan Youth Newsroom – BYN is a regional project that will be implemented in Stip, Macedonia, Nis, Serbia and in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina in the period between January and December 2015.

The BYN project includes 60 young people from these three Balkan countries. There will be 20 participants from each of the three countries, divided in at least four groups, depending on the newsrooms’ availability in Stip, Nis and Sarajevo. All participants will be working in local media newsrooms - partners of the project. Each group will work in the newsroom at least two days a week during at least one whole month.

BYN Nis

Balkan Youth Newsroom – BYN is a regional project that will be implemented in Stip, Macedonia, Nis, Serbia and in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina in the period between January and December 2015.

The BYN project includes 60 young people from these three Balkan countries. There will be 20 participants from each of the three countries, divided in at least four groups, depending on the newsrooms’ availability in Stip, Nis and Sarajevo. All participants will be working in local media newsrooms - partners of the project. Each group will work in the newsroom at least two days a week during at least one whole month.

Art & Design for Advocacy 2015

Over 50 youth from Albania, Greece, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Kosovo, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia came together to learn how art can influence advocacy to solve their burning societal issues. From comic strips, and data visualization to graffiti and stencils, they learnt how to use different art techniques during the Art and Design for Advocacy training which took place in Ohrid, Macedonia from 22-28 June 2015.

Art & Desing for Advocacy Lab in London

Organized by IDEA United Kingdom, the workshop is a part of the larger Art & Design for Advocacy program, pioneered in the Balkans by IDEA Southeast Europe, who provided lectures in street art (Goran Kostovski), history and evolution of comics (Boshko Karadzov, PhD) and messaging and advocacy (Marjan Stojnev).

The 5th IDEA International Aitmatov Debate Academy took place on the shores of Issyk-Kul Lake, Kyrgyzstan, from 21 to 27 March, 2016. About a hundred participants selected from 7 countries of CIS and the Baltics: Estonia Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan participated in the event this year.

Forgotten Holocaust, panel discussion in Skopje on Roma and the Holocaust from the Second World War by idebate

This house believes that drinking water should be a human right by idebate

GDPPC Open 2013 by idebate

This house believes that Stark Industries should have Open-Sourced the Iron Man suit by idebate

Радио дебата: Младите во Македонија (не) дебатираат јавно by idebate

Радио дебата: Младинските организации ја исполнуваат својата цел by idebate

Јавна дебата: Младите и можностите за вработување во Македонија by idebate

Радио дебати на УГД ФМ by idebate