[hr-education] IDEA Debate Training (Amsterdam, 14-15 September 2006)

European Youth Speak 
September, 14 2006 - September 15, 2006 

*ANNOUNCEMENT* 

We are looking for participants for: 

Training in debating skills and public debate development 
September 14-15, 2006 
IDEA NL, Amsterdam 

Are you interested in learning about argumentation and debating
techniques; learning how to become a debate trainer; learning about how to
use debating techniques in public debating and how to organize debate
events? This is your chance!

We are looking for motivated youth workers, neighborhood and community
workers & leaders, NGO workers, students, development officers & project
leaders, formal and informal leaders or people interested in youth work,
who would like to participate in our project training. The training will
be interesting for people with little knowledge of debate as well as
people with debate experience that would like to know more about its
practical applications and develop their trainer skills.

The training is a two day training course (in English) about argumentation
and public debate:

* What is debating, what is argumentation? 
* Different formats of debate 
* How to motivate young people from different backgrounds for debating and 
discussions and set up your own trainings? 
* How to use debate techniques in public debating and to organize debate 
events about European issues throughout communities? 

Besides this training we give all the participants the opportunity to
practise trainer skills by joining other parts of the EU Youth Speak
Project, for example by becoming a debate trainer or involvement in public
debate development. Information about this will be given during the
training.

The training is part of the EU Youth Speak project that is implemented by
IDEA Netherlands (International Debate Education Association) together
with debate organisations in 4 countries (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Latvia
and Estonia) and Human Rights Education Associates (HREA, Netherlands),
with the aim to develop debate clubs and public debate about the EU. At
the end of the one year project there will be a conference in the
Netherlands for all the participants of the project. The EU Youth Speak
project started June 15th 2006.

The project objectives of the EU Youth Speak project are: 
* Increasing young people's participation in discussion of important 
issues affecting their lives at local, national and European level, 
* Developing advocacy skills of young people, teachers, NGO workers and 
community leaders 
* Promoting knowledge of the European issues throughout communities 

We aim to reach those objectives by doing different activities: 
- Giving a two day training, Sept 14-15, to youth workers about debating 
skills and public debate development and train the trainers (in English); 
- Giving trainings to youth workers, in September and October, each 2 full 
days, to develop skills in debating, specifically focussed on how to 
organize debate clubs and development of public debates on European issues 
throughout communities (in Dutch); 
- Guiding organisations in starting their own debating / discussion clubs; 
- Supporting public debates; 
- Organizing a conference with the other 4 countries on 16 and 17th of 
March 2007. 

How to enroll the training course: 
If you are interested to enroll this training course, please send an email 
to Sanne de Kieviet before September 7, 2006. 

There is no participation fee for this training "debating skills and
public debate development".

Please make sure you provide us with your name, the name of your
organization, a short description about yourself and a short motivation to
join the training and the willingness to help in other parts of our
project.

Sanne de Kieviet 
Management Assistant IDEA NL 

Boudewijn Bekkers 
Development Director IDEA NL 




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