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Youth Work in Debate Support youth opinions and raise your voice for young people by Filippo Massariol, Michael Magee
Youth Work in Debate, is a two year long-term international Strategic Partnership funded by
the Erasmus+ Programme. The idea is to help young people participate more actively in a social and political sense and improve their critical thinking skills through debate methodology. The project will involve 60 youth workers & youngsters aged 18-21 years, respectively, from June 2019 to May 2021.
The Partners of the project are Bluebook, a com-
munication agency from Italy and United Societies of Balkans and Youth Empowerment Association from North Macedonia.
The program is divided into 3 phases. Current-
ly, the project is in the second one. Phase one
consists of training activities to motivate and prepare the participants for the subsequent activities. The next phase involves three different workshops in each country, conducted by youth workers who have completed the first phase, and monitored by people from the projects team. In the 3rd and last phase, debate activities in
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