NextGen Debate Forward

<< Objectives >>Our project aims to integrate youth debates into secondary education in Lithuania, Spain, and Greece to foster civic awareness, engagement, and critical thinking and to empower educators to systematically apply debates in citizenship education for engaging late teenagers in meaningful civic discourse. The programme will inform 1200 schools and 4600 educators, onboard 750 teachers to the youth debate programme, with an outreach to 200,000 high school youth.<< Implementation >>We will develop a structured innovative youth debate programme, including a methodological and instruction manual and a digital thematic guidebook with comprehensive interactive content and multimedia resources. We will pilot the debate programme in schools, conduct teacher onboarding webinars, and organize semi- and grand-finals of youth debates as live demonstration of their impact on civic education. We will conduct tailored dissemination campaigns to engage wider stakeholder groups.<< Results >>The project will deliver a structured youth debate programme, empowering educators and engaging students to systematically apply debates in education. It will directly equip 750 educators, inform 4,500 educators in 1200 schools, engaging 1,500 stakeholders from wider educational communities. The project will promote the adoption of debates as an impactful instructional method in citizenship education in Lithuania, Spain and Greece.