The International Debate Academy Slovenia (or IDAS) is a truly outstanding event. From November 19 to 27, IDAS brings together international participants and leading debating experts from all over the world. Bojana Skrt's org com is pleased to present the ESL EUDC champions (among others) 2010 Maja Cimerman and Filip Dobranic as well as the ESL WUDC champion 2008 Anne Valkering and Manos Moschopoulos (ESL EUDC finalist 2010, best ESL speaker WUDC 2010) as trainers. Until November 24, IDAS offers a wide range of workshops all around debating complemented by intense practice debates. This part of IDAS takes place in the ...

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Being a great success, the International Debate Academy Slovenia (IDAS) 2010 showcased what most European debaters will know already: that debating in the Balkans is a force to be reckoned with. Most Slovenes do not consider themselves part of the Balkan, so I hope that they forgive me their temporary inclusion for the sake of alliteration and simplicity. The International Debate Academy Slovenia offered a boot camp with five days of debate trainings in Kransjka Gora (a ski resort in the Alps), and three tournament days in Ljubljana. IDAS, like Worlds, is one of the few debating events that truly bring ...

The winners of this year's International Debate Academy Slovenia (IDAS) Tournament in Ljubljana have been announced: First came John Sadek and Jessica Bullock from Vermont, second were Filip Dobranic and Maja Cimerman from Slovenia (currently European champions in ESL). The other two teams who debated in the finals were Anna England-Kerr and Crt Podlogar from Lubljana as well as Goran Jankuloski and Pedrag Pevicevic from Belgrade. Anne Valkering chaired the final debate, alongside with her were judging John Hampson (British Council), Loke Wing Fatt (Singapore), TJ Senamngern (Thailand) and Maja Nenadovic (Netherlands). The motions: Round 1: This house would require migrants wishing to ...

Von 20. bis 28. November wird bereits zum achten Mal die International Debate Academy Slovenia (IDAS) in Ormož stattfinden, ...