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Only 2 days remain to participate in IDEA's Climate Change Action Plan Contest

Still fishing for inspiration?
Find out what algae has to do with climate change!

Some people think algae could be used to filter C02 emissions from coal plants
and produce biofuel for vehicles.

Others have proposed iron fertilization of algae blooms as a way to
reduce current levels of atmospheric CO2.

Is algae an ingenious solution to the climate crisis or a dead end?

What do you think?

Don’t miss your chance to speak up.
Join the Global Debates today!

Submit your Climate Change Action Plan by October 31st
and your team could win great prizes…from free debate training to iPod shuffles!

Click here for details about this exciting contest.

Final Week to Submit Climate Change Action Plans

Attention,
Global Debates competitors:

This is your last week to wow IDEA’s judges with your Climate Change Action Plan!

Why should the world accept your plan to significantly combat climate change?

Submit your plan by Friday, October 31st to compete for great prizes for your team.

Find more information on prizes here.

IDEA launces a new site focused on Balkan countries

IDebate.WB is a subsidiary of IDebate that focuses on the happenings around the countries of the Balkans. What makes IDebate.WB different is that submissions, news and articles are to be published in the native tongues of the speakers of these countries. Additionally, we will focus on the events within these countries.

This site is dedicated to educate about debates and promote the value of debate by publishing news and articles about debate events, projects and programs in the Balkan countries.

IDEA develops, organizes, educate and promotes debate and debate-related activities in communities throughout the world.

Our Purpose

• To educate the public in Balkan countires about debates and the value of debate
• To promote the values of debate in these countries
• To inspire critical discussion and analysis about ongoing society issuses
• To improve the quality of debate within these Balkan countries
  

Submit your Climate Change Action Plans NOW!!!

Join students all over the world who are writing their Climate Change Action Plans and holding debates in their schools.

Compete to win a trip to the 2009 UN Foundation Youth Leadership Summit in New York City!

What’s your plan?

Don’t forget: if you want to be considered for some great prizes from IDEA, October 31st is the last day to submit your Climate Change Action Plan.

Not sure what to focus on?

Have some ideas but lack the evidence you need?

Check out the great resources on Debatepedia’s Climate Change Portal.

Submit your plan by October 31st and your team could win great prizes…from free debate training to iPod shuffles!

Click here for details about this exciting contest.

For more information about the Global Debates visit The People Speak.

Open Society Institute’s Undergraduate Exchange Program 2009-2010

The Undergraduate Exchange Program (UEP) supports students from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Serbia, and Ukraine* in the United States for one year of non-degree academic studies. Applicants must currently be enrolled as a second-year student at a university in their home country to be eligible.

The program seeks to assist educational and civic development in Southeastern and Eastern Europe and Mongolia by exposing participants to a liberal-arts curriculum, different models of classroom instruction, community service work, and civil society–related programming. UEP combines the U.S. liberal arts academic experience with exposure to American social issues and civic development through involvement in community service–related work. The program aims to create lasting ties among participants and their American colleagues, thereby contributing to cultural understanding and tolerance.

Participants attend a university or college in the United States for one year. While in the United States, grantees agree to complete 25 hours per semester of community service work in an area of interest to them. At the end of the year, they are expected to return home to complete their degrees. Once back in their home country, grantees complete a community-based service project in their own community.

For more information and an application form, please see http://www.soros.org/initiatives/scholarship/focus_areas/undergraduate_exchange.

Applications are due Monday, December 1, 2008.

Please forward this announcement to those who would be interested in this program.

*Applicants from Ukraine must be studying in the regions of Dnipropetrovska, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Khersonska, Luhansk, Mykolaivska, Odeska, Poltava, Sumy, or Zaporizhzhya to be eligible.

USAID 2008 Development 2.0 Challenge

USAID is proud to announce the launch of the 2008 USAID Development 2.0 Challenge.
Brought to you by the Global Development Commons.

Mobile technology, including everything from inventive applications for smart phones to simple text messaging, is increasingly ubiquitous in the developing world. USAID challenges you to
explore its potential through an innovation for maximum development impact in areas such as health, banking, education, agricultural trade, or other pressing development issues.

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the U.S. Government agency that delivers economic and humanitarian assistance worldwide on behalf of the American people, is sponsoring a challenge to find the best in mobile innovations for good. Through a NetSquared community vote, fifteen finalists will be chosen. A panel of judges, selected by USAID, will then select the winners. The first place winner will receive a grant of $10,000, the two runner-ups will receive grants of $5,000 each. All three winners will have the opportunity to present their ideas to senior USAID officials, experts, and the public in WashingtonD.C.

Interested in finding out more? View complete Challenge details at 2008 USAID Development 2.0 Challenge. Be sure to read the Rules and Guidelines. For further questions, please email: usaidchallenge@techsoup.org.

3rd Presidential Debate Analyses

Read the full analyses at:

http://workserver.idebate.org/electiondebates/category/analyses/

IDEA encourages you to comment and to write your opinions on IDEA Election Debate site. IDEA welcome the debate.

Also, IDEA is willing to accept your analysis. Please send your analysis including a short bio at: kuzevski@gmail.com

IDEA Exchange 2008

Dear Members of IDEA,

The IDEA Exchange 2008 will take place in Amsterdam this year between the 4th and 6th of December.

The topic for this year exchange is Debate and Dialogue.

We would like to encourage participants to take active part in the Exchange by:

1. Making individual or team presentations (30-45 min. in length) : showcasing a methodology, project, publication, event, etc.

2. Participating in a panel discussion (participants are welcome to propose their own panels together with other presenters)

3. Showcasing a lesson, training sessions, educational exercise, etc.

4. Offering a workshop

For more information please follow this link:

http://www.idebate.org/exchange2008/

Confirm your attendance at Facebook Event Page: IDEA Exchange 2008.

Analyses for the 2nd presidential debate

Read the full analyses at:

http://workserver.idebate.org/electiondebates/category/analyses/

IDEA encourages you to comment and to write your opinions on IDEA Election Debate site. IDEA welcome the debate.

Also, IDEA is willing to accept your analysis. Please send your analysis including a short bio at: kuzevski@gmail.com

Presidential Debate needs your expert opinion

Open call to everyone:

Watch the next Presidential Debate, October 7th, 9 p.m ET.

Be a debate judge and write your opinion about who had stronger arguments and evidence and who ultimately won the debate.

Send your expert opinions to: kuzevski@gmail.com.

IDEA is waiting to read your analyses and to post them on:
http://idebate.org/electiondebates/.

Open call for judging election debates

Dear all,

IDEA is about to launch a new web site dedicated to the analyses of election debates. This website will present popular analyses and opinions of debate workers over said debates.

This is an open call to anyone interested in providing analyses or opinions on debates between the presidential and VP candidates.






IDEA needs your expertise to improve the quality of election debates by critically assessing the quality of debates as well as the performance of individual candidates.

All you need to do is to be a debate judge. Watch the debates and write your opinion about who had stronger arguments and evidence and who ultimately won the debate.

Send your expert opinions to: kuzevski@gmail.com. IDEA is waiting to hear your opinions and read your analyses.

All the best!

Mite Kuzevski.

Submit your Cilmate Change Action Plan and win

It’s October 1st: The People Speak Global Debates start TODAY!

IDEA will award 2 GRAND PRIZES, with one prize reserved for a non-U.S. school. Submit your Climate Change Action Plan online by October 31st, you’ll be automatically entered into a competition for the best plans.

CLICK HERE for more information.