Debate academy 03 was a great sucess, so we decidet, to make it an annual thing, and make it bigger in year 2004, of course with the cooperation with the World debate Institute, Vermont

Making it bigger also meant making it in a bigger hotel, and we found a great place in a small town called Ormoz. In Hotel Ormoz we hosted 75 participants from 13 countries, Lithuania, Latvia, USA, Slovenia, Slovakia, Russia, Croatia, Macedonia, UK, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Sweden.

Because of the bigger number of participants we invited more trainers, so we were glad to host and listen to>

- Alfred C. Snider aka Tuna, World debate Institute

- Joseph O Zompetti, Illinois State University

- Steve Lanos

- Branka Josimov

- Harold Rait

Debate academy is not all about the debate, that`s why we prepared some other interesting activities, one of them a round table discoussion, a Public forum about the relationship between USA and Europe and we were glad to host the ambassador of United States of America in Slovenia mr. Thomas Bolling Robertson and the ambasador of the delegations of European Union in Slovenia mr. Erwan Fouréré.
It was also newer boring in the evenings. The participants could go for a wine tasting in the Ormoz Wine cellar, to taste the great local wines, newertheless Ormoy lies in one of the best wine regions in Slovenia, a Kitch party is also an annual ewent on the Debate academy (thats why all the weird dressed people on the photos), an International everning (presenting each country with local food and drinks), and all the other evenings were free, to party as you wish. And there was no-one bored

The Osrednja theme of all the workshop`s on the Debate academz were the relations between United States and the European Union on different levels (economy, security, politics, culture etc.) in an structured and educational way.

A picture says a 100 words, so here.