"I think debating is a most valuable training whether for politics, the law, business or for service on community committees. A good debater must not only study material in support of his own case, but must also, of course, thoroughly analyze the expected arguments of his opponent. The give and take of debating, the testing of ideas, is essential to democracy. I wish we had a good deal more debating in our institutions than we do now." John F. Kennedy, 1960. Gijs Weenink was leading a debate for the European Commission in Brussels about European Exports Policy with 170 people from more than 30 countries. May 27th 2005. Gijs Weenink (37) is president and founder of the Dutch DebateAcademy. His company is specialized in organizing national and international debates for multinationals, NGO´s and ministries. Training national and international politicians and business people is also part of the core business. Gijs has been involved in international debating projects facilitating organizations to identify their strategy and helping them to clarify their positions. He worked for example for ASML, Ahold, Unilever, Greenpeace, Allen & Overy, KLM, Deloitte, Unicef, Oracle, Compaq, the Dutch Food Authority, the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, the Dutch Ministry of Economics and the European Commission. For Unilever he moderated a debate with 250 local managers from more than 30 European countries. For ASML Gijs has leaded two debates with audiences consisting of more than 2500 people from different countries. Through preparing and leading debates for more than ten years he has become familiar with a wide range of business issues like globalization, product access to the European market, trade and supply chain. Gijs is specialized in leading debates in a political context. He has also trained members of political parties in Eastern Europe for the Eduardo Frei Foundation, the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung and the Robert Schuman Institute in Budapest.  He followed many courses and training sessions in business, organization and communication skills in various European countries and in the United States. In Eastern Europe de DebateAcademy trained many politicians: 2001 Ukrain, Kiev;                Gijs Weenink and Rien Fraanje trained politicians in                                                   campaign and communication skills 2003 Estonia, Tallin;            Gijs Weenink en Klaas Jan de Vries trained                                                      campaigning skills for the upcoming EU-elections 2004 Ukrain, Lviv;                  Gijs Weenink en Jeroen de Graaf trained campaiging and                                                   communication skills 2005 Hungary, Budapest;    Gijs Weenink trained young politicians in campaigning skills 2005 Bulgaria, Sofia:            Gijs Weenink trained campainging teams in the western part                                                   of Bulgaria 2005 Georgia, Tiblisi;           Gijs Weenink trained young politicians in communication                                                    and campaiging skills 2005 Hungary, Budapest;    Gijs Weenink trained young politicians in debating skills 2005 Romania, Bucharest; Gijs Weenink en Jeroen de Graaf trained structure- and                                                    party communications 2006 Macedonia, Skopje;    Gijs Weenink has trained debating- and campaigningskills with                                                   70 young politicians 2006 Sarajevo, Bosnia;       Gijs Weenink trained politicians in debating skills. 2007 Zagreb, Croatia;          Gijs Weenink trained members of parliament in debating skills.					Telefoon: 020 - 44 70 146
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