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 ====== JOVD Academy: Our Training Programs ======
-As a liberal youth organization in the Netherlands, JOVD invests heavily in the political and personal development of its members. Through our **JOVD Academy**, we offer a wide range of structured trainings—developed and led by experienced members—designed to strengthen political engagement, public speaking, leadership, and policy understanding.
+As a liberal youth organization in the Netherlands, JOVD invests heavily in the political and personal development of its members. Through our **JOVD Academy**, we offer a wide range of structured trainings—developed and led by experienced trainers —designed to strengthen political engagement, public speaking, leadership, and policy understanding.
-Most of our trainings are organized either locally or through **Regional Training Schools**, which bring together members from different chapters within a region. Below, we offer an overview of the key learning tracks within the JOVD Academy.
-This summary is intended to give our international sister organizations a sense of how we support and develop our members.
+Most of our trainings are organized either locally or through **Regional Training Schools**, which bring together members from different chapters within a region. Below, we offer an overview of the key learning tracks within the JOVD Academy. We have a separate academy for our volunteers as well. If you have any similar training, we are always interested to know how you conduct those, so that we can improve our own trainings as well.
 ===== Track 1: Presentation & Speaking Skills =====
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 ===== Track 2: Debate & Rhetoric =====
+Most people know debating from formal debating tournaments like Oxford or American Parliament. We believe debating is incredibly useful to quickly build rhetorical skills and learn how to listen to others. At formal tournaments, presentation is irrelevant, and participants try to address a jury. Our custom debating format is centred around convincing an ordinary audience to vote in favour or against a proposal in next week's hypothetical referendum. Our participants still speak for an extended amount of time (3-4 minutes), but presentation is much more important and we learn our participants to defend themselves against personal attacks.
 == Debate Basics ==
-A high-impact introduction to debating. Participants learn the structure and rules of formal debate, practice argument building, and work on handling stage fright. This training is open to all members, including those with no prior experience.
+A high-impact introduction to debating. Participants learn the structure and rules of debate, practice argument building, and work on handling stage fright. This training is open to all members, including those with no prior experience.
 == Personal Presence ==