How do we empower the youth to participate in deli-berative democracy? One way to do it is the idea of giving students a voice in order for them to become a voice in society. That is what the Røst project is doing, developing Danish Folk High School students’ rhetori-cal skills and organizing an annual speech festival (Røst Festival) for them.
Røst can be described as having two main goals. Giving their students:
1. Rhetorical tools and
2. A feeling of rhetorical agency