Student delegates take part in a School Model UN Conference
Model UN Conferences bring classroom learning into a real world context.
The School Model UN Conference Program is specially designed to cater for secondary school students (year 9 and above) and aims to enhance their understanding of complex global issues, the United Nations system, and the importance of dialogue and diplomacy in international affairs.
The program engages students in a unique, constructive and interactive educational process which focuses on global and multicultural citizenship, social responsibility and student voice. Students develop skills which are fundamental for active citizens and future leaders.
Conferences can be run across year levels and disciplines with a minimum of 50 and a maximum of 150 participants. The conference is a daylong event and the schedule can be adapted to meet the requirements of the host school.
Conference topics include:
- Achieving the Millennium Development Goals: Promoting Gender Equality and Empowering Women
- How to Reconcile Climate Change and Development
- Human Trafficking: ‘21st Century Slavery’?
- Information and Communication Technologies: Widening or Reducing the Gap between Developed and Developing Nations?
- Refugees: Rights and Risks
- Rewrite the Future: the Right of Every Child to Universal Primary Education
- The Future of Indigenous Peoples: Rights, Recognition and Respect
- The Heat is on: Climate Change and the Environment
- The Responsibility to Protect (TBC)
- There’s No Place like Home: How to Address the Situation of Environmentally Displaced Persons
- Violence against Women (TBC)
