In our recent workshop session last Tuesday, our delegation was honoured to have Dr. Elmar Mustafayev as our guest. Dr. Mustafayev is the head of the Political Science and Philosophy Department at Khazar University in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. Dr. Mustafayev was in Tübingen because him and Prof. Dr. Thomas Diez of the Tübingen … More Expert Knowledge for our Delegation
In the last couple of weeks, our delegation has been extremely busy preparing for the conference in New York. Each committee first needed to hand in a landmark document on their topics, collecting all resolutions and treaties that could be relevant for negotiations. As soon as this task was submitted, we began our work on … More A Holiday Update
Preparations for New York are in full swing: the committees have been announced and the delegates have begun researching their respective topics. This weekend, our delegation was also given the opportunity to participate in the Tübingen Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Model United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and discuss the global … More Tübingen Conference of the Parties
Our first simulation last weekend is over and left us all impressed but also very exhausted. As many of us have never participated in such a simulation before, we did not really know what to expect. First day: Starting on Saturday morning, we directly went into formal session, where each and everyone of us represented … More It’s getting serious…
We are excited to announce that the Tübingen delegation to the National Model United Nations in New York will represent the Republic of Azerbaijan next March. Sixteen new delegates from various fields of interests and expertise are highly motivated to spend this semester preparing for the challenge. The first simulation this upcoming weekend will be … More Here We Go Again
Going to NMUN New York means: getting to know many people and working long hours. As we all worked in different committees, our individual experiences vary a lot. We have had a lot of practice before our conference, so writing on working papers, delivering speeches and bringing in motions for some of us almost felt … More The big finale – NMUN New York
From the 12th to 15th February a part of our delegation went to Geneva to learn more about the UN organisations. We had a really good time as a group and got to know each other better. On Wednesday, we learned more about the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. Our speaker who had just returned … More Geneva
Our journey to New York for the NMUN 2019 is almost three months away. As we look back at the last months, we can say with certainty that we have worked hard for a fantastic experience as the Tübingen Delegation representing Namibia. Besides writing our position papers, receiving speech training and preparing ourselves in NMUN … More Our Supporters
Despite having submitted the second draft of our position papers on Friday and having spent the whole of Saturday at a simulation of the General Assembly Plenary in Hohenheim, all of us gathered at 9am on a Sunday morning at the onset of the exam period for a speech training. We were lucky to be … More Speech Training
After a warm welcome with Butterbrezeln and gorgeous home-made cakes, we started the simulation at Hohenheim Castle which is a very impressive setting. It was a great opportunity to get to know delegates from Heidelberg and Hohenheim, and we realised that the size of the committee really matters. Unlike during our first simulation, we didn’t … More Hohenheim Castle Model United Nations (HCMUN)
