Conference's official website: Under construction
The aim of the conference is to bring together young people and through this simulation help them enhance their knowledge about UNESCO (how it works, its values and aims), understand how the international community deals with global issues and have a constructive debate.
Participants are invited to SimUnesCO to express their ideas, explore one another’s view, develop their diplomatic and communication skills, negotiate, and propose innovative solutions. The participants are, also, requested to be very well prepared and informed about the structure of UNESCO, the committees in which they’ll be assigned ,the topic of each committee as well as the positions of the country they will be representing on these topics and last but not least the rules of procedure.
Participation submission deadline: July 15th 2013.
Registration fee: 30€ for delegates and 25€ for everyone else (translators, journalists, staff).
Organizing Committee:
Genitzes Ioannis, President of the Organizing Committee/ Head of Delegate Coordination
Koutsioumpa Konstantina, Vice-President of the Organizing Committee/ Head of Public Relations
Almalgoui Nantia, Head of Logistics
Linaroudis Georgios, Social Activities Coordinator
Gesouli Lamprini, Head of Administrative Staff
Devve Marisofi, Head of Academic Coordination
Lazari Theodora, Head of Media
Location:
Department of History/ Department of Archives and Library Science (Ioanni Theotoki 72, 49100 Corfu)
Ionian Academy (Kapodistriou 1,49100 Corfu)
UNESCO is an organization of the United Nations which works to create the conditions for dialogue among civilizations, cultures, and peoples, based upon respect for commonly shared values. It aims to the building of peace, the eradication of poverty, sustainable development and intercultural dialogue. UNESCO contributes towards the realisation of these goals through five major programmes: Education, Natural sciences, Social & Human sciences, Culture, Communication & Information.
