{"id":16972,"date":"2019-05-03T09:56:06","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T07:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uchceu.es\/campus-life\/?p=16972"},"modified":"2020-09-25T10:00:42","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T08:00:42","slug":"lets-go-to-new-york-and-talk-things-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uchceu.es\/campus-life\/en\/lets-go-to-new-york-and-talk-things-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Let’s go to New York and talk things out!"},"content":{"rendered":"

2,600 delegates from 236 different countries travelled to New York to take part in a United Nations Conference<\/strong>, where students from CEU got to represent Vietnam. It was for the FWWMUN<\/strong><\/a> (Future We Want MUN), the only model United Nations debate that, the organisation claims, allows the equal participation of young people from every country. An excellent opportunity that the students from the MUN Club<\/strong><\/a> at CEU Valencia did not want to miss out on. Future leaders from all over the world were bringing their proposals with views on how to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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CEU students in Madison Square, the heart of New York City!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When they found out last October that, in February, New York would host the biggest, most important meeting of this kind, Tom\u00e1s Agust\u00edn Alassia<\/strong> (Law, focusing on International and EU Law); Maite Bellido<\/strong> (Journalism and Audio-visual Communication); \u00c1lvaro Bombal<\/strong> (Political Sciences and Law); Joan Segura<\/strong> (Law, focusing on International and EU Law); Tomiris Sugirbek<\/strong> (Audio-visual Communication, Advertising and Public Relations); Yaiza Vivo Espinoza<\/strong> (Law and Business Administration), all started to raise the funds to take part in this unique experience.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe students, especially the club veterans had the desire to do a more ambitious project, something more complex that posed a real challenge, like the Model United Nations.\u201d Something like that is challenging because \u201ccompleting tasks in pairs is difficult for us because we have always participated individually,\u201d states Tom\u00e1s. He also highlights that in order to prepare for the event, they had help from Alberto Ort\u00ed<\/strong>, a coach from the debates forum at CEU who has also trained many of the MUN club members: \u201cAlberto trained us to participate in the project, conducting debates in English<\/strong> so that we could gain experience and become more fluid in the specific language which is used\u201d, he assures adding that: \u201cWe also had support from the English professor Noel Fitzpatrick<\/strong>, who helped us with the position papers\u201d.<\/p>\n

A priceless international experience<\/strong><\/h4>\n

With a challenge decided on, and training started for the debates, the CEU students, with the help of the university, decided to launch a campaign to raise funds to finance a large part of the costs. They did it. Once they were there the \u201cVietnamese delegates\u201d, really benefited from the experience. So they told us.<\/p>\n\r\n