so i'm in the process of creating a munsoc for my uni. i have a decent number of people interested in joining and helping out (80+)

how much would it realistically cost to host a mun for like about 180-200 delegates, 6 committees with paid eb, food, delegate kit, etc?

also this is for an indian uni in a tier 1 city, muns are a huge thing in most schools and unis here.

Are muns a luxury for the rich and the middle class doesnt matter. Like i was checking the registration fee for some muns and the cheapest one was 3500rs. dude are you serious like its an educational competition try to have some compassion for the underprivileged and the middle class. Like if i want to attend 2 MUNs in a month i would need atleast 10k.

So on this weekend i have my first MUN, i have an idea abg what is to be done there but not of how it will be. Have no experience of public speaking and don't even know how to research for my country. Yes, I took UN in my first one, ik it's not very wise but my friend said it's alr and I did opt for that. I'm in UNHRC with pakistan and agenda is "Deliberating Upon the Protection of Human Rights in Conflict Zones with Special Emphasis on Gaza, Sudan, and Myanmar". If u guys can help me with anything on how to research, what to research, how to write position paper, gsl and also teach me a thing or two, I'd be very thankful. Please help me out on this one I'm cooked😭🙏🏼

So our school applied late to the conference in Jaipur and we were informed one day prior to the date of our extended submission. One paper was done (it is a dual topic committee) but the other one was left, we finished and submitted on the deadline.

But we forgot to add solutions and then we updated it and sent it again the following night then we found out about a typo and resubmitted it again today total time past deadline being about 38 hours

Are we still eligible for awards???

Please I need some help 😭

In my local mun, i was the only one who spoke in only english and not also our native language, I was a sponsor and co led our unanimous block and I spoke for every mod caucus like around 20+ times and so did another delegate who won BD, and I did some very good rhetorics where everyone would go “Ooo” and do the table bang thing, but guess who won OD? A delegate who spoke max 4 times and mainly guilt tripped and had raised no motions no leading no sponsor and 1-2 good points in our native language not even in english and the good points were glazed to give her motivation. Also spoke in minimal mod caucuses. I was included in bdcc but, like why would she win? Even BD was shocked and said how did that delegate win. Everyone’s out here glazing my chair when he was not fun at all, not to mention he ignored me three times during my bashing so i never had a proper bash debate. And at the end where we thanked chairs (before award ceremony) he replied to every delegate except me, he didn’t reply to me at all. So strange, this was my first MUN so like idk if i’d do it again if this is how much effort i put just for someone who barely did any to win OD. So disappointed, I wish I could get the OD because I don’t think I’ll even have another opportunity and even if I do what if I get stuck with a similar committee? Not to mention since it’s a local uni mun, all of the other committees had young and fun nice chairs while mine were so boring.

I'm going for my first mun ever. And our committee is UNCSW and the agenda is protecting the rights of women and children during crises. I got Algeria. I was low-key hoping for Iran, Saudi Arabia or even China but I couldn't get it since I was late to register. Any chances of winning anything let alone best delegate? If you have been a delegate before, please give me some advice!!! It would be appreciated a lot ❤️

Guys i am going to MUN for the first time ever and i know nothing about it, can someone guide me 0-100?

Hi guys, I actually want to try a muns but I don’t know how it works and if there are any good online opportunities that are like for beginners I don’t know if they are built for beginners or not, but I’m just trying to learn so any help will be appreciated. if you guys could guide me through the process of how everything works and how I could try one.

PS my mun is tomr

Hey guys I’m a student at Belgian university KUL and I really really want to join MUN society Belgium (msb), but I’ve heard that it’s near impossible to join, I have to write a paper on my motivation, then they pick about 20 people (out of hundreds who are applying), and then they will simulate a mun conference (each of us 20 is assigned a country), if I’m the best public speaker, only then will I be selected.

My question is, does anyone have any tips on how to sharpen my public speaking skills, the kind of person msb might be looking for, how to carry myself etc..

I would be insanely grateful

so I've been alloted palestine for my first ever mun and I've been lost in data, i need someone to guide me through it and provide a blueprint to arrange everything...

need some help for GSL as welll....

AGENDA-

Protecting the freedom of speech, expression, assembly and the media with specific focus on Articles 19 and 20 of the UDHR

Hey guys, my friend is attending this mun and I'd love to watch the ceremonies, is there a livestream or something?

experienced MUNer, with lots to go still, but i think i can pass down some knowledge. lmk if you want any advice or tips, ill give them to you from a chair, delegate, and outsider perspective

I usually get honorable mentions in mid-stakes conferences…but I also feel like bigger conferences the better for experience/college apps. should I attend it, and it would be great if anyone could give me insights on that conference!

hey everyone!

i did 8th and 9th grade in bangalore and attended around 3 muns there. they were mostly in international-school settings, were very well organized, and obviously had access to quite a lot of funding.

i personally had a pretty negative experience with muns and eventually stopped participating. now that i've moved to mumbai, i'm finishing 10th grade next february/march, and i'm seriously considering hosting my own mun in june 2027.

it started as a google docs idea and has somehow become... quite a lot. 😭

so far i've made:

a conference poster

an instagram page

a delegate registration form

placard designs

conference branding

a preliminary rulebook structure

a list of committees

ideas for the ipc, crisis system, gazette, etc.

the conference would currently have around 14 committees, which i know is ambitious 💀

conventional committees:

-unodc

-unscw

-specpol

-iaea

-who

-rajya sabha

-lok sabha

-indian cabinet

-hjccc (historical joint continuous crisis committee)

specialized / conference-wide committees:

-international press corps

-the royal chamber, a monarchy-themed committee 👑

-formula one 🏎️

-international justice tribunal

-international crisis directorate

the idea is that the ipc and icd would operate across the conference rather than simply being another committee sitting in a room.

for example, ipc members could be assigned as correspondents to different committees, conduct interviews, document developments and produce a daily conference publication. the icd would work with committee executive boards to create interconnected crisis developments across committees.

the ijt could also function as a judicial body where certain disputes arising from other committees could potentially be brought before the tribunal.

basically, i want the conference to feel like a single interconnected political world, rather than 14 completely isolated rooms.

if we actually ran all 14 committees at the size i'm imagining, we'd probably be looking at around 350-400 people including delegates, executive boards and secretariat.

and this is where i start thinking:

am i completely insane? 😭💀

i don't currently have a school or institutional affiliation in mumbai, so i would be organizing this independently. my initial funding would probably come from family, and i'm also considering finding a few other students who would want to co-create the conference and contribute to the initial budget.

i'd also want to approach potential sponsors, particularly education/coaching businesses, food partners, etc.

for the venue, my dream would be somewhere like the club in andheri, although realistically i'd also consider schools, auditoriums and other event venues depending on the budget.

for delegates, i'm thinking of reaching out directly to schools across mumbai and asking whether they'd be interested in sending delegations, alongside instagram-based marketing and registrations.

the slightly ridiculous part is that i don't actually know that many people in mumbai yet. 😭

my current plan for finding an organizing team is basically to look through instagram pages of muns around mumbai, identify people who seem to repeatedly be involved in conferences, and reach out to them to see if they'd be interested in helping build something from scratch.

not to mention i have no idea how i am going to find logistics members and photographers around the same age as high school students to actually participate in this mun so we can have the event run smoothly.

i'm also thinking of either getting catering from a place if we have enough budget for it. we can maybe get a sponsorship from a local cafe or bakery. we can have local vendors set up shop or worst case scenario there is no food.

i know that i've only attended three muns, which is very little experience for someone attempting something this elaborate. that's exactly why i'm posting here.

i'm not looking for people to simply tell me "go for it." i want people who have actually organized muns to stress-test this idea.

specifically:

-is a 300-400 person independent mun realistic for a first-time organizer?

-is 14 committees completely unreasonable, or can it work with a strong organizing team?

-what are the biggest logistical problems i'm probably overlooking?

-how much should i realistically budget for something like this?

-how difficult is it to get schools to send delegations to an independent conference?

-is sponsorship realistic for a student-run mun?

-should i dramatically reduce the number of committees for the first edition?

-are specialized committees like formula one, royal chamber, ipc and a conference-wide crisis directorate actually appealing to delegates, or am i designing this for myself? 😭

-what would you do differently if you were organizing your first mun?

the bigger reason i want to do this is that i want to create the kind of conference that i personally would have wanted to attend.

i want it to feel ambitious, immersive and genuinely memorable, rather than just being a collection of committee rooms.

the working idea behind the conference is essentially:

"for the students, by the students, and of the students."

i have no idea whether this will actually make it out of my google docs app and into a real venue next june. 💀

but i really want to try.

so, mun people of reddit: tell me what i'm getting myself into. 🥀😭

genuine question 😭 how do you guys ACTUALLY research for MUN beyond the usual check old UN resolutions, read your country’s foreign policy, use wikipedia, find dirt on others (this tip is borderline impossible cause everything is always hidden & needs to be dug up—still good tho i’ve used it continuously just hard to do) generic tips?

especially now that AI exists like everyone gives such generic advice to use AI to research faster but deadass HOW are people actually using it like strategically?

what are some actually underrated research methods, websites or like even prompts that give you information other delegates probably won’t have?

because tbh i feel like my research is always subpar at best when other delegates are pulling up facts i lowk haven’t even heard about 😭 pls help because i have the biggest mun in my country coming up soon !!

> Question: Why Do You Do MUN?

As the question says. I hope this question is allowed for the sub.

Wanted to find out what benefits you expect from MUN? Is this something that was suggested or did you find it on your own?

From Singapore here, MUN is kinda gatekeeped for the "better" schools, and this year private candidates cost 85 dollars from the past 45 dollars

So me and my friend (ive done 5, shes done 1) decided why not we host our own internal MUN. Probably only one council, 25 people max, but is it feasible? I kinda want MUN to be smth everyone tries at least once. (I used to go as school delegate so my fees were covered by the state, now im graduating so the school no longer can cover my fees since they are in december, when j have since graduated)

Thoughts and tips?

-delegate of Singapore <3

Heyy guys!! 🫶🏻 I’m planning to go as staff for Zeta MUN on 4th, 5th & 6th Sept at Grand Millennium Al Wahda( 5 star hotel at Abu Dhabi)

I despp need delegates interested and max participation from my behalf so I thought I’d reach out here. If you’re into MUNs, meeting new people, making friends, socials and just having a fun weekend, you should definitely consider coming🫶🏻

There’s food, transport from Dubai/Sharjah/Ajman, socials + an after-party, and a UN recognized certificate as well. Our certificates and awards are officially accredited by AISEC meaning our certificates now hold the exact international prestige and value as major global conferences .

If you’re interested, DM me for more info and pleaseee pleasee use my reference code FS-02 when registering 💗