Promoting a greater understanding of the role, functions and potential of the United Nations, with speaker events, socials, and the home of Model UN debate in Cambridge.
Model UN-style debates are held every Monday at 7pm. They're designed for people of all experience levels and we have a lot of beginners, as well as some experienced debaters. We send delegates to Model UN conferences as well as hosting two of our own here in Cambridge.
Friendly gatherings ranging from relaxed evening discussions about international politics and anything else, to punting, and formal halls in different colleges around Cambridge. Socials are a little different this year, but still lots of fun and a great way to meet new people.
Regularly hosting speaker events during term time involving experts, international representatives and academics on various UN-related topics and wider global issues, from UN career advice to international warfare.
Collaborating nationally with UNAs across the UK to promote the Youth Delegate Program, as well as promoting and representing Youth Engagement in UN affairs globally and spreading awareness about international issues.
The CUUNA Committee with Ban Ki Moon, former Secretary General of the United Nations
We don't charge a membership fee, and anyone (CUUNA member or otherwise) is welcome at all our events.
If you would like to get more involved in CUUNA, please sign up to our mailing list. We'll send you emails with updates about events and opportunities. We won't email you too often, and you can unsubscribe at any time.
You can also find all of our events on our facebook page and on our termcard.
We host one of the oldest and largest Model UN conferences in the UK each year, as well as a seperate conference for secondary school students. Our delegations attend conferences throughout the UK and globally.
We update this list regularly, so all of these are current opportunities to get more involved in CUUNA, as well as attending our events of course. If you're thinking about joining the CUUNA committee, you can run at our AGM in Lent term.
Cambridge University International Model United Nations is an annual conference for university students to participate in a simulation of the United Nations. CUIMUN is the oldest MUN conference in Europe and typically has over four hundred attendees. The conference will take place virtually in November 2021.
We are looking for motivated and committed Secretariat members. You do not need any experience of MUN to apply!
Contact: Flora Thurston, fmt26@cam.ac.uk
This exciting and popular project intends to give CUUNA and ERC members the opportunity to gain a real insight into the work of the UN through a visit to the UN headquarters in Summer 2021, followed by a trip to Vienna the following year. Yet to be finalised and formalised, the trip will contain trips and talks to organisations and with representatives, as organised and agreed upon by the project Taskforce. Although COVID-19 has massively impacted the possibility to organise such an event, contacts and talks with WFUNA have proved that there remains much potential to realise this project in the future, ensuring that this unique opportunity remains accessible for CUUNA members.
Contact: Emily Wallis, elw72@cam.ac.uk, Megan Hackett mmh54@cam.ac.uk
With this project, we aim to promote female education in rural parts of Africa by supporting the work of an NGO called CAMFED. We plan to raise money for CAMFED through fundraising events, such as screening CAMFED films/documentaries, partnering with local businesses to create and sell products, coinciding with CAMFED appeals (International Women's Day) and other established Cambridge events such as Pink Week. We also plan to raise awareness through speaker events, writing articles and circulating posts/infographics via social media. Another goal is to build relationships with CAMFED schools, creating a pen-pal scheme and sending motivational letters to fellow students in the schools with which CAMFED work. We also aim to liaise with various other societies and organisations to promote CAMFED, encouraging partnerships between people who have the same goals.
Contact: Emily Wallis & Flora Thurston
elw72@cam.ac.uk & fmt26@cam.ac.uk
The UNA Youth Platform is a collaborative project bringing together youth UNAs, MUN societies, and other relevant youth clubs, societies, and organisations across the United Kingdom. Our core efforts serve to provide a national landscape for the discussion of real international youth issues, pertaining both to the UK, and to the wider world, hosting national events and campaigns to spread awareness and provide young people a voice on the global stage. To provide a national body to share best practices and support the development of local youth MUN and UN-related societies a well as the UK Model UN circuit of conferences. The goal of this ERC project is to coordinate the CUUNA delegation to UNA-YP, make sure UNA-YP remains strong and stable and re-establish it if it collapses.
Contact: Rakoen Maertens rm938@cam.ac.uk
At CUUNA, we're starting a new External Relations Committee Project called the Cambridge Policy Unit for Social Development Goals - and we are looking for people who want to join!
The aim of the project is to investigate the progress that Cambridge has made in the implementation of the UN Social Development Goals, as well as research and devise policy recommendations with the possibility of collaborating with the Cambridge City Council and/or other University-level bodies for implementation.
The idea is to have 3-4 student-lead teams based on SDG themes, and include students of all levels and academic disciplines at Cambridge.
Contact: Gauhrishi Narang
gan26@cam.ac.uk
The CUUNA Club is a great new initiative to connect members of CUUNA with Cambridge Alumni and other UN affiliates and its partner organisations in order to build, develop and maintain international, national and local relations.
Contact: Megan Hackett & Élise Lannaud
mmh54@cam.ac.uk & eml56@cam.ac.uk
This ambitious project was initiated in Lent Term 2020 and its aim is to facilitate greater youth engagement with the UN by hosting a WFUNA Youth Meeting and/or a WFUNA Youth Seminar to be hosted at Cambridge University in the academic year 2021/2022.
Contact: Sam Crooks
sjc294@cam.ac.uk
We are a founding member of the UNA-UK Youth Partnership, through which we collaborate with other United Nations Associations on projects including establishing a UN Youth Delegate Program.
