Youth Assembly

The Youth Assembly (YA) is a diverse community of international students that discusses critical and global challenges, finding unique solutions through the multicultural perspectives of its members. The BERMUN Youth Assembly aims to address pressing issues affecting young people, empowering them to act and channel their passions towards local projects. The YA is seeking up to 30 students to join its leadership team each year. Interested students should submit a completed YA application before the deadline (see Registration Details for dates).

This year's YA theme is "Integrating Civil Society - Fostering a Global Identity and Fighting Fragmentation through Local Initiatives"

In light of this year’s annual BERMUN conference topic (Fostering Global Citizenship among Identities and Responsibilities) the YA searches to promote a global identity by implementing grassroot initiatives operating on a local level. The initiatives may focus on different topics such as climate change or class, national, ethnic, racial, gender, or age discrimination.

We encourage constructive, local action plans that promote ways to inclusively bring diverse identities together in a mutually shared global citizenship. In an individual action plan each participant decides on a topic and then proceeds to choose which operators to make use of (public speaking, social media, education in school etc.). The theme allows for creative and unique ideas that can be exchanged and improved through discussions with other participants. With this variety of options we hope to motivate you to create your own initiative and invite you to join and collaborate in our youth assembly.

The YA application includes the following:

1. A letter of motivation (150-200 words), which includes:

• Previous involvement in your community (i.e. class representative, community service etc.)
• Previous experience(s) with a school Student Council
• Why are you interested in applying to the Youth Assembly?
• Previous MUN experience in the order of conference, committee, position, year.
• Why are you interested in this year's YA theme and what does it mean to you?

2. A personal statement (200-300 words), including:

• Describe the opportunities for civil engagement in your community, i.e. school, neighborhood etc.
• What are some opportunities in your community to be involved in and/or find a platform for socially and politically opinionated people to voice their affairs?
• What are the main obstacles preventing students from becoming involved in their community? How could these be overcome?
• Outline your ideas for creating and implementing a realistic local project applicable to the YA them. [Note: this project could be the improvement/addition to an existing initiative or institution or the creation of something new.]

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Reminder: Applications submitted after the application deadline will not be considered for a position.

For further information please contact the Youth Assembly Directors via email at youthassembly@gmail.com.