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Now in its fifth year, the COBIS Music Festival is a wonderful weekend of workshops, competitions, performances and fun social activities. This fantastic event celebrates talented COBIS students from around the world through a full programme, providing them with the opportunity to meet and socialise with students from other countries. Schools must register on behalf of students. Schools can bring a maximum of 20 students (this number may depend on the number of schools that sign up). There will be several workshops over the weekend, with: Dominic Peckham – Conductor (National Youth Choirs of Great Britain) Ioanna Ismyridi – Conductor/Repetiteur (Cottbus Philharmonic Orchestra) Andrew Plummer – Lead Singer/Guitarist (Snack Family, World Sanguine Report, Bilbao Syndrome) For more information, please click here .

The Hague International Model United Nations (THIMUN) started small, as a local MUN conference in The Hague in 1968. Nearly half a century later, THIMUN has become a global leader in the MUN community, with four yearly MUN conferences as well as other regular MUN-related events throughout the world. THIMUN also provides crucial support for countless other MUN conferences throughout the world. The original conference in The Hague is a five-day simulation of the United Nations for secondary school students, which takes place at the end of January each year in the World Forum Convention Center in The Hague. Since then, THIMUN has branched out and become more accessible to young people worldwide. Now, THIMUN organises four events annually: five-day conferences in The Hague, Singapore and Qatar, as well as the one-day MiniMUN, also in The Hague. THIMUN now attracts over 3,200 students and teachers from around 200 schools located in countries as far apart as Norway, Australia, China and Ecuador. During the event, participants will have collaborative solution-oriented discussions on important issues. Attendants of THIMUN conferences aims to seek, through discussion, negotiation and debate, solutions to the various problems of the world: e.g. questions of human rights, protection of the environment, economic development, disarmament, the problems of youth and of refugees, as well as the more critical issues of war and peace. The research and preparation required, the adoption of views and attutudes other than their own, the involvement and interaction with so many other young people from around the world, all combine to give participants a deep insight into the world’s problems, to make them aware of the causes of conflict between nations and to lead them to a better understanding of interests and motivation of others. The purpose of THIMUN is to instill life-long passion for improving the global community into today’s youth, who will be tomorrow’s leaders. For more information, visit the official website at  https://thehague.thimun.org

As a Netherlands-based European organisation, TEIMUN offers workshops, Model United Nations (MUN) simulations and plenty of opportunity for networking with other cultures. Workshops within the MUN society are based around MUN skills as public speaking, writing resolutions and debating that are of high value in any future career. During the workshops participants will be trained in these areas and in the end will participate in a MUN to show their new skills. TEIMUN is particularly aimed at students, and through the use of workshops, they hope to make the MUN world accessible for everyone. TEIMUN has been organising MUN conferences in the Netherlands since 1987, making them the oldest MUN of continental Europe. Their simulations provide discussions on global affairs with other students in several councils as the General Assembly, North Atlantic Council, Security Council, G20 and Human Rights Council, and therefore provide a great insight into real-world politics and the functioning of different political bodies. As well as debating and learning new skills, TEIMUN is also about meeting people from all over the world and getting in touch with different cultures. Social events such as the Global Village and the Beach BBQ provide opportunities to relax and form important connections after intensive debating. It is this combination of MUN sessions and socials makes TEIMUN unique and an unforgettable experience for all involved. For more information visit the official website here .