16/03/2026
This year, MUN defended the value of water. Although it seems straight forward, the topic can get deep. Island life means water is all around us, but it is easy for the ways in which water is used to fly under our radar.
MUN’s starting point is workshop day. Stations are planned and plotted around the Slotsgade campus to introduce students to the pool of water-driven global issues. Nahl from S10 commented, “I found all the workshops very interesting and interactive, very relevant to the topic of water. I learnt a lot about what is going on with the world and water.” The workshops are the preamble to committee work, and “…give a good impression of what committee would be like,” S10’s Arul added.
Among the favourite workshops was ‘Holding Big Tech Companies Accountable’, ‘Water: Human Right or Commodity?’, and “’Indigenous Waterways’, because Theo gave a quite passionate speech about them. You felt this was a serious topic with many peoples’ livelihoods at stake.”
With topics chosen, position papers were prepared. Research time is focus time, because after positions are penned, debates ensue. To curry favour and gain support, each country must defend their position and convince members that their solution is beneficial and realistic. This is called the “unmoderated caucus”, and this is where information is gathered, plans are laid, and promises are either kept or broken. Cause and consequence are intimately known after the unmoderated caucus. Another representative from S10, Samuel, shared his experience, “there was a lot of backstabbing and trickery and scheming behind peoples’ backs, leading to quite the chaos.” Nischal echoed the experience, “Yes, it was lively. An internal member of our delegation leaked classified information to another country.” For some, this is part of MUN’s natural tides, and others “…saw it as betrayal.”
When it was general assembly time, delegates were ready to present and answer questions in front of the whole MUN body, their teachers, and a few parents. S10’s Victor described the general assembly as, “very tense.” “It was very exciting and suspenseful to hear everybody’s ideas and to see how it was taken by other countries.”
For all involved, the takeaway was quite unanimous. New connections were made between students across the departments. A better understanding was gained of human nature and intrigue. And the ever-present METAskills were challenged and fine-tuned, “I improved on using certain METAskills such as collaboration, hearing out other people’s ideas… Everybody’s collaboration was memorable this year, as this MUN, everybody seemed prepared and very interactive.”
In the end, two countries’ resolutions tied for the top position and will make memories over a meal together at Storms Pakhus.
