ELMUN starts! The General Secretariat wishes every participant a wonderful time and experience.
The main navigator “ELMUN 2025” provides you with this year’s committees, issues, schedule and the Daily Elephant!
ELMUN is short for Elephant Model United Nations and is a MUN-Conference that was founded in the Hermann-Böse Gymnasium in Bremen by Hannes Felix Grosch and Mrs. Hagemann in 2009. Over the decade the number of participants grew rapidly. Furthermore, we welcomed more students from abroad to the conference. ELMUN has established itself as an international MUN-Conference with over 200 participants each year.
Model United Nations, also known as Model UN or MUN, is an educational simulation and/or academic activity in which students can learn about diplomacy, international relations and the United Nation. MUN involves and teaches participants speaking, debating, and writing skills, in addition to critical thinking, teamwork, and leadership abilities. Usually an extracurricular activity, some schools also offer Model UN as a class. It is meant to engage students and allow them to develop deeper understanding into current world issues.
Participants in Model United Nations conferences, known as delegates, are placed in committees and assigned countries to represent, or occasionally other organizations or political figures, where they represent members of that body. Delegates are assigned countries before the conference, along with receiving a topic, or topics, that their committee will discuss. Delegates conduct research before conferences, formulate positions and come up with policy proposals that they will then debate with their fellow delegates in the committee, staying true to the actual position of the member they represent. At the end of a conference, the delegates will vote on written policies, called “draft resolutions”, with the goal of passing them with a majority vote. The best-performing delegates in each committee, as well as delegations, are sometimes recognized with awards.
Model UN participants include students at the middle school, high school, and college/university levels, with most conferences catering to just one of these three levels (high school and college conferences being most common). Delegates usually attend conferences together as delegations sent by their respective schools' or universities' Model UN clubs, though some delegates attend conferences independently.
