There are two kinds of application to a Model United Nations conference.
The first kind brings a school and its students to the conference. A school applies for a delegation. A teacher applies to lead it.
The second kind brings a student onto the team that runs the conference. Chairs, department managers, department members and the secretariat all apply for their roles.
Sending an application costs nothing. What a school pays for, and when, is set out in Fees, invoices and payment.
Only schools apply for delegations. A student cannot register on their own, however keen they are.
A school applies as a delegation. The conference grants it one or more countries. Each country gives the school one delegate seat in each General Assembly committee. So a school granted two countries sends two delegates to each General Assembly.
No two schools represent the same country.
Security Councils and Special Committees are for delegates with experience. A school can send extra delegates to those, on top of its General Assembly delegation. Those country assignments are decided later, not at the moment you apply.
A student who wants to be a delegate does not send anything. They ask the teacher who leads their school's delegation. The teacher enters them.
If your school has never taken part before. It will not be on the list of schools yet. A teacher asks for the school to be added first, then applies to lead it. Both steps are in Delegation applications.
| Application | Who sends it | Where to read about it | |---|---|---| | A school delegation | The teacher who will lead the delegation | Delegation applications | | School director | A teacher at that school | School director applications | | Chair | A student | Chair applications | | Department member | A student | Member applications | | Department manager | A student | Manager applications | | Secretariat | A student | Secretariat applications |
Not every role is open to every student. Some conferences draw their staff from one school and open chairing to everyone. See Who can apply for what before you start writing.
In MEDIMUN, the secretariat, the managers and the members are students of The English School, which is the school that organises the conference. Chairing is the exception. About half of the chairs come from other schools, and at least one chair in every committee is from The English School.
In MEDIMUN, every application is made in MediBook. You need a MediBook account before you can send one, and the account is free. See Creating your account.
Student applications appear under Forms for the session you are applying to. An application you are eligible for also appears on your MediBook home page under Applications open. Its closing date is shown with it.
SCREENSHOT: /medibook/sessions/22/forms - the Forms page with the Respond tab open and an application listed
The steps are the same whichever application you sent.
You send it. You get a confirmation on screen.
The organisers read it.
Some applications include an interview. You book a time yourself. See
A decision is published. See
Application results and offers.
You accept or decline. A place is only yours once you have accepted it.
You get set up for the conference. See After you are accepted.
If you are unsure which application to send. Ask what you want to do at the conference. If you want to debate, you want to be a delegate, and you speak to the teacher at your school. If you want to run a committee, you want to chair. If you want to run part of the conference itself, you want a department.
Applications do not all open at once. See Application timeline for the order they open in and roughly when.
If you have missed an application. It cannot be reopened for one person. Write to the organisers and ask what is still possible for this year. Do not send a partial application to hold your place, because there is no such thing.