Pilsen Academy of Young diplomats 2016

Pilsen Academy of Young diplomats 2016 is a project focused on untraditional education of high school and university students from all over the Czech Republic. Through the United Nations (UN) model using the most realistic simulation possible, it aims to raise awareness about the UN among students and the general public. During the simulation of the meeting of the UN organs the participants will be apprised of the current international events and global issues, they will gain a better insight and a better understanding of politics and foreign affairs of particular countries and they will experience on their own that the problems, which are being discussed in the real UN, are not by far as black and white as they might seem.

Project PAYD also works on the students‘ soft skills, meaning their public speaking, etiquette knowledge, their ability to find consensus and compromise, teamwork, justifying their own or someone else’s opinion or their spoken and also written language. Together with the chance to meet significant figures from various fields and to make contacts, the project lays the groundwork for its participants‘ future career lives even beyond the borders of diplomacy.