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PIMUN NEWSLETTER - NOVEMBER 2014

CHAIR APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN

FUEL SUBSIDIESSEE PAGE 4

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PEOPLE SPOTLIGHT:CHAIR APPLICATIONS

ARE OPEN

The end of November brought on very good news for the 2015 edition of the Paris International Model United

team. Thanks to the dedication of Jan Lebendig (USG for Committees), La Caillout (USG for Institutional Relations) and

Hana Hudak (Secretary General), two subsidies were granted by the ILERI (1,000 euros) and the Institut dEtudes Politiques

(3,920 euros).

The allocated money will enable the covering of all necessary printing costs for upstream and downstream

organization of the event. Prior to the conference, the money will be used to the printing of: handbooks, identification badges,

signs bearing each represented countrys name, certificates of participation for each delegate and business cards for Secrtariat

executives. Then, during the conference, printing of paper to write down resolutions.

The receiving of subsidies confirms PIMUN is a viable project that is recognized by its partners who are willing to

renew their year after year. It reinforces the image PIMUN is constantly creating and striving for: that of a real international,

multicultural event, attracting youth elite from all around the world. The broad diversity of participants also highlight the

success and attractiveness of PIMUN. Students and partners create a single and unique professional, social and associative

network between Parisian universities which brings them recognition as education centers for excellene on the international

scene. Sciences Po, the universit Panthon- Assas and Panthon-Sorbonne, the Ecole Polytechnique, the ILERI, and the

American University of Paris are all founding partners of the Paris Model United Nations, which are joined this year by three

other instituions: the Universit Sorbonne-Nouvelle (Paris III), the Universit Paris-Diderot (Paris VII) and the INALCO.

Receiving money from our partner schools one of the largest delegations at the Paris International Model United Nations

2014 edition. Too many subsidy requests have been submitted for MUN projects to the Sciences Po administration, which

made the Conseil de la Vie Etudiante quite hostile to them. However, they still decided to support the project forr its benefits

to the Sciences Po community. Indeed, it should be noted that Sciences Po represented the largest delegation at the PiMUN

2014 conference last May. We can but only be thankful to both these universities for their renewed interest and trust in our

organization to help PiMUN grow and permanently establish itself as forward-looking and high-potential student project.

PIMUN receives first subsidies from ILERI and Sciences Po

SECRETARY GENERAL - Hana HudakEDITOR IN CHIEF - Lydia Abbas

CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE

- Florian Hulin - Marion Marigo - Rachel Collignon - Marine Barbaud

EXTRA

- Emilie Ronald - Panuga Pulenthiran - Nicolas Couzi - Arthur Loral

PARIS INTERNATIONAL MODEL UNITED NATIONS

HEAD OFFICE26, rue du Faubourg Saint-Jacques 75014 Paris FRANCE

EMAIL: secretary.general@pimun.fr coordination@pimun.fr

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The opening of Chair Applications, joint with the launch of the new website, caused much interest among the community on the social networks. A total of 31 applications for the different Chair positions within each of the fourteen committees of the 2015 Paris International Model United Nations have been submitted thus far.

Here is the statistics that have been observed by the Applications team. On a total of 31 applications received, a majority of candidates come from India and make up for an estimated 60% of the applicant pool. Applicants from Europe represent about 20% of the candidates. As for the rest, an estimated 10% of applicants come from Asian countries, 10% from the Americas (with 1 from Brazil). There are no applicants from North America for the moment.

Following reception of the applications, the team has drawn up a preliminary list of the candidates who satisfy the general conditions. It is the duty of the three Assistant Secretary-General for Applications to do a rapid filtering of applications by criteria (updated resume, cover letter, previous experience, level of English, motivation, willingness to write topic guides) to dismiss incomplete applications.

While applications that do not fulfill the selection criteria-cannot be processed, a compelling cover may carry its weight.

12 applicants met the criteria for selection at this stage of the recruitment campaign. In the final step of the recruitment, a Skype interview will soon follow to determine successful applicants into the different Chair positions and committees.

When selecting his team members, our USG for Applications, Xavier Lasri, insisted on availability. Nicolas Couzi, Elyn Allahyari and Tobias Rossi, all students from the ILERI, this facilitates the building of trust between each other, as well as the organization of team meetings. Indeed, the team meets very frequently (every three days) at school to work on the campaign.

There is no doubt that Xavier is committed to takes his job as USG for Applications very seriously and cares very deeply to conduct quality recruitment. We do highly expect the newly selected PiMUN Chairs next month to be the reflection of the high quality standards set for the year, and of the excellent work done by the entire Applications team.

In this issue

NOVEMBER

1 CHAIR APPLICATIONS

2 FUEL SUBSIDIES

3 WEBSITE LAUNCH

4 SENIOR EXECUTIVE UPDATE: UPCOMING EVENTS

FUEL SUBSIDIES

To be continued...

contact: applications@pimun.fr

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PIMUN SOIREEYou were quite a lot to join the social drinks event last Friday at the Hideout Bar Chtelet, in the heart of the capital to get to know each other in person and your Secretariat executives. We also had the pleasure to welcome members of the Ple Panthon-Sorbonne pour les Nations Unies, the MUN associa-tion of the Universit Paris 1 Panthon-Sorbonne. One of our USGs even had his birthday celebrated by surprise by the group! Watch out, you might be next!

I really really really like the design of the webpage. I especially like how clean the layout is -- things are not jumbled together and I think the colors really help with this too. I love the top scroll down bars with the pictures underneath it, which make the website easy to navigate. Overall, it looks really user friendly and professional.- Emilie Ronald, ASG Communications - Community Manager PiMUN 2014

WEBSITE LAUNCH: A VIEW FROM INSIDE

The website is well organized, clear and user-friendly. As you fill in the website, Im sure it is going to be even better and if there could be more pictures! - Panuga Pulenthiran, Press Corp PiMUN 2014

We were very excited to see our website launched last month after several months of development. It is now live and ready for the world to see and includes practical information about the conference for delegates. Communications, Applications, along with our web-master (Nicolas Legroux) and our Secretary General (Hana Hudak) worked together to provide a detailed overview of PiMUNs position as the most renowned student happening in France and the one of the biggest international student events. The website also hosts an online application portal for registrations, starting with our Chair recruitment campaign last month. The website was built by Nicolas Legroux, a student from the Ecole Polytechnique who designed the 2014 edition website and has remained committed to the PiMUN team for now two years. The layout is designed by Marine Barbaud, a fourth-year student at Intuit

Lab, a graphic design school in Paris where she receives training in corporate brand image. We use different me-dium and subjects and this is why I love what Im doing. I think that working on a project such as PiMUN is very beneficial to my work and its diversification. The website boasts a fresh, new identity which is the result of months of planning, organization and of a visual communications strategy established by both Marine and Marion Marigo, USG for Communications (see previous edition). We have worked together to thoughtfully build step by step the website and try to keep previously established codes to provide context for the event, while adding a modern twist to the design. I think weve done this very well! The success of the website, as well as the positive feedback from the PiMUN community mirrors the genuine complicity between the people involved in the project. Says Marine: Thank you everyone for this experience! Our team is lovely and I think we were all very involved in this project. While not being an ASG, I really felt carried away by the energy in the team. We still need better communication, but as we have laid down our basis and are very driven, lets jump on it! Well done, team!

Caf de lEngagement Etudiant PiMUN has been asked to participate in the Caf de lEngagement Etudiant, an event organized by the Universit Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle, on the university campus. Yin the 5th arrondissement (metro line 7, stop at Censier Daubenton) from 12 am to 3.30 pm on Friday December 12th. During the event, we will be providing passing students with information about our organization and the PiMUN event.

Three of our staff members will be present, but you are all encouraged to come to the event and help us promote PiMUN.The more, the merrier! The Caf de lEngagement Etudiant will take place in the lobby of the Centre Censier at 13, rue Santeuil.

Staff recruitmentIn December will begin the recruitment of volunteers for the conference. If you know any of motivated and reliable friends who

would like to staff during PiMUN, please refer them to us.

Chair Applications closingAs you all know now, the Chair Applications recruitment campaign has begun on the PiMUN website on November 17th. We are proud to announce receiving announce receiving 31 applications so far, however if you know someone who would make an excellent Chair for one of the committees, please do refer them to us.

Networking and VisitsIn December will start visits to potential venues, appointments with current or prospective partners. For better organization and coordination of those visits, please refer to USGs of teams involved and be ready or available to join the visits. As one of our main goal this year, we would tremendously

appreciate any intiative to help us fostering and sustaining with individuals and organizations. We trust in your support in any type of networking situation to help us promote PiMUN and our values.

FinanceThanks to the efforts of our USGs for Instutional Relations, Finance,

Applications and Committees, PiMUN has received donations from Sciences Po Paris and the ILERI. Subsidies requests have been submitted to other organizations.

SENIOR EXECUTIVEUPDATE :

UPCOMING EVENTS

NOVEMBER AGENDA

November 20th : Chair Registrations Opens

December: Staff Recruit-ment begins

December 12th : Caf de lEngagement Etudi-

ant event at the Universit Sorbonne-Nouvelle Paris 3

December 20th : Chair ap-plications campaign closes

December 25th: Christmas

Overall, the website is really good. The colors are eye-catching and promote a feeling of relaxation and comfort. The navigation is simple and effective and the content is clear. However, the website lacks a bit of illustrations except for the slideshow below the navigation menu and the photos of the USGs and the SG, which may discourage reading of the committees presentation page for instance. - Arthur LoralILERI Student and PiMUN 2014 Staff

PIMUN ALUMNI REACT

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TALK TO US!

We would love to hear your feedback about our newsletter so that we

can continue to improve it. We will select a few questions and answer them

in the next issue. What do you think about this issue? What did you like best,

or didnt like? What is your vision of community? We always appreciate our

readers sharing their points of view. and help us being better at we do.

In the spirit of collecting feedback, Wed love to know if you found this

post helpful. Please kindly share your thoughts to: coordination@pimun.fr!

CALL TO ACTION! We believe that we can all create an even stronger community.

Where every incredible content s rewarded, where our organization grows by telling stories that people love.

We have created a visually attractive, interactive newsletter to provide our team with all the latest achievements every month of the year. We try to

reward each member of our staff for their hard, dedicated work they do in the organizing

We hope youll come build that community along with us. Check out some solutions we thought about below.

How does working at PiMUN benefit your goals and aspirations? Like Marine (page 4), we would love to hear more about yourself!

Do you have an insider story to tell us? How do you feel working in your team? Feel free to email us with insights about your experience working at PiMUN. We like to hear different perspectives!

Are you thinking of someone who you think should deserve a spotlight in our newsletter? Please refer them to us with a message detailing why this person deserves to be acknowledged.

Is there a particular issue you want to write about? We welcome any ini-tiatives to write personal contributions in our newsletter to share with the rest of the PiMUN team.

Do you remember of fun or compelling moments during meetings with your team? Feel free to email us with any quote, thought or ideas. Pic-tures also speak a thousand words.

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