About Us

What is URJCmun?

URJCmun was born in 2013 as an initiative to promote the interest of the university community in the United Nations, international relations and diplomacy. After many years of work from the organization, and a magnificent participation of students every year, we have become the largest Model United Nations in Spain and Europe. However, although the numbers are different, the spirit is the same as in the very beginning: to change the university experience of everyone who passes through it.

About Us

What is URJCmun?

URJCmun was born in 2013 as an initiative to promote the interest of the university community in the United Nations, international relations and diplomacy. After many years of work from the organization, and a magnificent participation of students every year, we have become the largest Model United Nations in Spain and Europe. However, although the numbers are different, the spirit is the same as in the very beginning: to change the university experience of everyone who passes through it.

URJCmun is born
2016
First participation of sponsors; established as the 4ht biggest Model UN in Europe
2021
We celebrate our 10th anniversary
2013
After trying Fuenlabrada and Vicálvaro, the Móstoles campus becomes the annual venue of the event
2019
The 9th edition is a success thanks to a proper compliance to the COVID-19 rules
2022

What is a MUN?

The acronym MUN refers to “Model United Nations.”

MUN stands for Model United Nations. A Model UN at college level is a competition where students from different degrees debate representing different United Nations countries. Each representative, also called “delegate” participates in a committee where specific topics are discussed, going from social to economic issues, with vary many others in between!

The purpose of delegates in the committee is to find consensus among the other delegations and draft a working paper that, after further debate, will end up becoming a resolution on whichever topic they were discussing.

Europe's biggest MUN

After URJCmun was born in 2013 in Vicálvaro, it was not too late before some of URJCmun’s most classic traditions, parties and carnations, began, in 2014. In 2016, we had over 600 participants, and finally reached 

more than a thousand in 2020. After celebrating the event during the pandemic with a very strict, and successful, safety protocol, we became Europe’s biggest MUN in 2021.

Alessandra Pereira is a double major on Journalism and International Relations student at Rey Juan Carlos University. After leading URJCmun TEEN in 2022, she now takes on this position with immense love for the project and the desire, as the trajectory marks, to make each edition better than the previous one. She believes and is convinced that projects like URJCmun are those that make a difference in the college experience and in people’s careers, and she is aware that hers will always be marked by this model.

Montserrat Martorell is currently in his fourth year studying Protocol, Event Organization and Corporate Communication at Rey Juan Carlos University. It was his interest in international affairs that motivated him to be involved in URJCmun. After being Staff at URJCmun 2020 and 2021 and Director of Staff in the third edition of URJCmun TEEN 2022, he wanted to continue learning within this great family. He hopes to help create an unforgettable experience for all participants, as well as a good learning space to grow, just as URJCmun has been for him.

Nair Robleda is 20 years old and is studying a double major on International Relations and Political Science and Public Management. She is a proactive and hard-working person, who would love to be able to help many people with his work in the future. Last year, she was part of the team as General Director of URJCmun TEEN, and this year she returns as USG for Coordination at URJCmun. Nair, as a future internationalist and political scientist, has decided to continue being part of the team to gain extra experience in this field and to be able to offer the opportunity to grow, in debate and oratory, to more young people like her who have not yet had the opportunity to do so until now.

Alba Jiménez is a 19-years-old International Relations student. She is an outgoing and social person, always willing to live new challenges and experiences. As a future internationalist, and after having participated in URJCmun and more simulations, Alba has decided to start a new stage as part of the URJCmun team, in which she hopes to show her essence, perseverance and team spirit as USG for Finance. Her goal is for the participants to take advantage of this event and experience URJCmun as the unforgettable experience it was for her.

This is Paula Martín’s third year studying the major on Protocol, Organization of Events and Corporate Communication. She is from Madrid, although she considers herself to be more from Extremadura, where she lived while studying a higher degree in cooking. She is passionate about Model United Nations and debate simulations, and when she graduates she wants to specialize in international relations and become part of the diplomatic corps. After being part of the URJCmun TEEN 2022 Secretariat, she faces this new challenge with enthusiasm and eagerness. She wants this edition to be unforgettable for all the participants.

Paula Gómez is twenty-one years old and is a fourth-year student of the degree on Protocol, Organization of Events and Corporate Communication at the Rey Juan Carlos University. She has participated in URJCmun ever since she started college, because it has allowed her to live the full university experience. In the MUNs that she has participated in, she has learned, grown as a professional and met incredible people. She is a hard-working person, responsible and determined to meet her goals within the field of events organization, which is why she participates once again in this type of event: to give the best of herself and transmit her desire and passion to the participants.

Elvira de Blas is studying her last year of the dregree on Protocol, Organization of Events and Corporate Communication at the Rey Juan Carlos University. Her first time at URJCmun was as a Staff member, but she has realized that she wants to dedicate herself to the world of communication and she hopes to obtain new skills and experience that can serve her in the professional future this year. She is a person with a lot of initiative and the ability to provide creative solutions in the shortest possible time, and she is always looking for inspiration and new ideas to adapt to the projects she carries out. Elvira is very excited to be part of the URJCmun 2023 team and looking forward to letting this great experience help her grow as a person.

Marta Hernández Trujillo is a Protocol, Organization of Events and Corporate Communication student. Creative, curious and hard-working are three words we can use to describe her. Marta has always been eager to learn and try new things, which is why we can always find her in a new project giving her full potential.

She started as part of the Logistics team in URJCmun and then became the Staff Director of URJCmun TEEN, however in this new stage she will be part of the Administration team. Marta is willing to use all her endeavour and cunning in this project to offer the participants an unforgettable experience.

Carmen Revilla is an International Relations (in-English) student Rey Juan Carlos University. She started in the world of debates and Model United Nations in high school, and she has continued to participate in everything that was related to it ever since she started her degree. Debates and simulations aside, Carmen has a lot of concerns. Fashion, art, and politics are other hobbies of hers. Learning new things is something that she is passionate about, and that is why she always signs up for everything that can bring her something new or different, and always giving her best. Thus, Carmen takes on this new experience as part of the URJCmun 2023 team with great enthusiasm and enthusiasm.

Rebeca is a 20 year old student of Protocol, Events Organisation and Corporate Communication at the URJC. From a small town in Huesca, she is a hard-working girl, passionate about travelling, very sociable and fun. Her dream has always been to study in Madrid and she arrived three years ago with the greatest of illusions. She wanted to meet new people and broaden her knowledge in the field of event organisation, which she loved so much. That is the reason that led him to participate for the first time in 2020 in URJCmun and since then it has become his must have during the course. That is why this year he decided to apply to be part of the secretariat, so he could share his enthusiasm for this experience with the rest of the participants and learn more about this great event.

Aitana Sánchez Alario is 20 years old, and she’s a student of Protocol, Organization of Events and Corporate Communication. She’s passionate about several life pleasures: reading, watching films and series, acting, and playing the drums. Despite having already studied half of her degree and the title of Group Leader, she is still looking for her ultimate passion and vocation.

 

She discovered this simulation’s world thanks to URJCmun, and since 20021 she has been there for every simulation she has had the chance to. At first, she did it as a Staff member, but with courage, she finally signed up as a delegate. Having been in those both worlds, it was time for her to organize one of these events.

SENIOR ADVISOR

Álvaro R. Poblete

ADVISOR

Lucía Mantecón