The Sofia International Model United Nations
Conference
I-MUN Media Portal
UNPA Campaign
The Nikola Dymkoff Project
The UN House
SOFIMUN News Network
Projects realized by the SOFIMUN International
Foundation
The
SOFIMUN Foundation implements and realizes project
on a regular basis. Here are some of them:
The Sofia International Model United Nations
Conference
The
international students’ conference “Sofia
International Model United Nations” – SOFIMUN, is
the biggest summer summit in Bulgaria for young
specialists from Europe and the world. The event
is held on annual basis, each year in July and
gives a platform for over 180 young professionals
of over 50 nations to work on issues and problems
of the agenda of the United Nations organization.
During the conference, the participants take on
the roles of real diplomats and take part in
debates, consultations, developing decisions and
resolutions over current world issues.
The
SOFIMUN Conference is part of the very popular
traditional conferences, organized in over 30
world cities. SOFIMUN and all other conferences of
this kind are annual academic meetings of young
leaders from the diplomatic, politic, economic,
international relations and journalistic spheres.
Each year SOFIMUN gathers the most prospective
young specialists in the world - BA, MA and PhD
students from different universities and
institutes, junior specialists in diplomatic
missions, missions of international organizations,
media companies and humanitarian organizations.
The aim of the SOFIMUN conference and to the other
similar ones is the exchange of experience between
professionals of different spheres in a unique
multicultural surrounding; the advanced knowledge
over diplomacy, political and social sciences; the
contact with senior specialists in mentioned
fields by lectures, seminars, receptions.
I-MUN
is an online based media portal for all events,
conferences and projects organized worldwide in
which the young people are the main participants.
I-MUN is a project that is realized on the basis
of cooperation between NGOs, organizers of youth
activities and participants and also provides a
place for participants and organizers to share
news and personal opinion on the youth activities
worldwide. The portal is created especially for
conferences of MUN and MEU type to help them
popularize and/or contribute to their popularity,
recruit participants and facilitate the
information flow between organizers, and with
potential delegates. similar. I-MUN is a project
that is realized on the basis of cooperation
between NGOs, organizers of youth activities and
participants.
The
Campaign for the Establishment of a United Nations
Parliamentary Assembly (UNPA) is a global network
of parliamentarians and non-governmental
organizations advocating citizen's representation
at the United Nations.
At the
Campaign's launch in April 2007 at more than one
dozen events on five continents an international
"Appeal for the Establishment of a UN
Parliamentary Assembly" was published. In April
2009 the Campaign issued a "Call for Global
Democratic Oversight of International Financial
and Economic Institutions". The Campaign's
statements are supported by 3170 individuals from
136 countries, among them 671 members of
parliament, and 205 NGOs from all around the
world.
The
first international conference was convened in
November 2007 in the Palais des Nations in Geneva
under the patronage of former UN Secretary-General
Boutros Boutros-Ghali. The second international
conference was held in November 2008 in the
European Parliament.
The
SOFIMUN Foundation has been given the exclusive
honor to be the coordinator of this newest UN
campaign for Bulgaria and took over the
responsibility to promote it not only on national,
but also on international level, among government
institutions, partners and perspective young
leaders.
Nikola
Dymkoff is a Bulgarian engineer and notable public
figure, author of the book “Star of Concord” (“Etoile
de la Concorde”) - project for the creation of a
world organization which will ensure peace,
stability, scientific and cultural development
between nations and of the mankind. Dymkoff
completes his work in and publishes in French,
German, Turkish and Greek. Through the foreign
embassies in Constantinople, he manages to send
the book to many world leaders, including the
American president Thomas Wilson. According to
Wilson’s biographer, Baker, based on this book,
the president later creates his notable 14 points
for peace of the world, which are now popular as
the foundations of the United Nations.
Dymkoff’s project is a result of his personal
disillusionment with the wars as a way to attain
political objectives. He proposed the creation of
a world organization of accord and friendship, to
be administered by a Standing council. And he
divided this council into three – political,
religious and legal, whose members would be
unconditionally independent. The progressiveness
of his ideas noted by president Wilson turns
Dymkoff’s dream is reality- the United Nations.
Now Dymkoff is recognized as the forefather of the
organization, thus very little is known about him.
The popularization of the remarkable contribution
of Nikola Dymkoff to the world is one of the
SOFIMUN Foundation projects.
The UN house is a web based project for
popularization of the UN symbols and ideas. It is
the first internet campaign that brings the UN
symbols online and gives the ability to every
person do download the signs and symbols +
documents of the UN Organization.
It offers to the interested to download the
Charter of the United Nations, the UN flag, the UN
logo, the UN anthem, to learn more on the UN
building in New York, to read the Universal
Declaration for Human Rights, as well as basic
facts on UN.
The SNN is the official media of the Sofia
International Model United Nations conference. SNN
is a unique media project, launched for the first
time on the second SOFIMUN conference in July
2009. It is developed by the SOFIMUN Foundation to
keep all participants in the conference, partners,
sponsors, interested people informed about the
latest events and developments in the various
forums and lobbying areas present on the SOFIMUN
conference.
SNN is a new generation media, broadcasting
entirely online with text, pictures and video. It
is the first MUN media that launches news online
following the latest tendencies in web media
field. By doing so, the SNN become the very first
MUN media that is able to inform at first hand
24/7 for all developments on the conference and
provide its visitors with constant access and
update of the event’s content. As part of the
conference bodies, the media works with its own
team of journalists, editor-in-chief, photograph,
ICT. The uniqueness of this project is
supplemented by the variety of media it
represents. SNN is structured as a web press
center, where representatives of different global
media broadcast the latest news, write analyses,
take interviews and make reportages. In SNN, the
interested participants can choose to represent
one of 10 world media in 7 languages, such as BBC,
DW, Xinhua, Al Arabiya, to step in the shoes of
real journalists from those media while at the
same time provide their own view and have a
realistic insight into the international
journalism and the media influence over the global
affairs.
Thank you for your interest in the SOFIMUN
Foundation!
Let's do it the UN way,
let's do it TOGETHER
We believe that we can make a lot more things
better if we work together! Let's do it the UN
way, let's do it TOGETHER!
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with the know-how and ability to realize your
project, then reach us and we will together make
our dreams come true! The initiative is in your
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Join the next edition of the world
conference for young leaders - the Sofia
International Model United Nations in the
beautiful city of Sofia in Bulgaria. The
major event for Eastern Europe that sparkles
the spirit of tomorrow.
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