Associazione Diplomatici

Diplomatici Association" is an educational and training school made up of students, teachers, university lecturers and young professionals.
Since 2000 it fosters the participation of Italian students (from middle to secondary schools, and universities) in the Model United Nations (MUN), the well known simulations of multilateral processes reproducing the action and works of the main United Nations organs.
It's been the first public body to take part in a MUN. Founded during the year 2000 in Catania, firstly linked solely with the local University, today its presence is witnessing a massive growth, with centres all over the national territory. It also benefits from the patronage of renowned academic and scholastic institutions. Nowadays Diplomatici constitutes the only European body accredited by the National Collegiate Conference Association inc. (NCCA) for universities.
Since its creation, the association has been providing itself with a Scientific Committee, formed by highly regarded personalities of the academic world, which selects the most deserving students: through this selection a proper preparation for the UN initiatives is assured.
The action of "Diplomatici" reconstructs a process, very popular in the Anglo Saxon model, based only on the students' initiative: in fact, it is characterized as a project conceived by the students, asserting a model of didactic experience in which are predominantly the students themselves to pass on to their younger colleagues the required elements and abilities in order to take part in the UN simulations. Nevertheless, since the very beginning, it's been pursuing a line which stimulates the deepest synergic involvement of the main components of the academic sector (teachers and students) presenting itself as a context open to debate and exchange of views about the major international issues with the utmost respect for every opinion and diversity. Owing precisely to this mix of different sensibilities, such as those of people who experience university as teachers (therefore carrying out the teaching profession) and who, instead, as a student, go through university studies temporarily, (experiencing them as an internship in his professional formation), that this outstanding synergy of ideas, wisdom and professional abilities determined its success: thanks to all the students, lecturers, teachers, chief administrative officers, representatives of the diplomatic corps and mere supporters who willingly joined the project, the Diplomatici association has been always depicted as an organization which encourages a close and honest dialogue, held with profound respect towards all the different ideas and opinions. The interchange between these two worlds, which sometimes differs dramatically, has been constituting the most decisive moment of this experience, and we believe it aims to be set exactly in the idea of respecting diversities through the exaltation of the dissimilarities which endow every human being in a unique manner.