Conference Directory · Europe
Continental Europe is home to the most influential school conference in the world. THIMUN, held each January in The Hague, gathers around 3,000 students from more than 100 countries and lends its name to the procedure used by international-school conferences across three continents: lobbying first, consensus-driven debate, and little emphasis on individual awards.
Around the flagship sits a deep bench of school-hosted conferences. The Hague alone adds MUNISH and HagaMUN, Germany runs BERMUN in Berlin, MUNOL in Lübeck, and MUNOG near Stuttgart, and FerMUN gives delegates the rare experience of debating inside Geneva’s actual UN and agency buildings, in two languages.
10 conferences listed · Last verified July 2026
THIMUN Foundation · The Hague, Netherlands
The world’s flagship school-level Model UN: four days at the World Forum with GA, ECOSOC, and Security Council simulations under the original THIMUN procedure. Attendance runs through THIMUN-affiliated school delegations rather than individual sign-ups.
International School of The Hague · The Hague, Netherlands
A student-run three-day THIMUN-procedure conference in its fourth decade, among the largest school-hosted conferences in Europe and a common warm-up for THIMUN itself.
Lycée International de Ferney-Voltaire · Geneva area, France & Switzerland
A fully bilingual English-French conference held inside Geneva’s international institutions, including the UN Office at Geneva, WIPO, and the ITU, with student interpreters working the rooms.
John F. Kennedy School · Berlin, Germany
A four-day international schools conference established in 1992 after the fall of the Berlin Wall, with a regional sister conference, BERMUN2, each spring.
Thomas-Mann-Schule · Lübeck, Germany
A week-long simulation of UN organs run almost entirely by pupils of the host school, held annually since 1997 with delegates aged 14 to 18 from more than ten countries.
Goldberg-Gymnasium · Sindelfingen, Germany
A five-day simulation with committees on human rights, security, climate, and economics. The organizers describe it as demanding, with strong political knowledge expected.
Gymnasium Haganum · The Hague, Netherlands
A weekend student-run conference founded in 2010, simulating the GA, Security Council, and other organs with international school delegations from across Europe.
Harvard University students with a local host team · Rotating world city
Harvard’s traveling flagship collegiate conference, co-hosted with university students in a different city each year, frequently in Europe. Listed for context: it is a university conference.
GIMUN (student-run NGO with ECOSOC consultative status) · Geneva, Switzerland
A five-day conference simulating UN bodies at venues including the Graduate Institute and the UN Office at Geneva. Listed for context: it is a university conference.
MUN societies of ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich · Zurich, Switzerland
A three-day international collegiate conference co-organized by the ETH and UZH student societies. Listed for context: it is a university conference.
THIMUN works through affiliated schools rather than individual registration: a school applies for THIMUN affiliation and then brings a delegation. Most delegates warm up at affiliated conferences like MUNISH, HagaMUN, or their regional equivalents before the January flagship. If your school is not affiliated, those surrounding conferences are the practical way in.
Resolutions come first. Delegates spend the opening of the conference lobbying: negotiating and merging draft resolutions with other delegations before formal debate begins. Debate then focuses on those merged resolutions, and there are typically no individual delegate awards. It rewards writing and coalition-building over floor dominance, the opposite emphasis from most North American conferences.
Almost all of the international-school conferences listed here debate in English, since it is the shared language of their delegations. FerMUN in Geneva is the notable exception in format: it runs fully bilingual English-French committees with student interpreters.
Start with the two-week first-conference prep plan, print the first-conference checklist, and draft your paper with the position paper template. The guide to how awards actually work explains what chairs score once you get there.