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About us
Global Youth Conferences runs international summits, Model UN conferences, leadership training and short bootcamps for people aged roughly 16 to 30. We have been doing it since 2019.
The youth conference circuit has a quality problem. There are genuinely excellent programmes, and there are events that charge four figures for a photograph with a lanyard. From the outside, at the point where a nineteen-year-old is deciding whether to spend their savings, the two are hard to tell apart.
We started Global Youth Conferences to run the first kind, and to be specific enough in public that anyone can check which kind we are.
Every programme is built backwards from a single question: what does a delegate have on the last afternoon that they did not have on the first morning? If the honest answer is “photographs and a certificate”, the programme is not ready.
In practice that means mornings are plenary, afternoons are working sessions with an output, and every delegate leaves with a project plan that a practitioner has read and marked up. Committee work at our Model UN conferences follows standard UN4MUN procedure, chaired by people who have done it before.
Fees are split in two. A small registration fee confirms your seat when you apply. The larger delegate fee is invoiced only after your application has been reviewed and accepted, so nobody pays the full amount for a place they have not been offered.
A limited number of partial waivers are available each intake for delegates from low-income countries. There is a note field on every registration form; use it.
Events have been hosted across Europe, Africa and Asia, with online programmes running throughout the year for delegates who cannot travel. Venue and visa information is published on each event page as soon as it is confirmed — never before, because a venue listed and then changed is worse than a venue listed as pending.
Operating principles
These are the commitments that shape every programme, and the ones you should hold us to.
No delegation may exceed 25 delegates. A conference where one country holds a third of the floor is not an international conference, whatever the brochure says.
Applications are read by a person, not filtered by a form. Every delegate is paired with a mentor who reviews their project plan before the closing session.
Study guides and committee assignments are published six weeks ahead. Delegates who arrive prepared get more out of the week, so we make preparation possible.
Roughly a third of every cohort has never attended an international conference. The programme is built for them, not for the circuit regulars.