Info For You Lot United Nations Show Contender (Many Languages, I World) - Sponsored Trip To Boston In Addition To Novel York -- Deadline Extended!

MANY LANGUAGES ONE WORLD
United Nations Academic Impact Student Essay Contest


Program(s) Offered: Essay writing
Program Level: Undergraduate (college, university)
Provider: United Nations
Country to Write in: USA

Scholarship Description
The United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) together with ELS Educational Services Inc. (ELS) organizes an international essay-writing competition for college together with academy students on the piece of occupation of multilingualism inwards a globalized world.

Under the overall theme of “Many languages — One world”, students are asked to write an essay inwards which they are to verbalize over together with ground the value of multilingualism inwards the broader context of global citizenship — i of the center principles of the United Nations Academic Impact.

The UNAI, inwards collaboration alongside ELS, invites students who are enrolled inwards a course of instruction anywhere inwards the globe to participate inwards its 2017 essay competition on the theme “Many Languages, One World.

 United Nations Academic Impact Student Essay Contest Info For You United Nations Essay Contest (Many Languages, One World) - Sponsored Trip to Boston together with New York -- DEADLINE EXTENDED!

Eligibility
The competition is opened upwards to students eighteen years or older yesteryear competition deadline, together with enrolled inwards a college or academy anywhere inwards the world.

Each submission must go accompanied yesteryear a certification from a competent institutional say-so (Faculty Member or University Representative) attesting that the weather of the competition lead keep been met together with that the entry is the original, unaided piece of occupation of the participant.

Only i submission per pupil volition go accepted.

Eligible groups
Citizens of ALL countries worldwide

Participating Institutions
United Nations (UN), New York; USA
ELS Educational Services, Inc.

Essay topic
An master copy essay discussing global citizenship together with cultural agreement together with the piece of occupation that multilingual mightiness tin play inwards fostering these. The essay should reverberate the student’s personal, academic, cultural together with national context.

ESSAY REQUIREMENTS:
  • You volition demand to demonstrate both written together with verbal competency inwards the linguistic communication of the essay.
  • Essays must go written inwards an official linguistic communication of the United Nations that is non your start linguistic communication or primary linguistic communication of instruction during your primary or secondary education. The official United Nations languages are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian together with Spanish.
  • Essays must go nether 2000 words, excluding citations together with bibliography, if any.
  • Essays must present, inwards a clear together with concise form, arguments for — or against — the importance of multilingualism. In today’s globalized world, at that topographic point is growing emphasis on learning multiple languages. The UN, every bit the world’s premier universal organization, promotes the utilization of half-dozen official languages, together with issues all official documents simultaneously inwards these. Students should examine why the emphasis on linguistic diverseness contributes — or does non — to creating a to a greater extent than harmonious world.
  • Students are encouraged to query the theme using spider web together with non-web materials. When quoting directly, master copy sources must go cited.
Number of awards
Sixty (60) essays volition go selected - x inwards each of the half-dozen languages

Sponsorship duration
Winners participate inwards a 6-7 hateful solar daytime International Youth Forum inwards New York

Scholarship benefits
Winners volition go invited to an all-expense paid trip to Boston together with New York to participate inwards a serial of events during the calendar week of July 15-26, 2017. These events volition include a Global Youth Forum, at which the students volition practice activeness plans addressing selected topics from the Sustainable Development Agenda, together with volition acquaint their views at United Nations Headquarters inwards New York City. These international delegates volition besides lead keep the chance to interact alongside invited international scholars together with tour Boston together with New York City.

ELS volition pay for roundtrip economic scheme cast airfares inwards carriers of its choosing betwixt the airdrome nearest to the Winners’ dwelling identify metropolis together with New York, together with go responsible for the Winners’ travel, room together with meals for the duration of the conference (6-7 days).

Sightseeing together with tourism opportunities volition go arranged yesteryear ELS. No extensions of rest or early on arrivals volition go possible.

Winners are responsible for all documentation relating to their journey, including passports together with visas together with the costs related to these, every bit good every bit appropriate medical insurance for their journeying together with temporary rest inwards the United States. ELS volition render each winning pupil alongside a basic move together with accident insurance policy, for which the premium volition go paid yesteryear ELS.

All Winners help the conference volition go given certificates of participation yesteryear ELS

Method of Application
Write your essay according to the competition rules together with eligibility guidelines. Share your essay alongside the University Faculty Member or Authorized Representative who recommended you lot together with then that s/he tin attest to the fact that you lot lead keep followed the competition rules; together with lead keep him/her consummate together with submit the "Faculty Member/University Administrator Reference Form" inwards back upwards of your participation inwards the contest. Thereafter, s/he volition have an electronic mail from Many Languages, One World requesting confirmation of the reference. Once the "Reference Form" has been received together with confirmed yesteryear Many Languages, One World, you lot (the student) volition have an electronic mail alongside farther information, together with a link where you lot tin consummate your Student Entry Form together with upload your essay to the competition website.

The essay must go submitted/uploaded inwards MS WORD format. Please championship your essay every bit follows: LastName_FirstName-LanguageofEssay (ie, Smith_Jane-Arabic). Do non include a embrace page alongside personal information, every bit the essays volition go evaluated anonymously.

It is of import to see the official website (link to it is below) for consummate information.

DEADLINES:
Essays must go received yesteryear 11:59pm Eastern Standard Time on Th xvi March, 2017 inwards club to qualify. Now extended until 11:59 p.m. EDT on 31, March 2017

PLEASE NOTE:
Do non await until the deadline appointment to submit your essay. Give yourself fourth dimension to ensure that your essay volition go received successfully.

The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organisation created inwards 1945 to promote international cooperation. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, the organisation was created next World War II to preclude around other such conflict. At its founding, the United Nations had 51 fellow member states; at that topographic point are at nowadays 193. The United Nations Headquarters resides inwards international territory inwards New York City, alongside farther principal offices inwards Geneva, Nairobi, together with Vienna.

Application Deadline: 31 March 2017
Open to International Applicants: Yes

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