About the Summit
Prague Student Summit is a prestigious educational project for more than 300 high-school and university students from all over the Czech Republic. The students, participating in the simulation of the United Nations, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Union, experience diplomatic negotiations on a wide range of global issues and gain real insight into the world of international affairs. Along with their peers, they are expected to defend the interests of more than a hundred nations of the international community.
Methods and Objectives
The project is organized by a team of more than fifty volunteers, mostly university students. The crucial objective of the project is to increase awareness among young people about international as well as domestic affairs. The participants enhance their general knowledge as well as in-depth understanding of specific issues, improve rhetoric and argumentation skills, develop the ability to achieve compromise and learn how to work with relevant information sources.
Thanks to its unconventional methods, the Prague Student Summit emphasises elements that are still at large neglected by the Czech education system, be it personality development or public presentation skills. Besides the simulated negotiations in the three Models, the participants are given the opportunity to discuss their views with distinguished guests from the fields of politics, diplomacy, academia and business.
Real experience of the diplomatic world
Prague Student Summit is unique project even within the European context. In the same time, it connects more than 300 high school and university students in the three interdependent simulations of important international bodies. Its negotiations are conducted in two languages. Nonetheless, the most important difference lies in the fact that the final conference, the actual Summit, is preceded by a half year of preparatory programme consisting of five workshops. This enables us to fulfil the key aspect of the scheme – that is education.
