MODEL ICAO · THE OFFICIAL ICAO SIMULATION IN MONTREAL
You will not be simulating a room.
You will be sitting in it.
Model ICAO is the only United Nations model held inside a UN organization. For five days, university students represent Member States, negotiate the future of international civil aviation, and vote their own resolutions in ICAO's actual Council Chamber.
Special 10th edition - May 3-7, 2027 - ICAO Headquarter Montreal, Canada
10e
edition
225
participants in 2026
30+
4.7/5
States represented since 2016
would recommend it to another student
What you actually do
You are assigned a State
Not the one you would have chosen. You research what it has signed, what it has refused, and what it stands to lose — then you defend that position for five days.
You sit on a committee
Safety, security, environment, economic develpment, legal and Council. Real files, current ones, briefed by professionals from ICAO, the European Commission, ACI World and McGill.
You negotiate, and then you vote
Working papers, draft resolutions, amendments, a crisis nobody prepared for, and a final vote in the Council Chamber on a text you wrote
New for the 10th edition
Ten years in, the 2027 edition goes further than the simulation itself.
Next Generation Aviation Symposium
A dedicated program bringing participants together with the people already working on the questions they are debating — alongside an industry and career forum.
A global alumni network
What has been missing until now: a way to stay connected to the people you met here, and to the sector, after the week ends.
More to be announced
Several elements of the 2027 program will be revealed over the coming months.
The essentials
WHEN
Monday 3 to Friday 7 May 2027
WHERE
ICAO Headquarters, 999 Robert-Bourassa, Montreal
WHO
University and college students, all disciplines.
No aviation background required.
DELEGATIONS
From six to eleven students per state represented,
spread across several committees
LANGUAGES
Plenary and formal sessions in English and French with
simultaneous interpretation. Informal in either language.
COST
CAD 225 per participant, plus CAD 225 per delegation
Held at ICAO, with ICAO
Organized by the Société québécoise de droit international, in cooperation
with the International Civil Aviation Organization.
ORGANIZED BY
IN COOPERATION WITH
STRATEGIC LEADER PARTNER
PREMIER PARTNERS
