DISCOVER
Why participate
What the week teaches you, what it opens, and what it leaves on your résumé.
What you learn that a classroom cannot teach
To defend a position you did not choose. You are assigned a State. You may disagree with everything it stands for. You defend it anyway — and you discover that understanding an opponent’s reasoning is a different skill from having your own.
To negotiate in a room that is not listening yet. Getting a clause into a resolution means finding the delegations whose interests overlap with yours, trading what you can afford to lose, and knowing when to stop pushing.
To work under a rulebook. Points of order, motions, amendments, votes. Stiff on the first morning, automatic by the afternoon — and recognizable for the rest of your career in any institution that runs on procedure.
To function in two languages. Not academically. Under time pressure, in a corridor, with a text to agree on.
INTERNSHIPS
Each year, one participant leaves with an internship at Airbus, and one with a traineeship at the European Commission in Brussels, within the Aviation Policy Unit of DG Mobility and Transport.
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
ACI Global Training offers course vouchers to selected participants — the same courses aviation professionals take.
CONTACTS
Committee directors are professionals from ICAO, the European Commission, ACI World and universities. Member State representatives attend the luncheon and the reception
What it says on a résumé
You negotiated and passed a resolution in the Council Chamber of a United Nations organization. The adopted resolutions are sent to the ICAO General Secretariat. Very few students can write that sentence.
Awards are given at the closing ceremony: best delegate in each committee — nominated by your peers first, then chosen by the chair and director — best position paper, and the Pierre-Cardin Award for best ambassador. Delegations are recognized at three levels.
For faculty advisors. Model ICAO gives your students a week of applied international law, aviation governance and multilateral and multidisciplinary negotiation, assessed by professionals from the sector. Several universities now send a delegation every year.
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Participants in 2026
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States represented since 2016
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