Following the success of MockMUN in June, FerMUN was back in action on Wednesday 18 September. This first session brought a breath of fresh air with the arrival of Madame Ruez, the new MUN Director, and discussions on the challenges facing the next conference, to be held from Tuesday 7 to Friday 10 January 2025.
On Wednesday 18 September 2024, FerMUN made its comeback with an eagerly awaited first meeting. After a pre-briefing for board members and presidents, Madame Baudry opened the official meeting by introducing Madame Ruez, the new MUN Director. Ms Ruez is a maths teacher at the Ferney site, but she is no stranger to the MUN world. As a former MUN director, she has already founded a MUN club at the École Française de Dakar in Senegal, and led it to take part in FerMUN.
In an enthusiastic speech, she recalled her passion and commitment for MUN, which was one of her main motivations for returning to teaching at the lycée, before handing the floor over to Adrienne Husny, the Secretary General of FerMUN 2025. The SG outlined the challenges of the forthcoming conference, while detailing the organisation she is coordinating alongside her two deputy general secretaries, Jasmine Benlechhab and Waliya Said Abasse.
The meeting then continued with the presentation of the different roles by the members of the board, each explaining the crucial function of their team in ensuring the smooth running of the conference. The translation team, the interpreting team and the press team, in particular, explained to the new members the tasks and responsibilities they would have at the conference.
Finally, each pair of chairs introduced their respective committees, addressing the official issues that will be debated at FerMUN 2025. These issues, which are available on the official fermun.org website, cover a wide range of subjects which are all equally fascinating to discover.
This first meeting reinforced the students’ motivation to make FerMUN 2025 another success. With new challenges to meet and teams that are more motivated than ever, this autumn is shaping up a promising conference!