La Salle-URL Campus Barcelona will host the National Model United Nations International in 2026

Monday, November 4, 2024. La Salle-URL Campus Barcelona is the venue chosen to celebrate the National Model United Nations (NMUN) Internacional, an annual conference in which university students are divided into real committees of the United Nations to analyze and debate real problems and challenges in the world. 

The theme on which the conference will revolve is smart and sustainable cities, an issue closely linked to current societies and La Salle-URL Campus Barcelona in particular, since innovation and an ecological perspective are at the root of Lasallian values. Between November 22 and 29, 2026, more than 400 students from around the world will meet on campus to carry out a series of debates around global challenges. Furthermore, in 2026 Barcelona will be the World Capital of Architecture, a fact that provides added value to the debate on smart and sustainable cities at NMUN 2026.

The National Model United Nations (NMUN) is the largest, most prestigious, diverse and oldest university-level model United Nations in the world. Associated with the United Nations Department of Global Communications since 1982, it annually brings together participants from more than 100 UN member states to address global issues and is an organization recognized for excellent volunteer staff and academic rigor. Experiential learning programs offer students a forum to hone skills in diplomacy, negotiation, critical thinking, engagement, public speaking, writing and research. Three NMUN conferences are held every year: one in New York, one in Washington DC and one international, and the one in 2026 is in Barcelona and specifically at La Salle-URL Campus Barcelona.

The NMUN only holds one conference a year outside the United States, therefore choosing La Salle-URL Campus Barcelona is proof that the campus is a university center of international prestige, where different nationalities and cultures coexist. The debates proposed by the NMUN are an opportunity to work from transdisciplinarity, an attribute that defines La Salle-URL Campus Barcelona, ​​​​and that allows participants to reflect, debate and encourage critical thinking by working transversally on global challenges to positively impact in the environment and help it develop.

Now, the next steps will take the universities participating in the conferences in New York, Washington and, as for the international ones, before Barcelona the hosting place will be the Galapagos Islands (Ecuador) and Banff (Canada). There is a long road ahead but the confirmation of La Salle-URL Campus Barcelona as the venue for NMUN International 2026 reinforces the internationality, diversity, university commitment and social responsibility of the campus in the mission of making a more just and sustainable world.