El mundo tiene futuro: jóvenes prometedores
Ana Serrano
“Gracias por mostrar que el futuro está en buenas manos”, así agradecía María Almela (Directora General) a todas las personas que con esfuerzo han formado parte de esta octava edición del Modelo de Naciones Unidas de la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos que hoy llega a su fin. Cuatro días, 96 horas y meses de esfuerzo y preparación que culminan en la Ceremonia de Clausura. URJCmun 2020 fue creado milímetro a milímetro con la aspiración de superar sus límites, ser transversal. Un modelo que ahora más que nunca fuera el origen de grandes ideas que dieran esperanza a un mundo cada vez más complejo, gris y amenazado por movimientos que pretenden derribar las paredes y límites que generaciones pasadas construyeron con una lucha imperiosa.
Tal y como señaló la Secretaria General, Celia Pérez, el mundo está necesitado de gente inconformista y dispuesta a esforzarse por un futuro mejor. Tras cuatro jornadas de trabajo con intensos debates fructíferos en los distintos comités, la sociedad puede estar segura de que esta generación tiene el compromiso y la pasión para hacer grandes proyectos. Perseverancia, energía, valentía y honestidad son los pilares sobre los que se tiene que construir ese nuevo mundo más amable, integrador, justo y humano. Sin embargo, todo trabajo nunca es suficiente y los jóvenes deben seguir observando los vaivenes de la política internacional con una visión crítica y reflexiva. Esta es la única forma de que las ideas surjan, viajen y transformen la sociedad.
URJCmun, un año más, se ha convertido en un ejemplo a seguir tanto en nuestro país como fuera de nuestras fronteras. Su éxito es el afán y el empeño de todas y cada una de las personas que trabajan para que todo esto sea posible: Secretariado General, Chairs, Staff y prensa. Este modelo es fruto de su trabajo y su labor es referencia internacional. Todos ellos forman parte de una misma generación muchas veces ninguneada por los adultos, pero lo que hoy vemos son personas empoderadas, comprometidas y capaces de cumplir sus sueños. Su desobediencia e inconformismo les ha hecho libres y fruto de esa libertad nacen unos seres humanos con una capacidad de crear infinita.
En estos últimos compases las emociones afloran y las lágrimas inundan algunos rostros en la Sala de Conferencias. Algún día las propuestas de las que fueron testigos las paredes de esta Universidad saltarán las barreras y tendrán la posibilidad de iluminar el mundo. Será ese momento el que demuestre que URJCmun tiene razón de ser. Mientras esto se produce, la organización seguirá trabajando para dar la oportunidad de soñar a los jóvenes. Su ilusión y ambición por ofrecer año tras año la mejor versión de sí mismos es el aliento para seguir levantando este proyecto. URJCmun 2021 ya está en camino.
See you soon URJCmun 2021!
Inés Astigarraga | Fotografías: Blanca Martínez
URJCmun 2020 got to its end. The Closing Ceremony has been touching to the fullest. Each of the attendants could feel the energy that had surrounded them for the whole week; we all were able to figure out how much the Model means for the Secretariat, Chairs and every single person that had taken part in the organisation of these astonishing four days.
The ceremony began with the awards to the delegations that have stood up during the week. Special mention and congratulations are in order to the students from Venezuela -as they were given a huge number of awards and oral recognitions. The rest of the foreign delegates -French and Swiss- and, of course, the Spanish students that took part in the model are to be thanked for their motivation and implication in the debates too, as they also showed off their great preparation for this week.
Emotion and pride could briefly define the speeches given by the Secretariat. Emotion because Celia Pérez, María Almela, Pati del Campo and María Luque were totally concerned that those words symbolised the farewell for at least one year to “their family, their home”. Pride is clear. The Head of the Model was, for the first time in its history, fully constituted by women and that made the Secretariat incredibly proud. Things are changing. Women are here to stay.
As a whole, this week has been thrilling. No words left to say just as there have been no tears left to cry during the closure ceremony. It is unbelievable how these events can join so many different people together and give them a reason and a place to feel at home. Whether it has been the first, the second or the fifth edition for us, URJCmun 2020 will be remembered for long. We came here to learn, to know people and to enjoy ourselves and so we have. We are now looking for URJCmun 2021, that is waiting for us. The countdown has already started: 361 days left.
Our sense of togetherness
Paloma Hernández
Through this week, this campus has been witness to a huge display of suits, elegant dresses and uncomfortable shoes. These rooms have heard the most reasonable, outstanding and remarkable statements that could have ever been said. These gossip boxes have stored anonymous feelings, shy declarations and guilty passions, while these carnations might have meant a future love or hidden a secret lover. These mallets have marked the birth of a new generation ready to fight for what they believe on, and these placards have turned out to be the key to success. This campus, these rooms, these gossip boxes and carnations, these mallets and these placards have been home for this week. And, dear Chairs, press and staff teams, members of the Secretariat and fellow delegates: there is no place like home.
María Luque, Director of Communications, claimed that, even if prisons are made of gold and diamonds, they still are prisons. Thank you, URJCmun, for carrying “not one woman less” as your essence, for believing love does not understand of races or sexes and for confirming equality, respect and diversity as our life motors.
Pati del Campo, Director of Staff, has leaded ninety-two perfect smiles through this week, ninety-two smiles that can change the world. Thank you, URJCmun, for protecting the smiles of those seeking asylum, for seeing chemical warfare as the worst nightmare and for shaking, terrified, when words like weapons and terrorism come out of our mouths. María Almela, Director General, invited us all today to leave the Conference Hall with a sense of togetherness, as an answer to how increasingly complex the world is. Thank you, URJCmun, for encouraging international cooperation instead of global confrontation, for insisting on how corruption is threatening our cultural heritage and for proving how money and avarice are burying the most remote corners of the planet without us even noticing.
Celia Pérez, Secretary General, challenged us all to fly, certain we would do it, and do it very high. Thank you, URJCmun, for having faith that plastics have a deadline and marine biodiversity will not suddenly vanish, for being confident about how climate change does have a solution and, above all, for being the solution to climate change. Celia, before handing over the baton to next year’s Secretary General, stated she was in love with the ability URJCmun members have to create. To create revolutionary solutions, unbelievable agreements and touching declarations; but also to create unbreakable friendships, desirable teams and a chosen family that is, above all, forever.
Thank you, URJCmun, for making us all understand that the world is not made up for us, but that it is us, together, who must create our world.
María Luque, Director of Communications, claimed that, even if prisons are made of gold and diamonds, they still are prisons. Thank you, URJCmun, for carrying “not one woman less” as your essence, for believing love does not understand of races or sexes and for confirming equality, respect and diversity as our life motors.
Pati del Campo, Director of Staff, has leaded ninety-two perfect smiles through this week, ninety-two smiles that can change the world. Thank you, URJCmun, for protecting the smiles of those seeking asylum, for seeing chemical warfare as the worst nightmare and for shaking, terrified, when words like weapons and terrorism come out of our mouths. María Almela, Director General, invited us all today to leave the Conference Hall with a sense of togetherness, as an answer to how increasingly complex the world is. Thank you, URJCmun, for encouraging international cooperation instead of global confrontation, for insisting on how corruption is threatening our cultural heritage and for proving how money and avarice are burying the most remote corners of the planet without us even noticing.
Celia Pérez, Secretary General, challenged us all to fly, certain we would do it, and do it very high. Thank you, URJCmun, for having faith that plastics have a deadline and marine biodiversity will not suddenly vanish, for being confident about how climate change does have a solution and, above all, for being the solution to climate change. Celia, before handing over the baton to next year’s Secretary General, stated she was in love with the ability URJCmun members have to create. To create revolutionary solutions, unbelievable agreements and touching declarations; but also to create unbreakable friendships, desirable teams and a chosen family that is, above all, forever.
Thank you, URJCmun, for making us all understand that the world is not made up for us, but that it is us, together, who must create our world.
Hope for a better world
Opening Ceremony - 04.02.2020
Paloma Hernández | Fotografías: Fabiola Carnabal
Hope. Hope is the belief that things can change, that we can make things change. It is the trust on human willingness to fight for a better life, for a better world. Hope is the faith on non-conformism, and the understanding that the comfort zone is a place we should all leave behind as soon as possible. Hope defines URJCmun, because URJCmun is hope.
It is ten in the morning and the Conference Hall starts welcoming its most early rising guests. Between smiles and hugs, as a breath of fresh air, delegates take their places and anxiously await for the Opening Ceremony to begin. It is time for reunions, for meeting again with those “fellow delegates” and all other members of the URJCmun community with whom we shared so many unforgettable moments the past years. And it is also time for the new ones, for those who are taking part in this everlasting experience for the first time, and who are not less excited.
In spite of the obvious enthusiasm and energy delegates at the Conference Hall demonstrate, not a single word is heard once the Chairs enter the room and occupy their seats, showing how URJCmun is, above all, a place for taking the world around us as seriously as it deserves. Laughs and gossips are just the visible side of the model, but there is much more behind.
Gender inequality, xenophobia and abuse of power. Poverty, lack of education and climate change. Discrimination and injustice. Immorality. Confrontation. War. These words echoed the Conference Hall each time the speakers pronounced them, making us all be aware of how significant they really are. From María Almela (Director General) to Celia Pérez (Secretary General), with special mention to Javier Gassó (Vice President for United Nations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs) and Javier Ramos (URJC’s Rector), all today’s presenters made clear that these words will determine the development of this 8th edition of URJCmun.
Confident that the young delegates present at the Conference Hall are the ones who will in the future be able to change the world, and encouraging them to support each other and work together in order to achieve sustainable progress leaving no one behind, Celia and María claimed for respect as the attitude which must reign our minds through this URJCmun edition. And it sure will, as it is the only way to take global cooperation through the right path.
Pistoletazo de salida de URJCmun 2020
Gemma Casado | Fotografías: Fabiola Carnabal
Martes 4 de febrero, diez y cuarenta de la mañana. El salón de actos a rebosar y caras de mucha alegría. Estaba por comenzar la ceremonia que iniciaba los cuatro mejores días del curso y el rector daba la bienvenida a todos los estudiantes de la URJC, así como a los de otras universidades. Esta será su universidad también durante esta experiencia.
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