Registration
Registration for SCSD has been opened
PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING CAREFULLY BEFORE PROCEEDING TO REGISTRATION
Registration Procedure
The registration procedure is the first and most important step towards being able to participate in SCSD. Before you register, please read the following information very carefully.
In order to participate in SCSD, you have to fill out the online registration form (see the link below). After filling out this form we will confirm your registration within one week and if you have been accepted we will send you the payment details. You will only be officially cleared for participation when you have both received this confirmation AND when you have paid the conference fee. The deadline for registration for all participants is the 30th of November 2008. For any further information or questions, please contact the SCSD participant's coordinators Julia Drissen or Sebastiaan Zwaans at scsd@teimun.org
Requirements
In order to be eligible for participation you have to adhere to a number of requirements. Only students studying in The Netherlands will be allowed to participate. We will also allow a small number of students from other countries to participate. In these cases we will give priority to students studying in countries near to The Netherlands and past TEIMUN participants. In any case, if you need a visa to travel to The Netherlands and you don't already have one, you will not be able to participate because we do not have the time to arrange visa's for you. Apart from your place of study, we also have an age requirement. Generally, we do not allow participants older than 30 years to participate. However, in certain cases we do allow participants older than 30 to participate.
Country Choices
Because we will only be simulating one council at this conference, you will only be able to choose the country or major group you wish to represent. Delegations will not be possible at SCSD so you will always represent a country or major group on your own. You get to choose 3 different countries or Major Groups. You need to give at least two choices, so if you can't make a 3rd choice, then you don't have to. If you don't mind what country or major group you will represent you can fill in the first option: '0 I don't mind 0'. In any case, we will try to assign you to your first choice, or if that is not possible, to one of your other choices. However, if necessary, the TEIMUN Board reserves the right to assign another country to a participant than he/she has chosen to represent. We base the assignments on a first come, first serve basis. Lastly, we do not allow participants to represent their own country (their own nationality).
If there is a country that you most definitely do not want to represent due to ethnic, political, religious or other reasons, please mention this in the comments box of the registration form. We will keep this in mind when assigning countries.
Below is a list of all the countries and major groups in the current UNCSD. You can represent any one of these.
| Countries | ||||
| Antiqua and Barbuda | Australia | Bahrain | ||
| Belarus | Belgium | Belize | ||
| Bolivia | Cameroon | Canada | ||
| Cape Verde | Chile | China (People's Republic) | ||
| Costa Rica | Croatia | Czech Republic | ||
| DPR Korea (North) | DR of the Congo | Djibouti | ||
| France | Gambia | Germany | ||
| Guatemala | Guinea | Haiti | ||
| India | Indonesia | IR of Iran | ||
| Israel | Italy | Japan | ||
| Kuwait | Mexico | Monaco | ||
| Netherlands | Peru | Poland | ||
| Republic of Korea (South) | Russian Federation | Saudi Arabia | ||
| Senegal | Serbia | South Africa | ||
| Spain | Sudan | Sweden | ||
| Thailand | Tunisia | United Kingdom | ||
| United Republic of Tanzania | United States of America | Zambia | ||
| Zimbabwe |
| Major Groups | ||||
| Women | Children and Youth | Indigenous People | ||
| NGO's | Local Authorities | Farmers | ||
| Business and Industry | Scientific and Technological Communities | Workers and Trade Unions | ||
Representing a Major Group means representing one of the above sectors of Civil Society. These groups have been introduced to ensure the broad participation of Civil Society in the UNCSD. For more information about major groups, please visit the corresponding page on the UNCSD website.
Position Papers
Once we have assigned you a country or major group, we would like you to write a position paper stating the opinion of your country or major group about the topics. We do this to make sure everyone has a basic level of preparation for the conference. More information about this will follow once you have been assigned your country or major group.
Payment
Once you have registered and we have approved your request to participate we will send you the payment details. Remember that your registration will only be completed once we have received your conference fee. The TEIMUN Foundation will not pay any transfer fees charged to you for transferring the money to us. The conference fee is € 35.
Guarantee
The TEIMUN Foundation guarantees that any information you give us will be handled with the greatest care. At no time will any information be passed on to a third party without your permission unless we are required to by law. If for any reason you wish to have your personal information deleted from our records, feel free to let us know and we will honour your request.
Cancellation
It is possible to cancel your registration until December 1st 2008.
PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU HAVE READ ALL OF THE ABOVE CAREFULLY BEFORE PROCEEDING TO REGISTRATION
