In 2026-2027, two final-year classes, one French-speaking and one Dutch-speaking, draft the questions they want to bring to the United Nations. A delegate of the association carries them to New York and puts them to identified interlocutors. A video brings the answers back to the pupils.
In each class, two periods : an introductory course on diplomacy and the United Nations, then a workshop in which pupils collectively draft eight to twelve questions, rank three and formulate the position the association will defend on their behalf. The document leaves the classroom dated, signed by the pupils and countersigned by the teacher.
A delegate of the association travels to New York for the ECOSOC Youth Forum and for a meeting at the Permanent Mission of Belgium to the United Nations, complemented by meetings with the Delegation of the European Union and the UN Youth Office. The classes' questions are carried and put to these identified interlocutors. The whole mission is filmed.
On return, a video prepared with the answers obtained is sent to the pupils. We then come back to each class with the answers, and the association's annual gala, in Brussels at the end of May, presents the questions, the answers and the discussion they opened, with the video. Pupils and their schools are invited.
One entry for each step completed.
The Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie awards the project an À Fonds grant.
Diplomacy for Brussels is selected for Enabel's Youth Incubator programme.
The association is registered with the Crossroads Bank for Enterprises under number 1041.174.244.
Launch weekend of the Youth Incubator programme.
The introductory course is ready in French and Dutch. The team now has eight members from Brussels.
The classes take the course and write their mandate.
The New York mission.
The return video and the closing gala.
We promise that every question will be carried to New York and put to identified interlocutors, and that pupils will receive the answers obtained, or the honest finding that none came. We do not promise that a question will be asked from the Forum floor : access to UN Headquarters depends on accreditations we do not control.
Diplomacy for Brussels was selected for the Youth Incubator programme of Enabel, the Belgian development agency, following a call for projects and a jury session in July 2026.
The project receives an À Fonds project grant from the Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie, awarded in 2026 for activities run with young people in Brussels.
One French-speaking and one Dutch-speaking class take part in 2026-2027. Sessions take place between late November and mid-December 2026.
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