SUNYMEU 2023 Awards
Awards with each recipients names will be mailed to the address listed on the SUNYMEU Registration Form. Mailings will begin the week of 4/17/23.
His Excellency Ambassador Olof Skoog, Head of the European Union Delegation to the United Nations in New York
SUNYMEU 2023 Group Photo (SUNY Global Center, NYC - April 1, 2023)
SUNYMEU is open to all undergraduate and graduate students from anywhere in the world. As SUNYMEU is student-run and student-directed, faculty advisors are not required to accompany college delegations. A country delegation is comprised of four students (head of government, foreign minister, finance minister, permanent representative).
If your campus does not have four students to participate and in consultation with all students involved, we place students from other campuses on your delegation or place you on an existing delegation. See FAQs for more information about forming a delegation, registration fee, etc.
Questions? You can email us at sunymeu@buffalostate.edu
SUNYMEU is managed on a two-year basis by a SUNY campus. SUNYMEU is hosted by a SUNY campus during even years and at the SUNY Global Center during odd years.
The IEUSS Board awarded the directorship of SUNYMEU 2022 & 2023 to SUNY Buffalo State. (SUNYMEU 2022 took place in Buffalo, New York on the campus of SUNY Buffalo State.) SUNYMEU directors must be SUNY employees (see IEUSS By-laws).
SUNYMEU is a program sponsored by the Institute for European Union Studies at SUNY (IEUSS), but the simulation itself is designed as a student-run and student-directed activity - from writing and selecting the agenda items to chairing the meetings, agreeing the Conclusions, and selecting awardees. Indeed, once SUNYMEU formally opens on Thursday, March 30, 2023, the students "take the reins," while faculty are on hand for advice (if requested) and to serve as expert witnesses. That SUNYMEU is student-run, and student directed points to the reason why the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union (GS) and the European Commission delegations are so crucial to SUNYMEU. The GS organize the agenda items prior to the simulation and a GS member is assigned to each functional meeting to support the member states in their work. The GS is careful to stay neutral and not "side" with a particular member state. The Commission, also represented at each functional meeting, represents the European Union and the integration project. While neither the Commission nor the GS votes, these bodies are crucial to the functioning of the EU, and so to, of SUNYMEU.
Dr. Atta Ceesay
SUNYMEU Faculty Co-Director
Chair & Associate Professor, Director of the MPA Program, SUNY Buffalo State - Department of Political Science & Public Administration
Ms. Tirzah Peters
SUNYMEU Graduate Student Co-Director
(SUNY Buffalo State - MPA, 2023)
sunymeu@buffalostate.edu
Dr. Laurie Buonanno
SUNYMEU Faculty Co-Director
IEUSS Director; Professor, SUNY Buffalo State - Department of Political Science & Public Administration
Mr. Derek Smith
SUNYMEU Graduate Student Co-Director
(SUNY Buffalo State - MPA, 2024)
sunymeu@buffalostate.edu
Dr. Greg Rabb
SUNYMEU Faculty Co-Director
IEUSS Board Chair; Lecturer, SUNY Buffalo State - Department of Political Science & Public Administration; Emeritus Professor, SUNY Jamestown Community College
Ms. Cassandra Brown
SUNYMEU Undergraduate Student Director
(SUNY Buffalo State - BA Political Science, 2023)
