The ELS and United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) “Many Languages, One World Essay Contest and Global Youth Forum”
broadcasted live on Friday, 27 June 2014 from 10am until approximately 1:15pm EDT (3pm to 6:15pm GMT). See the essay competition winners present at the UN General Assembly:
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Winners of multilingual essay contest to meet at UN Headquarters on 27 June 2014
Sixty college and university students from 28 countries have been invited to attend a youth forum at UN Headquarters on 27 June 2014
to discuss the role of multilingualism in a globalized world. They are
winners
of an international essay contest, organized by ELS Educational
Services, Inc. and the United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) of the UN
Department of Public Information.
The contest,
Many Languages One World, invited university and college students
to write an essay on global citizenship in one of the six official UN
languages, which must not be their mother-tongue, or the medium of
instruction of their education. More than 4,000
people from 128 countries took part in some phase of the contest. The
official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English,
French, Russian and Spanish.
The
people who participated in the contest ranged from college freshmen to
Doctoral candidates, and their fields of study ran the academic gamut,
including all
of the arts and 
sciences,
medicine, pharmacy and dentistry, engineering, law, business,
finance and management, agriculture, architecture, communications and
linguistics and translation. A large number of publications across the
globe picked up this story, and the social media platforms, especially
Facebook and Twitter, provided strong support.
At the invitation of
the ELS Educational Services Inc., ten winners from each language group
will travel to New York in June, and participate in a 5 day Global Youth
Forum in conjunction with Adelphi University.
They will work in their language teams to create action plans around
principles from the United Nations Academic Impact.
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