Learning paths

The Academy is built as a progression rather than a shelf of unrelated courses. Most people arrive at one point on it and move along it over several years.

## Where it starts

The UCP Online Learning Programme, a thirty-week academic year in three modules, taken in a cohort of eight to twelve and meeting live every week. Global issues and Model United Nations first, then the scientific thinking behind the policy questions, then the communication that makes either of them count in a room.

Typically taken from around age twelve.

## Where it goes next

The Washington DC Summer Programme. Fourteen days in residence, in one of three tracks — Model United Nations, STEAM, or a local community project — with field study at the United Nations Headquarters in New York and across Washington DC.

Delegates who arrive having done the online year already know the method, the people and the standard.

## Taking responsibility

Returning delegates are invited into Senior Delegate and Committee Chair. Chairing a committee is a different skill from debating in one, and it is where most people first find out they can hold a room.

## Working the conference

University-age alumni return in a professional capacity through the Conference Professional Programme, running operations, media, protocol or committee coordination, and earn a career-level credential.

## Teaching it

Graduates who want to keep the work going qualify through Alumni Facilitator Certification to deliver the online programme to the next cohort in their own city.

## Taking one piece on its own

None of this is compulsory. Every subject course in the catalogue — climate governance, AI ethics, refugee rights, clean energy, public health, food security, public speaking, negotiation, cross-cultural communication — stands on its own and can be taken without joining a cohort.