View the Many Languages, One World Official Video!

October 23, 2015

Watch the 2015 Many Languages, One World Official video! Visit ManyLanguagesOneWorld.ELS.edu  to view the exciting moments of the 2015 Many Languages, One World Global Youth Forum in New York City.

On July 24, 2015 seventy remarkable students from around the world gathered at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, New York to share their perspective on the post-2015 global development agenda. These seventy students were selected based on essays they submitted in April of this year.

The Many Languages, One World contest challenged college and university students from around the globe to write an essay examining the post-2015 global development agenda of the United Nations. The essay were submitted in one of the six official United Nations languages, which was not the student’s first-language, or the principal language of instruction in their primary or secondary education. In many cases, students submitted essays in their third or fourth language. More than 3,500 people from 130 countries took part in the initial phase of the contest. The official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.

Students who participated in the contest are pursuing undergraduate and graduate degrees, as well as Doctoral candidates. Winners attend prestigious international universities such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA), Yonsei University (South Korea), and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (France). Their fields of study include art, human rights, medicine, engineering, law, business management, communications, international relations, and linguistics. 2015 marks the second year of the Many Languages, One World Essay Contest and Global Youth Forum. The contest has been covered by many international media outlets and is prominent on social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter with the hashtag #MLOW15.

For more information please visit ManyLanguagesOneWorld.ELS.edu.