What it does
Embassies, international organizations and diplomats, met in person by the Union’s students.
The Diplomatie pôle brings students face to face with the people and institutions that conduct international relations.
It organizes visits to embassies and institutions, study trips, conferences and meetings with diplomats. Participants learn how today’s diplomatic questions are handled, how international institutions work and what careers in foreign affairs look like, in direct conversation with the people who do the work.
Embassy visits
An embassy visit shows from the inside how a foreign mission works in France. The diplomats who host the delegation present their country’s foreign policy priorities, the bilateral files of the moment and their own careers.
Each visit is arranged with the embassy: places are limited and registration goes through the CINUP agenda.
International organizations and institutions
The pôle also takes students into international organizations and institutions connected to diplomacy. They meet representatives and experts who talk about international cooperation, multilateral negotiation and careers inside these organizations.
Study trips: Geneva, May 8, 2026
On May 8, 2026, during the 2025-2026 mandate, CINUP ran its first diplomatic trip. About thirty students, members, outside participants and members of partner associations, traveled to Geneva.
The delegation was received by the Permanent Mission of France to the United Nations Office at Geneva and by the Permanent Representation of France to the Conference on Disarmament. Deputy Ambassador Claire Thuaudet, Hugo Henry-Ceylan, counselor for political affairs and coordination, and Mathieu Tasse, counselor to the Conference on Disarmament, explained how a multilateral mission works.
The discussions covered the challenges facing multilateralism, international cooperation and the skills a diplomatic career calls for. The trip is told in a video on CINUP’s YouTube channel.
Conferences
The pôle designs conferences with the member associations, master’s student associations and academic partners, each on a defined subject, such as one on small island states. They bring together academics, diplomats and practitioners.
“What is a diplomat in 2026?” took place on May 20, 2026 at HEIP’s Paris campus with the Académie diplomatique et consulaire of the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs. Diplomats spoke about their work, careers at the Quai d’Orsay and soft power.
“Have we become European?” met on May 12, 2026, for Europe Day and after a visit to Europa Experience, with Jessica Larsson, head of the European Commission Representation in France, Laila Wold, head of Europa Experience, Her Excellency Alise Balode, Ambassador of Latvia to France, and Frédéric Allemand, professor of EU law.
“Investigate, engage, advocate: diplomacy by other means” closed the year on June 13, 2026 with Amnesty International France: human rights investigations, advocacy, migration and youth engagement.
The pôle’s branches
Visits
Visits to embassies, international organizations and institutions connected to diplomacy, in Paris and beyond.
Lead: Emma-Louise Girod
Conferences
Conferences and debate evenings on geopolitical topics, on our own or with academic and institutional partners.
Lead: Angélique Chamma
The 2026-2027 cycles
Five themes shape the pôle’s conferences this year. Each cycle gathers its conferences, held and planned, and its dossier in the Journal du CINUP once published.
European security and defense
Europe’s security choices, from NATO to the European Union’s common defense.
Human rights and international justice
Protecting human rights, and the courts that try international crimes.
Multilateralism and the United Nations
How the United Nations works and the cooperation between states it organizes.
AI and international relations
What artificial intelligence changes for diplomacy, security and international law.
The role of NGOs in crises
The work of non-governmental organizations in humanitarian and political crises.
The register of visits
CINUP’s ten most recent visits, with their dossier and their report.
| Date | Institution | City | Report |
|---|---|---|---|
| Embassy of Germany | Paris | 2026 speaking contest: diplomacy in German | |
| Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) | Paris | Report to come | |
| Embassy of Moldova | Paris | Report to come | |
| Embassy of Bosnia and Herzegovina | Paris | Report to come | |
| Académie diplomatique et consulaire | Paris | What is a diplomat in 2026? | |
| Embassy of Ireland | Paris | Report to come | |
| Europa Experience Paris | Paris | Have we become European? | |
| Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (Palais Wilson) | Geneva | Geneva, May 8, 2026: CINUP’s first diplomatic trip | |
| Permanent Mission of France to the United Nations Office at Geneva | Geneva | Geneva, May 8, 2026: CINUP’s first diplomatic trip | |
| Embassy of Paraguay | Paris |
How we select
Seats for visits are limited by the host. They are allocated under these rules, published here as the bureau applies them.
Registration is open to members of the Union’s associations and to CINUP’s external members. An external membership is checked automatically against the members’ register.
When there are more applicants than seats, the seats are shared among the member associations in proportion to how many of their members applied.
While seats remain, every association with at least one applicant receives one.
Applicants who come from no member association form a group of their own, served in the same proportion.
Within each association, the seats go in this order:
- the most regular participation in the mandate’s events, from recorded attendance
- with equal participation, the earliest application
There is no cap per person. The proposal suggests; the bureau weighs the quality of each person’s participation and confirms each decision, in its own name.
Coming up
No event of this pôle has been announced yet. See the calendar
The team
The pôle during the 2026-2027 mandate.
Apolline Magnaval BaudreyHead of the Diplomatie pôle
Visits
Emma-Louise GirodHead of visits
Conferences
Angélique ChammaHead of conferences
Take part with the Diplomatie pôle.
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