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2011-11-29

American teams: Biggest competitor is world hunger

Modest American student teams from New York University and Yale University refuse to name their biggest competitors after arriving Monday to begin the annual Copenhagen Competition at the Faculty of Law. The groups discussed tactics over their welcoming dinner, but were unwilling to rule out that all teams had presented impressive proposals for the competition.

The competition is a chance for students selected from top international universities to negotiate ways to overcome barriers, this year on global Access to Food. Teams will work towards finding solutions for eradicating world hunger over three days and four rounds, beginning Tuesday 29 November.

»It's hard to see this as a competition when we're all working towards the same goal,« explains Elena Lobo of New York's NYU. 

Read more in the article from the UniversityPost