Thirty staff and students from UNU-MERIT spent five days of the carnival break exploring Geneva; learning about the institutions based there and networking with staff and alumni. The trip itself was an impressive feat of organisation, involving 10 committee members from our Master of Science in Public Policy and Human Development (MPP), chaired by DEMOS Vice President Antoine Lemonnier, as well as various UNU staff, and dozens of contacts at the international organisations and centres we visited...