Prominent former active members of UNYSA-Austria or its predecessor the "Academic Union for Foreign Affairs" (AVA) are e.g. Ewald Nowotny.
At the conference, various UN committees such as the Security Council, the Human Rights Council (HRC), the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), or the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are simulated very authentically, using the actual rules of procedure of the UN.
The Global View Magazine is a project, published by UNYSA-Austria and is a discussion platform for everyone interested in international relations, foreign policy and the United Nations.
It is published four times a year and contains articles in German and English language, written by experts as well as by young graduates and students.
Since then debate clubs have been founded in several Austrian cities, and the Afa Debattierclub in Vienna is one of the two largest in the country (together with Debattierklub Wien.)