Currently, more and more often, activating students in the teaching process is becoming an important element of didactic classes at universities. The student needs to acquire new knowledge, skills and competences both on the theoretical and practical levels. Classes in the form of workshops should fit into the professional-academic and interactive model of didactic activities, the deficit of which is still felt in Polish higher education. The aim of the article is to present workshops as a modern form of conducting classes. The practical part was presented on the example of a disarmament conference simulation. The workshop was organized by Polish delegates to the Disarmament Conference in Geneva at the Institute of Organization and Management of the Cybernetics Department on 11 and 18 April 2016.