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AIESEC (pronounced "eye-sek", originally an acronym for Association Internationale des Étudiants en Sciences Économiques et Commerciales') is an international platform for young people to explore and develop their potential. It is a non-profit, non-political organization run by students and recent graduates. Its members are interested in world issues, leadership and management. Its international office is in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The AIESEC network as of June 2009 includes 35,000 students in 107 countries and territories. It is present in over 1700 universities across the globe, and sends students on 5500 international exchanges yearly.[1]

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[edit] History

The idea behind AIESEC started in the 1930s, when representatives from schools across Europe exchanged information about various programs and schools that specialized in business and economics. Students were carrying out internships in other countries, but mostly on their own initiative, and it all came to a standstill with the onslaught of World War II.[2] In 1944, though, the neutral Scandinavian countries were still exchanging: in Stockholm, Bertil Hedberg (official at the Stockholm School of Economics) and the two students Jaroslav Zich of Czechoslovakia and Stanislas Callens of Belgium founded “AIESE”, the predecessor of AIESEC.[2]

Informal activity “to help develop ‘friendly relations’ between member countries” began in 1946, and AIESEC was officially founded in 1948. At the time, the mission was “to expand the understanding of a nation by expanding the understanding of the individuals, changing the world one person at a time.”[2] In 1949, 89 students participated in the so-called “Stockholm Congress”, the first of many “Exchange Programs”.[3] Soon, AIESEC became popular: by the end of 1960, 2467 exchanges were reported, and 4232 by the end of 1970. A landmark in AIESEC history was the “International Theme Programme” that officially established all international, regional, and local seminars on specific topics, which in time grew to be a guideline for future AIESEC generations.[3] In the following decades, debated topics were International Trade, Management Education, Sustainable development, Entrepreneurship and Corporate Responsibility,[3] and in the 1990s, intranets called Insight were established to facilitate networking.[3]

[edit] AIESEC Today

AIESEC identifies itself as “the international platform for young people to explore and develop their leadership potential." [4] It annually offers “7,700 leadership positions and delivers over 470 conferences to [its] membership of over 35,000 students". AIESEC also runs an international exchange program that enables over 5550 students and recent graduates the opportunity to live and intern in another country.”[4] It is one of the world's largest student-run organizations in the world.

2008 marked the 60th anniversary of AIESEC's founding. Celebrations occurred in London (January 2008), Tokyo (March 2008), Budapest (May 2008), Brussels (June 2008), Brazil (August 2008), Stockholm (October 2008), and the United States (December 2008).

[edit] Structure

Each country (sometimes group of countries, or territories within a country) with an AIESEC presence has its own national Member Committee (MC), which coordinates activities for that area. Members also belong to a Local Committee (LC) for each university or college.

[edit] AIESEC Approach

As stated on its website, AIESEC strives for “positive social change” by using the “AIESEC Way”.[5] The AIESEC Way is described as a way of reaching “Peace and fulfilment of humankind’s potential.”[5] According to AIESEC, there are six main values, namely Activating Leadership, Demonstrating Integrity, Living Diversity, Enjoying Participation, Striving for Excellence and Acting Sustainably.[5]

On an individual level, AIESEC enables students to live the AIESEC Experience by taking on leadership opportunities, gaining business skills, and connecting to a global network of students by attending international conferences and interning abroad. There are five key principles, namely Taking an Active Role (main goal: proactive behaviour), Developing Self-Awareness and Personal Vision (assuming responsibility), Increasing Capacity (learning theory and applying it in practice), Building a Network (networking) and Challenging Worldview (holistic world view).[6]

[edit] Partners

AIESEC holds several high-profile partnerships, among them with companies like Alcatel, ABN AMRO, Cadbury Schweppes, DHL, Electrolux, InBev, PwC, Enterprise Asia, HP, Microsoft and UBS. These partnerships are mainly related to presence of these partners at AIESEC's forums, and provision of talent from AIESEC to these partners. [7]

[edit] AIESEC Abbreviations

AIESEC community uses its own reach jargon. The following is the list of the most common AIESEC abbreviations[8]:

  • @ — International symbol for AIESEC
  • LC — Local Committee
  • LCP — Local Committee President
  • LCM — Local Committee Meeting
  • LF - Leadership Forum
  • NLC - New Leaders Conference (www.newleaders.org.yu)
  • EB — Executive Board (president and vice-presidents)
  • VP (or LCVP) — Vice President. They are: OGX, CR, TM, Fin, COMM and AR (updated EB VPs circa 2008).
  • OGX (or Student Relations) — OutGoing eXchange (title of a responsibility field): marketing, getting new members, organizing Review Boards and teaching about internship processes
  • ICX (or Corporate Relations) — InComing eXchange: contacting companies, getting sponsors, selling AIESEC and earning internships. ICX is a former portfolio which merged with Corporate Development. Dealing with the intern and the company used to be done by these two separate portfolios. Now, CR takes care of both incoming interns and their respective employers to ensure their satisfaction.
  • TM — Talent Manager: interviewing new members, checking their progress in @XP, solving problems and issues, reallocating members to destined positions, intern servicing.
  • Fin (sometimes F)— Finance: keeping track of committee's profits and losses, reallocation of financial resources, buying equipment for the betterment of LC's life
  • ER — External Relations (former portfolio which branched out to AR and COMM)
  • AR — Alumni Relations: responsible for keeping track of AIESEC Alumni members, re-engaging them through events, getting sponsorships and contacting companies through them.
  • COMM (sometimes COM)- Communication: responsible for AIESEC marketing, exposure, branding, relationships with the university, media coverage and updating information on the AIESEC websites.
  • PM — Project Manager
  • IS — Information Systems or Information Management — people responsible for IT issues
  • Leadership Team — EB, project managers and other AIESEC leaders in the LC (Support, IS, etc.)
  • OC — Organizing Committee — group that is organizing a certain event (for example a conference)
  • OCP — Organizing Committee President
  • OCM — Organizing Committee Meeting
  • LDS — Leadership Development Seminar
  • Faci — Facilitator of the certain event, they give lectures, seminars and speeches
  • MC — Member Committee, national AIESEC leading group
  • MCP — Member Committee President
  • MCVP — Vice President of Member Committee
  • AI — AIESEC International, the highest administrative body of AIESEC
  • PAI — President of the AI
  • NST - National Support Team
  • Matching — Procedure where placements and exchanges are brought together (it's done through MyAIESEC.net)
  • EP — Exchange Participant, person who will be an intern and will go on an exchange
  • Trainee — is what the Exchange Participant (EP) is called when they are in the country where they are doing their internship.
  • PBoX — Project Based on eXchange
  • CEED — Cultural Envoy for Exchange Development. This is an AIESEC exchange program designed to help AIESEC grow.
  • CEEDer — is a person on a CEED. They either help AIESEC of another country or learn from them.
  • BCP — Best Case Practise
  • KPI — Key Performance Indicator. This is a tracker used by TM (Talent Management) to see how their LC (Local Committee) is performing.
  • Exchange types — there are four exchange types in AIESEC:
    • MT - Management Traineeship (economic and finance issues)
    • DT - Development Traineeship (social and environmental issues)
    • TT - Technical Traineeship (technology and engineering issues)
    • ET - Education Traineeship (teaching and coaching issues)
  • Newies — New AIESEC members
  • @XP or AIESEC XP — AIESEC eXPerience (or just XP), model that describes what kind of experiences our members can gain during their AIESEC time

[edit] Alumni

According to the AIESEC Alumni website, several prominent global citizens have been involved with the organization[9]. They include:

Government Heads of State


Civil Engineers


Business Leaders


Others[citation needed]

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ "AIESEC". AIESEC web site. 2009-04. http://www.aiesec.org/AI. Retrieved on 2009-04-06. 
  2. ^ a b c Kern, Beth (2003-10-02). "AIESEC helps interns make adjustments". University Chronicle. http://media.www.universitychronicle.com/media/storage/paper231/news/2003/10/02/Diversions/Aiesec.Helps.Interns.Make.Adjustments-512353.shtml. Retrieved on 2008-02-11. 
  3. ^ a b c d "The AIESEC History". AIESEC web site. http://www.aiesec.org/cms/aiesec/AI/About/history/index.html. Retrieved on 2008-02-11.  The AIESEC History
  4. ^ a b "Welcome to AIESEC". AIESEC web site. http://www.aiesec.org/AI. Retrieved on 2008-02-11. 
  5. ^ a b c "The AIESEC Way". AIESEC web site. http://www.aiesec.org/cms/aiesec/AI/About/theaiesecway/index.html. Retrieved on 2008-02-11. 
  6. ^ "The AIESEC Experience". AIESEC web site. http://www.aiesec.org/cms/aiesec/AI/About/experience. Retrieved on 2008-02-11. 
  7. ^ "Global Development Group". AIESEC web site. http://www.aiesec.org/cms/aiesec/AI/Organisations/partners/development_group. Retrieved on 2008-02-11. 
  8. ^ AIESEC Lund - Glossary
  9. ^ "Famous Alumni". AIESEC Alumni International. http://www.aiesec-alumni.org/Board_%26_Famous_Alumni.html. Retrieved on 2009-02-27. 

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