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About AIESEC
Young, professional, progressive, innovative and global. AIESEC (pronounced eye-sec) is
the world's largest student-managed, non-profit educational organisation.
Since our creation in 1948, we have been dedicated to helping young people around the
globe develop themselves and their countries. Our focus is on developing individuals who
can impact on society; we do this by involving people in unique exchange programmes and
related projects.
The process of exchanging young people around the world is the core of what we do - we
believe that the best way to develop future leadership is to let people experience the
challenges of culture, society, and management for themselves. Underlying everything we do
is a drive to make a positive contribution to society.
Today, with more than 50,000 members, most of whom are undergraduates who voluntarily
give their service while attending university, we are active in 730 academic institutions
in 87 countries.
We enjoy working partnerships with a wide variety of companies, as well as with
non-government and government organisations.
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Vision
Peace and fulfilment of humankinds
potential.
Purpose
To contribute to the development of our
countries and their people with an overriding commitment to international understanding
and co-operation.
Values
Belief in mutual respect for cultures
and equality of people.
Nature
AIESEC is an international,
non-political, non-profit, student-run, independent, educational association. It is
comprised of students and recent graduates of institutions of higher education who are
interested in economics and management. AIESEC does not discriminate on the basis of race,
colour, sex, creed, religion, national or ethnic origin.
The core of AIESEC
At International Congress 1997, AIESEC agreed on a set of principles that improve the
focus and operations of our local activities. They are called the Core of AIESEC and, when
used to focus activity, they create a fully unified global organisation where better
results come from increased international co-operation.
To focus all our energy on developing individuals for an impact on society means that
AIESEC activities will create opportunities and situations for people to learn from. These
experiences will allow people to actively contribute to our communities, now and for the
future.
The full exchange process is a life-long learning process where experiences come from an
involvement with AIESEC activity. Traineeship exchange is a fundamental part of the
exchange process because it creates a very powerful opportunity for learning - for
trainees, and the people they come in contact with.
When creating opportunities for students of higher education (university and other
tertiary institutions) to learn, we are focusing on the people who are most likely to have
a future impact on society. These are the people who will eventually lead future
corporate, government, and non-government organisations.
Global Results
AIESEC uses the global results to help us understand some of the leadership
characteristics youth need to develop. They represent some skills, values and attitudes
that successful activity will develop in people. The global results are:
Focus Areas
We can use the focus areas to help us
understand the different issues AIESEC is focused on globally. They represent areas that
AIESEC believes are most relevant for societal change.
For activity development, AIESEC's focus areas can be used to help link activity into
the global network. If an activities addresses issues within our focus areas they will
help achieve the global results, and there will be more opportunities for support and
international co-operation (because other similar AIESEC activities will exist). The focus
areas are:
Corporate Social Responsibility
Cultural understanding
Entrepreneurship
Higher Education and Learning
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