Because it all started there. A good handful of students started the idea in with the little means they had at hand. Year by year the idea, the support and the organization became stronger and more stable. Have there been seven students from seven countries? We do not know exactly, as there is no official founding document. We know from oral transmission, that at least seven students from six countries i. Belgium, Sweden, France, Switzerland, Netherlands, and Czechoslovakia were involved, but there might have been others.
Why is it so difficult to get information about the founding years? Because it was the s, just after the devastating World War II. Communication relied on letters, maybe telephone - with long waiting times and high cost. There were no smartphones, Internet or e-mail - not even fax - and the memories of the acting persons get weaker over time. As well, every year the international leadership of the organization moved to another country until International Gathering in New York. Cortney, President of Coty Ltd.
Council of the International Chamber of Commerce. From left to right: Mr. Philip Cortney President of Coty Ltd. It engaged a limited amount of selected trainees, each undergoing unique training and education but in a common field or topic, on a project. Every week they took time off from their firms to meet for lectures and group discussions and at the end of their traineeship period, joint and individual reports were produced. By the end of , 22 SSTPs were successfully carried out in eleven different countries.
Apart from the SSTP, traineeships also came in different forms. Exchanges were divided into two types; the regular short-term traineeships of two to three and a half months and long-term traineeships of more than three and a half months.
Linked Traineeship Programs introduced later were an alternative which arranged a few consecutive traineeships for an individual in different companies of similar industries. It was especially beneficial for multinational companies which had intentions to train students in several of their national operations.
Long-term traineeship programs on the other hand gave advantage to trainees who are at graduate level as well as for companies offering more intensive traineeships. These traineeships of approximately a year often offered the student future employment with the company.
These conferences lead to a growth in awareness and support of global issues. After three years of work, the world conference on ITOMS was held in the International Labour Organization in Turin, Italy from November 17 to 21, , bringing together over delegates from 40 countries. In , work began on a program dubbed Student Traineeship Exchange System STRES for an effective and fair approach to facilitate flow and standardization of information. Exchange numbers have already reached the mark and matching that large group of students to the diverse array of traineeships was stretching the capacity of AIESEC.
They undertook a great task of translating forms into something the computer could understand while enabling exchange controllers to familiarize themselves with the codes and procedures involved.
The Paris International Congress in saw people for the first time, anxiously waiting until the wee hours of the morning for matching by the mainframe computer with punch cards in deciles.
The two LCs communicated directly on studies and common topics. Improvements to exchange quality were continuously implemented throughout the decade. One of the many examples was the motion to increase the minimum allowable length of a traineeship to six weeks at the International Congress IC in Also, a Local Committee Survey conducted in reported that there was an increase in the number of complaints received from foreign trainees which sparked the need for screening procedures for trainees that were known as Review Boards.
Methods of facilitating exchange never ceased to diversify. Industrial Relations Traineeships existed to address social problems and workplace conflicts between workers and. However, these themes still left much to be desired such as a truly international theme with involvement of all committees including those involved in researching the theme.
Nevertheless, awareness across nations was attained through the engagement of students, business people, academia and the community. The change in systems affected exchange whereby more efficient tools facilitated the statistics of exchange numbers, general tracking and smoother matching during congresses.
For example, we were still typing cards to input the data, a very time consuming process which opened up more possibilities for errors. Yet we were very excited and felt we were on the cutting edge of a phenomenon. Amongst the issues to be addressed were the efficiency of delivery time of trainees which were only confirmed once a year during IC. Going on a traineeship was also a challenge for students from countries other than Europe that did not graduate of have summer vacation in June or July.
Geo-political situations such as the Cold War also contributed to a down-swing in exchange growth. As a result, the idea to set up additional matching in October and November was accepted during IC A combination of three factors were identified as a cause for this decline: the introduction of TARGET, the adoption of Global Theme Programs that was taking focus away from exchange and a growth at an overwhelming pace which we were unable to keep up with.
Congress Committee Heads - In his statement, Athos also referred to the fundamental part of AIESEC at that time that mainly involved sending students abroad and organizing interesting topic seminars; which were insufficient in creating an impact in society. These series of seminars were conducted with the objective of educating youth and gathering their opinions on issues related to sustainable development such that they would be able to have an impact on society now through their combined voice, and later in life as leaders.
Management of the bulk of exchange forms with data input into costly mainframe computers through punch cards was becoming obsolete, and a new matching system was needed. Although MATCH was a better system in terms of flexibility, problems that exchange managers began to face became more and more evident. It was too technical and needed a full time programmer.
The matching system was unfair as it did not take into consideration all variables and did not provide equal opportunities in the international arena. There was were great improvements in this personal computer PC based system as it could provide more frequent matching to six times a year and with simple mechanisms. Even though, it was a difficult transition over from MATCH due challenges with training members across the global network on using the system.
At the same time, if we want changes in man then let us tackle instead the issue of Organizational Culture. In doing so, we provide for the ultimate opportunity we can give — that of giving our countries leaders with both knowledge and values.
Unfortunately, this lead to an overall downhill trend for exchange as shown by the decrease in growth and exchange numbers. It was a new approach to achieving ideals of making a better world with the intention of integrating exchange into other activities. Finally in the second. With the return of focus from projects back to exchange, AIESEC lost many of its members and partners who did not see the relevance and impact of exchange.
Views Total views. Actions Shares. No notes for slide. The year is … 2. War has taken away 55 million lives, injured 35 million, … … and 3 million more have disappeared. Only poverty and quarreling between nations remains. But perhaps worse than the physical damage is the hatred and bitterness that the war has produced.
Europe 7. Europe 8. September Stockholm A meeting took place in the Grand Hotel in Stockholm. It was March of The Goal Through building up a student exchange program we want to contribute to tolerance between people. They all sat around a table, half of them speaking English, and the other half speaking French.
But they all understood each other. Though at the beginning none of them knew what practical result would come from the meeting, … Stockholm The organization expanded for the first time with the admission of West Germany as a member. With the International Congress in Rotterdam in , the number of traineeships broke through the thousand mark, with 1.
The organization had made the leap across the Atlantic. The African continent became represented with South African membership in the same year. Meanwhile, the number of traineeships continued to grow steadily. Across the United States we have volunteer student members who support us in our mission to gain more cultural understanding in the world.
These students help facilitate our opportunities by working with companies to create more projects inside the US and by recruiting young people to go abroad on our programs. Go Abroad. We are a Youth Leadership Movement We are passionately driven by one cause, peace and fulfillment of humankind's potential.
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