AIESEC Zurich

Zurich, Switzerland
This project serves as a communication tool and forum for current issues about the operational work of AIESEC Zurich
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    What is AIESEC?

    AIESEC, the world's largest student organization, is the international platform for young people to discover and develop their potential so as to have a positive impact on society.
    In addition to providing over 6,500 leadership positions and delivering over 350 conferences to our membership of over 28,000 students, AIESEC also runs an exchange program that enables over 4,400 students and recent graduates the opportunity to live and work in another country.

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    Executive Board 08/09 Local Committee Meeting I am an AIESECer Campaign - Daniel Troxler (Zurich)

    We need your inputs!

    As AIESEC is a student driven non profit organization and the average AIESECer is active for about 2 years within the organization, student marketing and member recruiting is an essential part of our work. So far, we tried to attract the students at the university with mostly "classical" means like flyering and informations desks.

    As we got feedback, flyering seems not to be appreciated and we would like to shift our activites more into the world wide web. If you think, you can give us your valuable inputs and if you are up to a virtual brainstorming, we would be more than happy to discuss with us in the talk section "Student Marketing / Member Recruitment"!

    I'm looking forward to an interesting discussion! If you have further questions, don't hesitate to contact me.

    Philipp

    Blog AIESEC Zurich

    Summer-BBQ
    05/30/2010 04:11pm

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    SACC-Event
    05/18/2010 10:16pm

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    Amazing Kick-Off 2010!
    05/18/2010 10:07pm

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    Greetings from Taiwan!
    04/01/2010 03:11pm

    Greetings from Taiwan!To give you an insight into my AIESEC experience, let me first give a short introduction for those who have no idea where and what Taiwan is:) Its an island next to China, where most of the people are chinese immigrants of the x generation. But there are also indigenous people who mainly live in the mountainous area of Taiwan. That's where I’m right now! I’m living in a township in the southern part of their country, which consists of four little villages of each around 100-200 people and is quite far away from the city. Unfortunately, there has been a serious typhoon last year and destroyed many of there houses, streets and their beautiful landscape, which attracted a lot of visitors before.The NGO I work at is therefore dedicated to help the people in different ways, by providing (financial or material) support, providing some work opportunities, improving the children’s education and physical/psychological condition. So far, it has been a quite interesting experience to live here and get to know the people and their lifestyle in the countryside. The villages here a very small, so within 10 minutes walking you have basically seen it. You cannot just go around the corner and buy some things you need or anything other than just some snacks and drinks at some little store. It takes at least 1 hour by car and through bumpy roads to the next small town and more than 2 hours to the city, consequently you don’t spend a lot of money:). If you are interested in more details, see you around back in Switzerland!- by Catherine Trüb

    The EB 2010/11 started its term
    03/08/2010 10:41pm

    Right before officially starting the term, the EB 2010/11 of LC Zurich was completed by Sereina Pfister.Read the portrait of our new VP External Relations as follows:Hi, my name is Sereina Pfister and I am your new VP ER. Ok, not so fast: here some facts first: I am 21 , one of 4 children and I am studying political sciences at the University of Zurich. I spent most of my childhood abroad due to my father's job with Swissair. During those 12 years abroad, I was in the French school and only changed to Swiss gymnasium when we got back to Switzerland. After school, I tried one year of Law, but found out pretty quickly that it wasn't at all my way to be. So I choose to follow my elder brother and study political sciences. He was the one who introduced my to @. At first I wasn't very interested, but I found out soon enough that it was exactly what I needed and what I missed at University. To be part of a world where young people come together to talk, have fun and learn, through workshops, internships and much more was maybe secretly what I wanted University to be. I joined @ in october 09. I never thought about applying for the position of VP ER. After the first election, when the position was still vacant, Anne-Sophie talked to me and forced me into the idea. :D Now that I have been elected, I believe it to be a kind of fate thing. It had to be this way. I am very exited about my new position. Communication and selling are two things I love to do. I will have to opportunity to invest a lot of time in new ideas and new projects. In the first place, my job will be to put some structure and some motivation into the ER-Team, as there were some problems in the last term. After that, the job will be to raise Interships (TN's), to find sponsors and to keep up the communication with the outer world, which would be everything that isn't @. I am looking forward to working with all of you and I hope that we will achieve our goals together. Sereina Pfister We wish Sereina and the whole new EB a successful term! Corina Binz More pictures from the General Assembly...