AIESEC is a global, non-political, independent, not-for profit voluntary organization run by students and recent graduates of institutions of higher education. Founded in 1948 by 7 European students, after the end of World War II, AIESEC enables young people to develop leadership through cross-cultural exchanges.
Currently, the AIESEC network includes over 100,000 members in 126+ countries and territories. It is the largest youth-run organization in the world. Since its inception, AIESEC has contributed to the society by giving eminent leaders like Kofi Annan(Former UN Secretary General), Bill Clinton(Former US President), Neil Jannin(Director, McKinsey & Company) etc.
AIESEC entities across the globe strive to achieve “Peace and Fulfilment of Humankind’s Potential”. AIESEC operations include Incoming and Out-going Exchanges. Each year, AIESEC delivers 90,000+ leadership experiences to young individuals by designing projects aligned to the Sustainable Development Goals set by the United Nations.
AIESEC and PDEU
PDEU’s mission is to develop global professionals by providing international educational exchange to the university students and to create visibility of the university in the global educational scenario by collaborating with other reputed institutes and student exchange programs. Seeing the semblance in their vision, AIESEC in Ahmedabad and PDEU collaborated in 2012 to setup an extension at PDEU.
The PDEU extension of AIESEC in Ahmedabad operates in the following areas:
- Outgoing Global Volunteer(OGV)
- Incoming Global Volunteer(IGV)
- Incoming Global Entrepreneur(IGE)
Outgoing Global Volunteer(OGV)-
The Outgoing Global Volunteer (OGV) programme of AIESEC is being promoted by PDEU to facilitate its students with global exposure and leadership experiences. The objective of this programme is to shape students as young and dynamic leaders who are willing to create a difference and to help them enrich their education through international exposure.
Since 2012, 200+ PDEU students have volunteered in 15+ countries under this programme.
Incoming Global Volunteer (IGV)-
Under the Incoming Global Volunteer programme of AIESEC, a 6 week social project named “NAMASTE” is organised every year at PDEU. Till now 5 such projects have been organised wherein 140+ interns from 25+ countries participated. The interns teach at a local school supporting the Sustainable Development Goal 4, Quality Education. NAMASTE successfully engages a lot of volunteers from different schools of PDEU.
Incoming Global Entrepreneur (IGE)-
Seeing the rise in youth’s interest about becoming entrepreneurs, AIESEC in Ahmedabad launched project “INNOVATE”; India’s largest IGE project in 2017. The interns work with the Innovation and Incubation Centre (IIC) at PDEU helping budding start-ups and learning the niceties of entrepreneurship. Till now, 17 interns from 7 different countries have participated in this project.
