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我們在交換方面最顯著的成就 ------ ITEP
對於AIESEC -----這樣一個國際性的組織來說, 要達成宗旨最佳的方法
自然是做國際性的交換, 於是國際研習生交換計劃 (ITEP)便隨著AIESEC
誕生而誕生了。只要是身為AIESEC的會員國就一定要run ITEP, 希望由
ITEP促進不同國家及文化的青年學生的交流和互動, 而增加對彼此文化
及社會環境的認識, 同時協助學生從研習工作中獲得實際經驗與知識並
增進學生及企業間的交流, 培養未來的領導人才。
To say that AIESEC's most powerful tool is the process of exchange,
is to say that it is AIESEC's key strength. It is how we stimulate leadership
development in young people, while also contributing to our communities.
When we talk about exchange, we talk about a life-long change
process that AIESEC helps facilitate. Exchange is not simply a process
of bringing one university student or graduate from one country
to another and placing them in a job. It includes an involvement
with different community projects and AIESEC activities.
The physical traineeship exchange is a fundamental part of the
exchange process because it is a time in your life where your values,
skills and attitudes are challenged in a completely different environment.
It is a life-changing experience.
When AIESEC members and other students come in contact with a
trainee, or are involved in organising traineeship exchanges, this
also creates a powerful opportunity to learn. Interaction with
new situations and perspectives is a challenging way to learn.
AIESEC's activities exist to ensure AIESEC's mission is achieved,
that people have the opportunity to develop certain characteristics
and global results, and that, in the process, we are developing our
local communities.
We are not doing eXchange for eXchange.
Our objective is to CHANGE people.
The Exchange process: Role Clarification
Changing individuals through experience based learning
The Change Process
AIESEC contributes to society through the development of young people to become proactive, concerned individuals who want to make a difference with their lives. AIESEC has identified 5 global results in terms of developing people. By developing individuals with such characteristics we will be contributing to the long term development of our societies.
The process of change is based on getting people to realise that they need to change: From apathetic youth to proactive individuals. From this point people need to be given the opportunities to learn and develop, with the final point being the application of that learning for the benefit of our society.
Experience Based Learning
AIESEC believes in experience based learning as a key tool to develop people to be active participants of our societies. We can tell people, and we can show them, but by giving them the chance to experience it, and to learn by doing are we truly effecting change.
Exchange - The Most Powerful Tool for Change
Exchange is a key tool of AIESEC to secure the progress we are looking for. Issues we can only talk about in the classrooms are experienced firsthand through exchange. For exchange to be a powerful tool it needs to be linked to more than experiencing a different culture. It needs to be linked to our global results, and provide experiences that can support them. I.e. work with an entrepreneur to give insight into entrepreneurship, or community involvement to secure a growing sense of social responsibility.
Exchange Process Developed for Maximum Impact on Society
In this document we are presenting the exchange process, which outlines how to ensure the maximum impact on society. The exchange process focuses on the individual. However, this does not mean that we cannot impact the community as well. In fact the two cannot be separated, but we must focus on the area where we can have the greatest impact: Changing individuals through experience based learning.
Tachi Morihara: The story of how AIESEC changed my life.
I used to be a very career minded student. I am not saying that I am not career-minded anymore, but I have come to realise so many opportunities that I was never aware of previously, and I can honestly say that I have AIESEC to thank for that. Let me tell you my story.
PREPARATION
I studied at Waseda University in Tokyo.. My ambition was to work for one of the big Japanese companies: Bank of Tokyo, Mitsubishi Corporation (that would挙e been my dream come true), or Toyota Motors. I was becoming stressed in school because it is getting more and more difficult to be sure of a job in one of the giants. One day I walked past an add for a seminar: 遷aking a life, making a living". It sounded interesting, so I went along. It was an amazing experience. It was all about
entrepreneurship. The speakers - who were anything from 24-56 years old - shared their experience of starting a business. Their message was one of the need for innovation, the ability to take risk, the ability to make your own choices, and of making your dreams come true while making a living. It sounded incredible. It was possible for them to do. But for me?
At the end of the seminar the AIESEC people said that this seminar was only the first step in their goal of developing youth to be more entrepreneurial. The second step was giving us the chance to go out and experience this for ourselves. I was dumbfounded! 10 students would be selected to go on a traineeship to another country to work with small scale enterprises and young entrepreneurs who would act as our mentors, and whom we would help with their business development. It was part of an
international programme giving student all over the world this opportunity.
They had a very strict selection process. Not only did I have to go for an English test, I also had to write up a business plan for the kind of business I would like to start (it was very difficult because I have never really thought about starting my own business). I also was interviewed by a selection committee (that was very frightening, but a good experience). Anyway I didn急 sleep for the week while I was waiting to hear whether I got it or not. I DID!!!!! They selected me. They selected me Tachi
Morihara.
During the next few weeks while I was waiting to hear where I was going I attended AIESEC discussion groups on Entrepreneurship. I also worked with the team of people who had organised the seminar I attended, as they were planning similar activities for others. They were developing the concept to include simulations of business development. I learnt a lot during those weeks that totally transformed me. I can say that for a fact now that I look back.
I got a traineeship in Sweden. The AIESECers prepared cultural preparation meetings with people from a local NGO, that was very interesting. The other 9 trainees were exchange to countries like South Africa, Botswana, Turkey, the UK, The US, Ecuador and Hong Kong . Imagine!
The company I was going to was an Interior Design company that wanted me to help them develop strategies for entering the Japanese market. Wow! The company only consisted of three people. They had started the company together four years ago, and had expanded to the rest of Scandinavia and now wanted to go farther afield. I was very nervous, but also excited to have this challenge.
RECEPTION and INTEGRATION
Although the company was doing quite well, one of the characteristics of the entrepreneurship is home-stays to save the entrepreneur costs, and to encourage the trainee and the mentor get to know each other outside of the work setting. I got picked up in the airport by Karen and Annette from AIESEC. Very nice girls., and they took me home to Mr. Hansen, my boss. It was very difficult for me the first weeks to live with my boss. He insisted that I call him Flemming rather than Mr. Hansen. After a while
I was really happy for that arrangement. He taught me so much about starting a business. My job was a challenge but an exciting one. Mr. Hansen wants me to work for him in Japan, and continue the job. I think I will do it for a while, but I also want to make real of what I have learnt and start up my own business.
AIESEC Stockholm hosted several round tables on entrepreneurship, with trainees who were involved in the same programme as me, and with teachers from the faculty of Small Scale Enterprise at the business school. Through this we got a lot of skills to help us develop further in this area. Toward the end of my stay I worked closely with Annette (I don急 think she ever realised how much I really liked her) in planning and developing these projects to support both trainee development, but also to create
awareness among the students at the business school on how important entrepreneurship is. For this I also contributed by going out to classes several times and talked about entrepreneurship, and my experiences in Sweden.
One thing that I found a little strange was a monthly community service for all the trainees. I helped with visits to the inhabitants at an old age home. At the beginning I didn急 understand the benefits of this, but now I realise that I learnt so much about Swedish culture by meeting these people who were so different from those I met in the student environment or at the workplace. I also kept being reminded of the bigger perspective of things. There is more to making a living than making a career. I
still have to think about what to do with that realisation though.
REINTEGRATION
I am going on for a little too long, Annette asked me for a two page summary. I will end by saying that the re-integration in Japan was good. I think mainly because of my excitement, and less due to AIESEC. They can improve here.
I was evaluated on what I had learnt during my traineeship, and I believe I am quoted in the annual Report of AIESEC International! I volunteered to work with AIESEC Japan at their seminar s on entrepreneurship to show students how much learning through experience means. Some of my university courses fade in comparison with this. I said yes to Flemming旧 offer, although Mitsubishi Corp. Offered me a job! I am so pleased with myself. I am going to make a life through being my own boss. And I have set
up a network with all the students who have been an exchange such as mine, so we can support each other in our aspirations to innovate the Japanese economy and own lives.
Thank you AIESEC.
AIESEC activities should not focus on only one result. To develop a balanced individual and society we must strive for a combination of all of these areas.
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