Saturday, February 23, 2008

Directors!

For those who still don't know, the Directors for AIESEC International in 08/09 are:

Monica Costea - Romania
Annika Rudback - Egypt
Kate Hanlon - Australia
Phil Oduor - Kenia
Felipe Cardenas - Colombia
Li Zhen (Vincent) - Mainland of China
Congratulations to all of them and we are looking forward to find out who is the next CEE Director on Monday.
Greetings from Ohrid,
Ira

Thursday, February 21, 2008

AI s/elections

The most amazing part of the AI s/election process is that you get more than 30 people from all over the world who are putting forward their ideas about AIESEC, about how the organization can look like and what kind of impact it can have.

More than 30 people from all over the world dreaming about the future of the largest global student run organization.

30 people with amazing passion, dreams, courage, daring to take the responsibility of making a bigger impact.

AI Director announcement is tomorrow night!

New PAI is Juan Cajio - current Director for Iberoamerica GN.

Best wishes from Ohrid,
Ira

AIESEC in Kyrgyzstan

Dear AIESEC in Kyrgyzstan!

I am writing this mail and my hands are shaking, emotions running through my head & heart: excitement, happiness, fullfillment...

With a great privilege and pride I would like to announce that 2 hours ago AIESEC in Kyrgyzstan was granted the
FULL MEMBERSHIP STATUS!!

After 2 years which brought first exchanges and projects, activated first Kyrgyz leaders in AIESEC, 2 years which were sometimes very challenging, the dream started by Elina and carried on by our generation became true!

As full members of AIESEC network we are entitled to take part in all strategic decisions of the organization with a vote right. It also means that with opportunities in front of us we shall accept the responsiblity for using them and utilizing the potential.

It is now in our hands. ALL of us. Each member at any position. We are good, we can be great. And the role of term 0809 is to use our achievement as calatyst for growth. And that needs people who can take it further - Leaders on local level - in LCEB Bishkek!

Thus, on this historical day we are opening the
applications for LCEB 0809, which you can find in myaiesec.net.

If there is time to achieve, it is now.
If there is option to grow & develop, it is here.
If you want to be a part of history, take destiny in ur hands!


On that day I would also like to thank people who made it happen. First of all to Elina, Shavkat, Sergey, Zemfira, Ailar - who established AIESEC in the country and initiatied its operations in 0607. AND To my MC team for all the commitment and action taken towards that goal in last 7 months, in all, even the most unfavourable conditions. Without you this would not happen!! THANK U!

With the best wishes and hugs from sunny Macedonia,
proud and happy :)

sandra, Irina & Lumi

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Greetings from your MCPs in Macedonia

Leadership generations

Hello, CEE!

More than 200 young leaders from all over the world are sitting now in plenary and waiting for the oficial opening of IPM. It's a bit late so we have time to talk to people whom seen at Ic last time, half a year ago in Turkey. every time we get off the plane we see signs on different language or even written in different letters. Already 50 times once in a year international, smiling young crowd appeared in one of the world capitals and it doesn't matter for them, for us - what's the distination: Guatemala, Egypt or Republic of Macedonia. Leadership - the world which would be wirtten on our flag if we have a flag, doesn't have a "homecountry", can't be kept by borders.

Few minutes ago I met my predcessor, Katya, who is now the global coordinator for InBev. I realized that there are 3 generations of Russian MCPs at IPM. Then I looked around: Slovakia, Macedonia, Estonia...there are quite a few countries which are standing in a groups of three, gathered by IPM from different parts of the world: Switzerland, Kazakhstan, France, Belgium.
Yesterday the girl from CC, when we tried to keep the sugar inside the broken pack, asked me if I'm the current MCP of Russia. She turned to be the former LCP of AIESEC Timisoara, the big boss of my MCVP Communication. Victor told me about her, about their last year team, about her experience in Kufunda village in Zimbabve where I hope to go one day...

What I have now in my mind is that the most valuable thing in AIESEC is not only growing number of young people with leaderrship experience, but tough times and happy moments they had, all these small things like night talks, getting lost in the cities, chatting in msn with 8 hours time difference - which tied them together and made any distance just one phonecall long. So the main input for myself stays the same as last year: look around, talk, fall in love, smile, have fun,remember.

Nastya Gulyavina,
MCP 07/08 Russia

Monday, February 18, 2008

IPM LIVE!

It is the first day of IPM.
Pre-meeting finished yesterday with great roll calls and getting ready to rock the house.

Reporting live from the Global Village at the central square in Skopje with almost a 1000 people present! It has been amazing once again, even though it is my 3 IPM and N-th in a row Global Village it is exciting.

Pictures and videos coming tonight! PAI elections, Director speeches and global planning - life is exciting!

Hugs,
Ira

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Latvia National Conference



Last weekend, AIESEC Latvia had its National Conference - NatCon 2008. The conference had a huge impact on our delegates and it turned out to be the best National Conference in the last years. We had 2 tracks, one dealing with PboX management for newies and one focused on Leadership Development for our EBs and OCPs.

Our conference team was made of 8 people of 6 nationalities. Our chair was Vishal, new elected MCP of AIESEC in Belgium. The facis were from Lithuania, Russia, Turkey, Romania and Latvia. All the conference team created a great atmosphere for AIESEC Latvia networking and bonding.

To the success of the conference contributed the externals invited, representing companies as PwC, Deloitte, Microsoft, CVO Recruitment and British Chamber of Commerce. It turned out that each day of the conference we had someone invited and delegates could network with the guests as most of them stayed at the conference later than planned initially (they enjoyed AIESEC spirit).

Added to this, we also had the chance to listen to the vision of the MC candidates for next term. They shared their ideas for how to improve and make AIESEC Latvia grow.

All these contributed to a great conference that made all delegates leave home inspired and motivated to work!

We as MC team would like to thank the faci team, the chair and the OC for contributing to NatCon 2008!

Wish you all such wonderful moments in your national conferences!

MC Team of Latvia 2007-2008

Wednesday, February 6, 2008


CEE LDS 2008/ 25 Feb 1 March | Ankara, TURKEY

What is CEE LDS?

  • The conference in CEE which reunites the people who are going to lead the CEE LCs in 2008
  • The CEE conference meant to enable CEE leaders to be successful and lead their teams towards performance
  • The conference aiming to bring a practical approach to leadership development in AIESEC: how can I take the most of my Leadership XP? How can I be a successful leader in AIESEC?

    Who can come?
  • Elects: OCPs/ EBs/ Team Leaders
  • Wannabes – people planning to be in a LR in their LCs in the next 1- 2 months: the potential LC leaders, especially the OCP wannabes - OCPs/ EBs/ Team Leaders
  • Current LC leaders: OCPs/ EBs/ Team Leaders

We invite you to...

  • Explore your leadership potential and the opportunities available for this stage
  • Rediscover the global aspect of AIESEC and make friends and partners from all over the AIESEC network
  • Challenge your understanding of AIESEC and CEE
  • Get ready to lead your team
  • Learn in a truly global environment
  • Have fun with CEE GN& enjoy Turkey

Apply here: http://ceelds.org/eng/index.php?ceelds=registrationDL 10 Feb

Find out more at the CEE LDS wiki: http://myaiesec.net/content/viewwiki.do?contentid=10004217 and at the CEE LDS site: http://ceelds.org/eng/index.php?ceelds=registration

For more questions write to: irina.ciobanu@aiesec.net