international volunteering opportunities abroad in summer live chat output
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LIVE CHAT
What is in the agenda?
• WHAT IS AIESEC?
• WHAT IS THE GLOBAL CITIZEN PROGRAM?
• WHICH ARE THE OPPORTUNITIES?
• WHAT IS THE PROCESS?
What is AIESEC?
AIESEC IS THE WORLD LARGEST
STUDENT RUN ORGANIZATION.
WE DEVELOP LEADERSHIP POTENTIAL OF YOUTH THROUGH EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING, BY EXCHANGE OR CAMPUS INVOLVMENT, ENABLING EMPLOYERS AND ORGANISATIONS TO CONNECT WITH A
GLOBAL NETWORK OF TALENT.
AIESEC
IN ITALIA
INTERNATIONAL STUDENT NETWORK run by students
for students and recent graduates
Partner of
united nations
What is AIESEC?
A COMPANY
A TRAVEL AGENCY
PHILANTHROPY
AIESEC is not
AIESEC IS PRESENT IN
OVER 127 COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES.
It is structured in one national headquarter and a number of local
offices university or city based.
In Italy, our local offices
are university based.
AIESEC IN ITALY
62 years old
19 local offices in 17
cities2 new openings in 2016
+800 members
+1400 exchanges
Per year
1. TORINO2. MILANO3. PAVIA4. GENOVA5. BRESCIA6. TRENTO7. PADOVA8. VENEZIA9. TRIESTE10. FERRARA11. BOLOGNA12. ANCONA13. ROMA SAPIENZA14. ROMA TRE15. NAPOLI FED II16. NAPOLI PARTHENOPE17. BARI18. PALERMO19. CATANIA
Our programs
• VOLUNTEERING ABROAD - GLOBAL CITIZEN
• PROFESSIONAL INTERNSHIPS ABROAD – GLOBAL TALENT
• HOSTING FAMILIES PROGRAM – GLOBAL FAMILTY
• SOLUTIONS FOR COMPANIES
• IN CAMPUS PROGRAMS FOR STUDENTS WORKING IN OUR LOCAL OFFICES – GLOBAL LEADER
GLOBAL CITIZEN PROGRAM:
• VOLUNTEER PROGRAM ABROAD
• WORKING IN PROJECTS WITH SOCIAL IMPACT TO IMPROVE UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT GOALS: example: #4 Quality education, #10 Reducing inequalities
• WORK IN A TEAM WITH INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS LIKE YOU FROM AROUND THE WORLD
• DURATION: FROM 6 TO 10 WEEKS
• OVER 700 ITALIANS GOING ABROAD FOR A VOLUNTEER PROGRAM WITH AIESEC EACH YEAR
Why VOLUNTEERING
• PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
THE PROGRAM AIMS TO DEVELOP 4 CHARACTERISTICS: SELF-AWARE, SOLUTION ORIENTED, EMPOWERING OTHERS AND WORLD CITIZEN
• BE A REASON FOR A CHANGE ABROAD
LEAVE YOUR MARK ON EDUCATION OR OTHER ISSUES OF THE CITY THAT YOU WILL VOLUNTEER IN
• EXPERIENCE DIFFERENT CULTURES
GET ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE OF THE WORLD FROM PEOPLE WITH DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS
Testimonials
YOU WILL WORK INSIDE OF PROJECTS CREATED
BY AIESEC MEMBERS FOR YOU!
Social problem
definiton & plan
definition by AIESEC team
Creation of the project:
• Research ofschools and NGOs• Research of
accomodation for international
interns
Arrival of internationa
l intern to participate in the project
• Projects are born with a purpose connected to united nationas development goals.
• A project takes around 6 months to be created by the local aiesec team
• Starting and ending dates depends on the project itself: sometimes dates are flexible, sometimes they are not
• Over 5000 projects currently available on our platform
Destinations
Top destinations for the next month for italian students:
Brazil, Greece, Croatia, Taiwan, Egypt, India, Poland, Russia, Colombia, Hungary, Serbia, Mexico, Ethiopia
In the opportunity portal you can see all of the projects in more than 100 countries
Projects
Projects
Projects
THE MYTH OF BIG CITIES
USUALLY VOLUNTEERS WANT TO GO IN THE BIG CITIES, but according to the feedbacks we recieve all the time, THE BEST EXPERIENCES HAve BEEN IN SMALL AND AVeRAGE CITIES, NOT IN BIG METROPOLeS.
THE TIME THEY SPENT GOING TO WORK IS LESS AND GETTING TO KNOW LOCALS IS MUCH EASIER IN THE SMALL OR MEDIUM CITIES.
Process
BROWSE OPPORTUNITIES IN OPPORTUNITY PORTAL WWW.AIESEC.IT/GLOBAL-CITIZEN/
WWW.OPPORTUNITIES.AIESEC.ORG
HTTP://EXPERIENCEHUB.AIESEC.IT/
WHEN YOU LOGIN TO APPLY YOU WILL BE CONTACTED BY THE ITALIAN LOCAL COMMITTEE COMPETENT FOR YOUR
UNIVERSITY.
What is included in the association fee?
• Fee is 250€: it covers the service for your contact here and the cost of the platform
• It is a fee for self-financing for AIESEC in Italy
• You will know if the project has extra fee before signing the contract (AIESEC in Italy will propose you projects without extra fee)
Not included: Flight costs, Medical Insurance
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