December is a good time to look back on the events of the year, here's a small recap from this year's Youth to Business forum and ACCESS, in Helsinki 1.11.-3.11.2013. LC Jyväskylä took part actively, here are Talvikki and Antti's experiences.
Talvikki: "I participated in the Youth To Business -forum organized in Helsinki just before the ACCESS-conference. The forum was organized by AIESEC, but it was not strictly an AIESEC-event: the venue was the Töölö campus of Aalto Unversity School of Business, and the event was promoted to students all over Finland.
The rainy weather and train strike kept some of the registered participants away, but all in all the venue was busy with people. I participated as a bit of an extra part of the organizing team, as the VPs of ICX were asked to work in partnercare. In a nutshell my task was to take care of the people from EF, help them in the workshop and be there if there was anything they needed.
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| EF Workshop |
All in all there were six interactive workshops organized by the partnering companies and AIESEC, and the participants took two rounds to take the workshops. Although I could only witness the EF workshop, focused on segmented marketing, it was a great chance to see this kind of group work. The representatives running the workshop were actually very impressed with the students' ideas!
The day ended with a panel discussion on generation Y, with participants for example from Google, Tekes and Aalto University- and of course from AIESEC."
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| ACCESS 2013 |
Antti: "The opening event of ACCESS was organized after Youth to Business. It featured a recap on how AIESEC in Finland is being receieved, and what's it's position right now. In the evening an award gala was held to reward successful members of different functional areas. Our LC took away 4 different awards including the LC on fire -award! Freetime and a superhero themed party made sure that the participants were having fun and socializing with each other.
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| LC Jyväskylä |
On Saturday we took part in lectures on leadership, possibilities offered by AIESEC and the successes and shortcomings of AIESEC. Later on we were divided into workshops based on our functional areas (oGCDP, iGCDP, iGIP, Comms, TM, Finance etc.) where we reviewed the successes and challenges, and created plans of action for that specific functional area.
After lunch LCs got to plan how to overcome the challenges under discussion during the conference, and how to reach our goals. In the evening Plenary we created video greetings to a few countries and to our new LC of Turku, Finland! Saturday night's party theme was "King of the jungle".
On Sunday we were divided into groups based on our membership status, TM (team member), TL (team leader) and VP (vice president), and our MCVPs gave us short lectures, again focusing on the challenges we face in our work. After that we made specific plans of action on our own projects and presented them to each other. Our lecturer gave us interesting insights on project managament.
During the Closing Plenary we had a couple of lead talks after which LCs agreed on making their earlier plans happen in reality as well as on paper!
Of course like in every AIESEC event, we got to dance dance dance - A lot!"
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| Thank you Helsinki |
This spring LC Jyväskylä will organize the next AIESEC conference, SUCCESS, in March. Stay tuned!
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On Saturday morning, people were divided into 2 big
groups: ICX (incoming exchange) and OGX (outgoing exchange) to focus on their specific field. Facilitators provided information
on important parts: time management, risk management, cost management, etc.
which are extremely challenging for leaders no matter where they work. There
was time for people to share and comment on each other’s difficulties and
improvements of their projects.
Our LCP Anna attended an international AIESEC conference EuroCo in Kiev, Ukraine in October 2013. The conference gathered up 150 Local Committee Presidents from over 50 countries from Europe and Northern America. Here she shares her thoughts of the conference and what it gave to our LC. Being an AIESECer is not only about sending people abroad and taking new ones in - opportunities like these truly prove what you can gain by being and AIESECer.
" The conference started with a Global Youth Forum that was organised for ukrainian youth. The speakers of the Forum were from companies such as Mars and Microsoft for example - and also our own President of AIESEC International, Rolf Schmachtenberg held his speech. They talked about challenges that young people face in today's world. We also had a chance to discuss about various issues with other Forum participants. It was interesting to talk with young ukrainians and to hear what they think about their future possibilities and the realities of their society.
