Understanding our organisation year for year

before 2005

1940-50’s

1948: AIESEC was founded - Build relations between student organizations (main tools: exchange through study tours or recreational trips)1949 – 1958 - Focus: economics & commerceDevelopments in Information Management – Matching happening at conferences. An internship for an internship process. IStudy tour exchanges would provide additional ways to experience other countries. Late 50s: Growth in exchange, there was a need for post-congress matching

1960’s

Compendium 1961: AIESEC is an independent non-political, international student organisation, which has as its purpose, to establish and promote close and friendly relations between members without regard to religion or race.

Compendium 1964: AIESEC is an independent non-political, non-profit, international student organisation, which has as its purpose, to establish and promote close and friendly relations between members without discrimination through international educational programmes.

1940-60’s

1949 – 1961: Rotating presiding countries, which usually held the International Congress. The president of the country would function as “Presiding Committee President”.1960: One person elected as General Secretary, who would report to the NCP of the presiding country (in 60-61 it was the UK) 1961: Set up of International AIESEC Secretariat in Geneva: Administrative, financial and consulting role, The Secretary General had to report to Congress, and no longer to a presiding country (that rotating system was abolished)

1970’s in Sweden

AIESEC Sweden at this time had above 100 TNs and SNs realised almost every year. There were 7 LCs, and Uppsala, Karlstad and Linkoping were the LCs that joined this decade. Around 70 members nationally. The organisational structure was a National Committee consisting of MCP, 1 MCVP and all LCPs. Then the executive board (Arbetsutskottet) functioned as today’s MC and consisted of MCP, MCVP + controllers. Quality of traineeships and increase of external awareness were focus areas for many years. Scandinavian and Nordic conferences were organised, and global results were around 4.000 exchanges annually.

AIESEC’s Structure

The 1980’s

AIESEC Way, strategy & focus What we envision: Peace and fulfilment of humankind’s potential Our impact: Develop internationally educated management To contribute to the development of our countries and their people with an overriding commitment to international understanding and co-operation.

The 1980’s

Focus on new expansions.2 areas of 2 year programmes: Theme Programmes and ExchangesExchanges were still the centre of our activities as well as the Global theme projects. International theme for 80’s included; • Energy • Information Age Services: • Tomorrow’s Economy • The challenge of global Co-operation

The 1980’s

We created: The youth Action guide for sustainable development, which lead to an increase in our focuses and The Global Theme Programme:• Entrepreneurship • Corporate Responsibility • New opportunities for global development

The 1980’s

A new kind of freedom was given to the members, which lead to an increase in local activities and included the following:• Building bridges between management, academic and

student communities • Promotion of international understanding, goodwill and

empathy for a different management attitude, as most companies in this era had expanded greatly their middle management and then downsized in early 80s (causing small drop in exchanges)

Sweden in the 1980’s

• 82/83: • Uppsala arranged a company fair, and Stockholm arranged a 35 year

celebration of AIESEC with 142 international guests. • 83/84: Orebro joined! • 84/85: Number of members increased, and Lulea and Vaxjo joined! Many LCs arranged company fairs • 86/87:

Almost half of the membership (around 100) went on international meetings!

• 87/88: 11 LCs. Sundsvall joined this year! (Stockholm, Lulea, Goteborg, Sundsvall, Umea, Karlstad, Linkoping, Uppsala, Orebro, Vaxjo, Lund)

The 1990’s

AIESEC Way, strategy & focus AIESEC Way 1989 What we envision: Peace and fulfilment of humankind’s potential Our impact: To contribute to the development of our countries and their people with an overriding commitment to international understanding and co- operation. The way we do it: Creating opportunities for exposure and interaction between young people of different cultures and nations Assisting people in acquiring skills and knowledge through management education and practical experience. Offering people the opportunity to interact with their social and economic environment

The 1990’s

Throughout the decade there was major discussion in organization on the area of focus AIESEC should have, as still there was the choice between indirect/direct impact being made. Social development activities were the biggest focus, what caused decrease of focus and interest in exchange & questioning exchange relevance and loosing one direction and unity inside organization

The 1990’s1999What is AIESEC? AIESEC is an international, non-political, non- profit, student-run, independent, educational foundation. It is comprised of students and recent graduates of institutions of higher education who are interested in economics and management. AIESEC does not discriminate on the basis of race, colours, sex, sexual orientation, creed, Religion, national or ethnic origin. What we envision? Peace and Fulfilment of Humankind’s Potential. Our impact: By developing individuals, we contribute to the development of our communities with an overriding commitment to international co- operation and understanding. The way we do it: AIESEC facilitates international internship exchanges and supporting activities that provide practical learning experiences for our trainees and that facilitate the learning of our members and other stakeholders.

Sweden in the 1990’s

• 89/90: 250 members and 11 LCs. 95% of the members change during 2

years. • 90/91:

300 members, 11 LCs. Orebro – “Best performing LC”, Karlstad “Upcoming LC”

• 91/92: 13 LCs, 350 members. Jonkoping joined, and Stockholm split up in SU

and SSE • 92/93:

13 LCs, 350 members • 93/94:

12 LCs, 250 members. Lulea closed.

The 00’s

Global organisational focus shifted from Projects to exchange.Result: A drop in membership, and an increased focus on member development

The 00’s

The AIESEC xPerience was created:

AIESEC Sweden in the 00’s• 99/00: • To overcome the organisational problems and due to the organisational re-design some LCs became key

accounts under other LCs. This happened with Vasteras who became a key account of Uppsala, Orebro to Linkoping, and Jonkoping to Lund.

• 00/01: • The active LC were Goteborg, Linkoping/Orebro, Lund/Jonkoping, SSE, SU and Uppsala. LC Karlstad and LC

Lulea were shut done because of the bad results (none) and lack of members. LC Kalmar and LC Gavle asked to start new LCs, but no new LCs will be up and running until the LCs in AIESEC Sweden are strong enough.

• 01/02: • Around 80-120 members. Good leadership in the LCP team. By the end of the year LC Linkoping and LC

Vasteras were closed down because of lack of results and very low member base and continuity. • 02/03: • Two LCPs re-terming (SU and Umea). LC Jonkoping had a CEEDer from Romania as LCP (Mihai Mazareanu)

and he was the only member in the LC in the beginning of the term. In February the LC was shut down. Around 60 members in the country.

• 03/04: • Two LCPs re-terming (Uppsala and Gothenburg). All LCs becoming stronger again, in terms of leadership

and exchanges. Around 70 members. Big increase in members going on international conferences (a total of 21 members), and also members going on CEED (3 over summer 2004).