virtual professional program

The external context of the COVID-19 pandemic affected our ELD (Experien6al Leadership Development) programs. Safety and health of our stakeholders became a huge concern. Mobility restric6ons affected our aErac6on strategies. This affected the strategies we focused on each program.

Even with new ini6a6ves like the introduc6on of par6ally remote Global Talent and Global Teacher exchanges, our ELD programs were not suited to survive in COVID-19 pandemic context. To be able to con6nue delivering leadership experiences, we had to research and test new product ideas. In the last five months of 2020, the AIESEC Global Office researched, created, and tested a fully virtual AIESEC professional program.

This project was created with design thinking and the three lenses of innova6on method. We aimed to create a work-integrated learning program, which would not only contain an internship but it would offer different aspects such as training and networking.

We recruited pilot AIESEC en66es (29 in total) to research, create a prototype, and test it in the market.

At the end of 2020 the tes6ng phase was underway with the first seven available opportuni6es.