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AIESEC UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP

2016-2017 ANNUAL REPORT

About AIESEC Message from the President Why, how and what

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This Year Outgoing Exchange 10 Incoming Exchange 12 External Relations 14 Communications 16 Project Management 18 Talent Management 20 Finance 22 Facts and more Working with AIESEC 24 Abbreviations 26 Thanks 27

Message from the President

During the past year, I was able to live an extremely powerful leadership experience as the President of AIESEC at the University of Antwerp. When I look back to compare who I was when I joined AIESEC as a member in 2013 and the person I have become today, I could not imagine a more impactful journey of personal development. This year, I was truly able to witness the effect of our operations.

Flexibility and agility in our teams and operations enabled us to fully implement the new global Customer Flow. We started our digital transformation in 2015 - today, our customers go through an entirely new inbound journey starting from the online Youth Opportunity Portal. Roles and responsibilities were re-drawn and by aligning ourselves to a common goal, we made it happen.

In AIESEC, we develop leadership in young people through global, cross-cultural exchanges. We are the world’s largest youth-led organisation. Students in Antwerp have the opportunity to join the organisation as an active member or contribute through various leadership positions. As AIESEC’ers, we work every day to facilitate exchange experiences in order to create responsible and entrepreneurial leaders. Moreover, by having a position in AIESEC, we are able to develop our own leadership qualities through our own engagement and dedication.

As we continuously strive to innovate, we piloted two new concepts on-campus, focusing on the Sustainable Development Goals. During the YouthSpeak Forum, we brought together both young and senior leaders to form a diverse cross-sector and multi-generational space for inspiring conversations around pressing global issues. In the SDG Cup competition, students solved business cases connected to one of the Sustainable Development Goals.

Over the course of the past months, I have seen our members and exchange participants become world citizens, develop a solution-oriented mindset, improve their self-awareness and empower others around them.

These qualities are the characteristics we aim to develop in every young person in the world. Our vision for the past term was to focus on our core purpose: leadership development through exchange.

This vision led us to some very concrete projects and focus points. First and foremost, we geared our efforts towards delivering better and more aligned experiences for our exchange participants - both for students from Antwerp going abroad and graduates from all over the world having their first working experience in Antwerp. We decided to put our customers’ experience front and center. This led to us participating and completing the Customer Experience Challenge by AIESEC International, for which we received special recognition as we completed this challenge (over 40 specific tasks) 100%.

This year, the AIESEC in Belgium network worked together closely. We smoothly co-delivered trainee opportunities at companies in Brussels and Leuven. Together with the entire network, we took an important step for long-term growth by designing and implementing the Organizational Development Model which will guide us into growing AIESEC in Belgium sustainably.

We were able to start capitalizing on the strong foundations laid out by our predecessors and turn this into concrete impact. My gratitude goes out to our members, the national team, the University of Antwerp and our partnering companies - all of whom are crucial to making our exchanges happen. I am very proud to view the positive changes that have happened this year and excited to see what the future holds!

Pauline Van Ostaeyen Local Committee President ‘16 - ‘17

1944 Founding of AIESE: in Stockholm Bertil Hedberg, Stanislas Callens, Jean Chopin and Jaroslav Zich start the association preceding AIESEC.

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Purpose-driven, sustainable growth

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Why, how and what

Since then, the world has been changing faster than ever before. We believe that young people hold the key to a better future and they must learn to adapt quickly to solve problems. This is why AIESEC strives to peace and fulfillment of humankind’s potential.

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AIESEC was founded after the second world war by students from Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. Our fundamentals were shaped by the social, economic and political climate of the time.

In today’s context, ‘Peace’ does not exclusively mean avoiding war. Peace can symbolize a world that does not have conflicts that arise from cultural, religious, or other aspects of differences in humanity. Peace can also symbolize being in harmony with yourself. AIESEC strives to build a world where people can work towards their own understanding of peace, while respecting and understanding the views of others.

Through “Fulfillment of Humankind’s Potential, AIESEC strives for a world where people can be the best version of themselves.

1945 End of WWII: World War II comes to an end in 1945.

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We place our confidence in youth because they have the passion, dynamism and entrepreneurial spirit that are needed to shape the future. They have the responsibility to improve tomorrow by choosing who they will be today.

AIESEC is a platform for young people to explore and develop their leadership potential. After going through an AIESEC experience, young people are better prepared to make a positive impact in any sphere they choose.

Our Leadership Development Model AIESEC’s unique leadership development model seeks to prepare youth to take a stand on what they care about and become capable to make a difference through their everyday actions. That is why our answer is to develop the characteristics below according to the largest world issues and trends.

Self-aware Understands and lives personal values, focuses on strengths over weaknesses and explores one’s passions

World Citizen Believes in their ability to make a difference in the world, Interested in the world issues and enjoys taking responsibility for improving the world

Empowering Others Communicates effectively in diverse environments, develops & empowers other people and engages with others to achieve a bigger purpose

Solution-oriented Adapts and shows resilience in the face of challenges, transmits positivity to move forward throughout uncertainty and takes risks when needed

1948 Founding of AIESEC: in Liège - Belgium, students from 7 countries come together to lay the foundation for AIESEC.

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Cross-cultural exchanges AIESEC provides an opportunity for young people to work or volunteer abroad in non-familiar environments. This allows them to step outside their comfort zone and expand their world view, while contributing to the community in which they are working. Living such experiences enables people to build a better understanding on how to communicate and capitalize on divesity in our increasingly connected world.

Striving for Excellence We continuously improve through creativity and innovation. We strive to deliver the highest quality performance in everything we do.

Team experiences AIESEC members work in teams to create and manage these cross-cultural exchange experiences. This provides an opportunity for our members to live powerful team experiences and develop their own leadership potential.

Acting sustainably We act in a sustainable way for our ogranization and our society. Our decisions take into account the needs of future generations.

Demonstrating Integrity We are consistent and transparent in our decisions and actions. We fulfil our commitments and conduct ourselves in a way aligned with what we envision.

Activating Leadership We lead by example and inspire leadership through actions and results.

We take responsibility for developing the leadership potential of others.

Enjoying Participation We create a dynamic and welcoming environment through the active and enthusiastic participation of individuals.

We enjoy being involved in AIESEC.

Living Diversity We actively learn from different ways of life and opinions represented in our multicultural environment. We act inclusively, respecting and actively encouraging the contribution of each individual.

1949 International Congress: at the first International Congress, the founding documents of AIESEC are signed.

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ING Excellence in Leadership Award

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The Excellence in Leadership Award is given to people who have developed and demonstrated outstanding overall leadership qualities throughout the year.

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AIESEC and ING share the same commitment towards leadership development, because in a world advancing at an unprecedented pace, we need leadership more than ever in order to tackle the arising challenges. That is why ING aims to build positive, inspiring leadership from the inside out.

Towards a better value delivery In AIESEC we enable people to live a lifechanging experience in a cross-cultural challenging environment through three different exchange programs, Global Talent and Global Entrepreneur on a professional level and Global Volunteer on a voluntary basis. My teams guide students through their AIESEC experience from beginning until the end.

As a Vice President Outgoing Exchange one of my main focus points for OGX this year was improving customer experience. We are focusing on turning every AIESEC experience into an even more ‘powerful leadership experience’ by focusing on Value Delivery towards our Exchange Participants. Concretely we improved the support given to every lead from the start, by improving our application and administrative support and implementing outgoing preparation support through a one day ‘Outgoing Preparation Seminar’, providing the participant culture

preparation, expectation setting, goal setting and a leadership development space.

Another focus of our track is to extend our reach and to capitalize on our University Relations by collaborating with KDG, from now on all students have the possibility to do their mandatory internship for credits through AIESEC. My last major focus is to turn every AIESECer into an AIESEC ambassador by improving the knowledge of our exchange programs among members of other tracks. Therefore we launched the AIESEC Exchange Challenge and organised several Local Committee Meetings around our exchanges.

Evelien Nauwelaerts Vice-President Outgoing Exchange

Global impact on sustainability & society

1981 Global Themes: Start of the adoption of Global Themes, a yearly focus theme. In 1981, this was ‘World Energy’

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oGT APPROVALS

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oGT REALIZES

oGV REALIZES

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oGV APPROVALS

USA Czech Republic Germany India Vietnam Azerbaijan Malaysia Mexico

Poland Kenya Sri Lanka MexicoBrazil Italy Bulgaria Mauritius

The OGX Team

Isabella Helena

Djoeke Gerding

Sofie Kegels Team Leader Lars Van Esch

Eline Volant

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Marijke Hoekstra I inspired others in a multitude of ways. Of course by inviting them to take part in our programs, but also within my team i tried to contribute to a positive and constructive atmosphere. I got mostly positive feedback about this attitude, so I think I can conclude I attributed in a solid way.

In my first year in AIESEC I had a very good experience. I met a lot of like minded people, some of which became good friends as well.

Overall I can say that even one year in AIESEC was a game changer. I look forward to learning even more the coming years in different positions within AIESEC!

1986 TARGET: development of a new Exchange database system due to the rise of the perconal computer

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Simon Mulkens

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Sarah Andries I tried to help students to find a global volunteering opportunity they would like to experience and tried to help them with solving their questions about the opportunity. In this way I helped them to do something for the world, to get to know other cultures, to develop themselves and to have an awesome experience. The most important thing I learned from joining AIESEC was coming out of my comfort zone and daring to speak other languages.

I was forced to explain myself in other languages multiple times because of the international side of AIESEC. Thus now I am more confident and I learned how to handle new situations.

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Niki Bouchier Team Leader

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Evelien Nauwelaerts Vice-President

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Integrating cultures

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With my Global Talent experience, AIESEC UA provides me the right tools for my leadership development. It is all about great stakeholder management with an excellent experience delivery. Plus, the opportunity to kickstart my marketing career at a global level enables me to develop inumerous professional skills. Because of this, I can only say that working as an AIESEC intern at Nokia Belgium has been an unbelivable experience so far!

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- Marcelo, from Brazil, Marketing Assistant at Nokia Belgium

the experience of every trainee through our new buddy reception. It was heartwarming to see that trainees were invited to team buildings and came to our events to promote exchange and talk about their experiences. In my opinion, this is the most effective way to convince our high potentials to take the step, to go on exchange.

I am grateful to see that every member of the track tries to contribute to every experience. I am happy to see that the trainees are fully involved and are invited by members to join their social life with friends also when the activity is not related to an AIESEC experience. It is fantastic to see how so many different cultures, different backgrounds and different languages have so much fun together.

Leen Ceyssens Vice-President Incoming Exchange

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Think about an experience that helps you grow not only as a professional, but also as a human beign, while working with multicultural colleagues from all around the world.

Althought it sounds imposible, AIESEC UA proved me that dreams are close to become real if you work for them. The Global Talent Experience of AIESEC UA allow me to improve my leadership capacities, with strong team oriented skills while improving technical and organizational habilities. Working at Nokia as an Aiesec intern boost my career in marketing and my personal perspective about the world.

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The core of AIESEC is all about exchanges. More specifically, the incoming exchange track tries to provide an optimal service towards both the company and the trainee. By finding a match between the company and the trainee, a life changing experience can start. In the incoming exchange track, two different teams are daily involved by supporting the trainee and our partnering companies through their experience.

On the one hand, the account team is involved in the matching process between the company and the trainee and assist trainees in the VISA procedure. On the other hand, the buddy reception team provides housing and helps the trainees with other practical needs such as insurances, registration, social activities etc.

As a Vice president Incoming Exchange, my main focus point of this term is the visibility of our trainees in our local committee. Besides my aim to increase our number of exchanges and provide a supportive service towards our partnering companies, our trainees reflect the message of AIESEC. Every track was involved in

- Oscar, from Colombia, Marketing Assistant at Nokia Belgium

1991 EU: Signing of the Maastricht Treaty

ICX in numbers

3 TRAINEE EVENTS

100% EVALUATION MEETINGS

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NEW ARRIVALS

The ICX Team

Eline Goris

Rachel Niemba Suka

Maaike Hermse Team Leader Elisabetta Pisani

Joyce De Clerck - Team Leader As part of the ICX track, I had the chance to visit companies. On the one hand, I had to negotiate and close contracts with them. On the other hand, I had to visit the companies to gain feedback, so that AIESEC can improve itself constantly. Furthermore, my members and I had to find the appropriate trainees that fit the companies perfectly. As a team leader, I had the opportunity to lead a team of three members. This helped me to develop my leadership and organizing skills.

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Clint Adjovi-Tokin

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Elise Stynen I learned that young people are full of potential.

AIESEC is a huge international organization that is mostly run by young people, and it works amazingly well! Furthermore, I learned that I, personally, have to be more confident and open to opportunities. I would advise all students that want to join AIESEC but are scared of this, to just do it! Every AIESEC member is extremely nice and willing to give everybody a chance, so there really is no reason to be scared! Plus, you gain a lot by being a part of AIESEC.

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1992 United Nations & AIESEC: From this year on, AIESEC is regularly invited to UN summits and seminars

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Leen Ceyssens Vice-President

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Growing companies and skills In the External Relations track, we build a bridge between the academic world and the professional world by establishing relationships with interesting companies. In doing this, we are looking how AIESEC can provide added value to the business and to make the company grow.

Most of the time, the members of the ER track have never gotten in touch with HR-directors, CEO’s or founders of companies in the beginning of the year. During the year, they go through an amazing transformation and now, in May, I’m proud to say that I have seen every member and team leader of ER grow in this process.

Members usually start contacting companies through cold calling or at network events. The main purpose of this first interaction is to book a meeting where they will explain Global Talent.

This program gives young high potentials from all over the world the opportunity to go work abroad.

To make this happen, every member gets the required education and training. The whole External Relations team got several professional sales trainings where they learnt different ways on how to contact companies, things to keep in mind,... On top of that, all of the members received proper guidance and support from their team leader.

When I look at the motivation and the accomplishments of every single member and team leader of ER, I’m happy I can finish my term also knowing that my successor will do a great job!

Courtney De Plukker Vice-President External Relations

Selection of partners

1996 Deutsche Post DHL: Beginning of the partnership with DPDHL, with over 800 internships realized today.

ER in numbers

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COMPANIES AT SPEEDDATES

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The ER Team

Quirine Peeters Team Leader Evelien Dam Team Leader Malo Degroux Team Leader Vincent Loos I had the chance to meet many managers and show them what we can do for them and how, together, we could improve the world of tomorrow. All this gave me a great sense of fulfillment.

Lloyd Van Doorn Salah El Khaloufi During my period within the ER track I learned so much things about myself. I felt it is possible to develop my leadership skills by contributing to the a greater cause.

StĂŠphane Deffontaine Jonas Dierckxsens I seriously improved my professional communication skills by doing cold-calls to companies and organizing meetings.

Arno Van Den Audenaerde

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Courtney De Plukker Vice-President

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Benjamin Bellens Davaka Tsatsrag I learnt from AIESEC that individuals who clutch together really can make a difference in the world. On a professional level I learnt how to make cold calls and improved my networking skills as well as my public speaking.

Andrea Goossens

2001 9/11: Terror attacks on the Wold Trade Center in New York

Leveraging on our core values The Communications track (COMM) is responsible for all internal and external communication, marketing channels and designs of AIESEC UA. This track also supports others in their marketing efforts and ensures that all IT systems are well integrated and understood by members of AIESEC UA. We think about how to convey the message of our projects, exchanges and so on in the most effective way to students, companies and general stakeholders. We did this using social media, email, print, events and other tools. This, combined with a unique branding style aligned with our international guidelines, is what made up our team.

One of the first challenges is to communicate a consistent, clear message throughout all of our channels. With a clear decision to grow our recognition as an organisation for leadership development through exchanges, we moved away from our legacy of company-related events and searched for a new balance with long-time partners.

Another challenge was to implement a new customer flow for our exchange products midterm. We worked towards a more automated marketing environment, with marketing automation tools and lead nurturing. This requires more planning in advance, but improves the overall customer experience.

A last challenge will be to remain relevant and communicate that relevance in an everchanging environment. Young people have access to dozens of exchange opportunities by increasingly more providers. We need to inform people correctly that the focus on leadership development is a huge differentiator.

Michiel Valee Vice-President Communications

2002 ICX in Antwerp: The first AIESEC trainee in Antwerp since the early ‘90s arrives. He is an American citizen with Indian roots.

COMM in numbers

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The COMM Team

Mieke de Clercq

Hans Otto Wirtz

Frank Dercksen Team Leader - NST Silke Aerts

Astrid Lebrun

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Olesia Ostrovskaia In our track we made a contribution for attraction of the exchange programmes and got more students to apply for them. While being a member of AIESEC I got and improved a lot of skills. Some of them are working as a team, contributing to one goal that all of the members want to achieve, organising events and being responsible for your own task in a track. As a COMM member I’ve learnt a lot of new platforms and graphic programs.

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2004 Merger: AIESEC RUCA and AIESEC UFSIA merge into AIESEC UA, with Eva Mattheeusen as the first LCP

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Rebecca den Hartog

Charlotte Opsomer I contributed to the AIESEC vision just by being part of the organization and by organizing events to encourage people to go abroad. Developing myself, my soft skills and my leadership are also things that are important in AIESEC. I learned to be more open-minded. I also dared to do aula speeches and rehearse my public speaking skills, which was really stressy for me. I also realized the importance of motivating each other and teambuilding, which makes your team stronger, so your teamwork becomes better!

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Magali De Schutter Team Leader

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Exchange experiences through local events Project Management can be considered the notice board of AIESEC on campus. By organizing events, in all possible sizes and shapes, we try to connect with our fellow students and let them realize what AIESEC can mean for them.

During the organization of an event, we meet quite a lot of people; students, professors, company representatives, but also internally there is a lot of cooperations between the different tracks. Project Management experiences a close collaboration with ER, our sales department, for the content of some events, as well as with Communications for our marketing and promotion campaigns. The Finance track also has its share with composing and monitoring the stated budgets.

This year’s biggest challenge was to accomplish the goal that we, as the EB of 1617, have set for this term: raising the number of OGX experiences provided by our LC. By creating two cross-track teams of motivated AIESECers, we accomplished to organize two major events for the promotion of the programs we offer. This way, members

could accept an additional responsibility, or even become Organizing Committee President for one of both events.

Further, we managed organizing nearly the same number of events as last year, relying on only half the amount of members. Through a proper recruitment and an efficient way of working we succeeded in our task.

With the proposed transition from PM to PR during the next term, all roads are again open.

New methods can be tried out, and a refreshed approach towards the students and companies can provide other and new opportunities.

I wish the EB of 1718 all the best of luck with their term and further AIESEC career!

Louise De Vliegere Vice-President Project Management

2006 DiAmAnt Day: stands for DIscovering AMazing ANTwerp - a reception day organized for trainees in Belgium to experience Antwerp

PM in numbers

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Louise De Vliegere Vice-President Vincent Totté - Team Leader As a team leader, I like to think that I was able to motivate and empower my members this year. That they were able to take on new challenges and develop themselves as a person and as a leader. Taking on that role of leader was harder than I originally thought. And there were definitely some struggles at times, but hard work pays off. At the end of the year, I feel a lot more comfortable taking on a leading role.

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Astrid Jans

Eva Kenis

Zoë Rouwhorst

Allison Mutombo Kalenda Team Leader

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The PM Team Aurélie Delwaide During this year, I feel like I've grown as a person. My best experience was the Speeddate. It was the first event that we organized all by our21 selves in small teams. We did everything, from contacting the companies to making the snacks to speeching at the event itself. At the end of the day, I felt really proud of myself.

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Lise Annaert Jens Matthé I have had a lot of opportunities last 2 years. Nowadays I know better how to start working on a project and to think what has to be done on a practical way. I learned how to prepare presentations about a project idea and about a lot of tips and tricks to manage an interview. This year I had the chance to lead my own Organising Committee so I have not only learned to work with people but also to lead people.

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2008 Financial Crisis: start of the financial crisis after the bankrupcy of Lehman Brothers

Guiding members in exploring their potential Talent Management (Human Resources) mainly focuses on the current and potential future members of AIESEC UA to make sure that each of them gets the most out of their AIESEC experience.

At the start of my term as Vice President Talent Management, I had three goals: implementation of LC education, Implementation of a coaching system in the LC and Alumni management.

Thanks to the great work of my first team ‘People & Development’ we were able to reach the first two goals. This team is comparable to the Human Resources departement of an organization. Their job is to guarantee the education and the well being of the members. During the year this team organised different workshops like: ‘The wolf of AIESEC’, ‘From idea to business, photoshop, leadership skills, …

We were able to bring the alumni closer to the

LC by organizing the first alumni meeting in September and during the workshops we had a few alumni as guest speakers. I would like to thank them for the collaboration.

My second team ‘Recruitment & Internal Projects’ is responsible for the organization of several events for our members, some great examples are Students on Stage, a Christmas Party,.. . This team also takes care of the recruitment.

The results of Talent Management were only possible thanks to my two team leaders and their members, so I would like to thank them for their hard work and motivation during the year.

Jill Boeren Vice-President Talent Management

2008 60 Years of AIESEC: 60th Anniversary of the founding of AIESEC

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TM EVENTS

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FULL MEMBERS

Jill Boeren Vice-President Charlotte Herpoelaert Team Leader Lotte Daens The Connect conference was so amazing! It was fantastic to experience how people with such a different background can so easily connect.

I met a lot of new people. The workshops focussed on your personal development and they were actually very relevant. It was such an enriching experience!

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Nikita Van Kerkhoven From AIESEC I learned to open myself up more to new people and new experiences, to work well in a team and to have more trust in the talents of others. Another thing I learned was to organise some events, like the LC Christmas party and the LC Team buildings, and the practical things that go with it.

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Hilda Shalovinsky Team Leader Muzzafer Caliskan My best AIESEC experience was when I got the opportunity to organize a workshop about leadership skills/development.

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Eline Senesael Yoëlle Van Der Laan I learned to be a team player and a lot of soft skills. You can use these skills when you're graduated. By joining AIESEC I've got a lot of new skills and a lot of new friends.

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Elke Vosters

2008 OGX in Antwerp: development of the OGX program in Antwerp sending people abroad

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Startegic impact through enabling financing Finance is the strategic back office of AIESEC UA. We ensure the financial health of our organization by allocating funds to interesting projects and initiatives, by keeping track of the books and by giving customized advice to everybody involved. Secondly the Finance department takes care of all the legal obligations both internal as external to enable the efficient governance of our organization.

For this year I had 3 main goals. First of all I wanted to bring finance back to finance, meaning that my team would really be involved in finance and legal operations like budget reviews, cases, compendium reviews etc.

This has been a great improvement for the practical learning experience in this department.

Secondly I tackled the lack of knowledge about the budgets which resulted in more efficient usage of funds, more in advance planning of expenses and more transparency about the overall performance. Lastly I wanted the budgets to fully support enable exchange growth, which

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was accomplished by good communication and co-creation from the beginning of the year.

As VP Finance, I was honored with the big responsibility that came with this position and the strategic impact that I had made this experience truly inspiring. I am happy to see that the Finance department has gone through a positive change and I am excited to see how this is taken forward in the future.

Henri Groenweghe Vice-President Finance

100% QUALITY OF DATA ENTRY based on control center in bookkeeping system

2009 Flag: AIESEC UA gets her own flag

F in numbers

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The F Team Henri Groenweghe Vice-President

25 Tom Deproost The Finance track of AIESEC is very important, because Finance supports the entire organisation. We tried to invent and implement new things that could help AIESEC to improve.

My best AIESEC experience was and is the fact that I came into contact with so many great people. I learned some soft and hard

Andreas Verbruggen skills, which are very useful, but meet people with the same and also different visions is the best experience AIESEC gave me.

I learned from AIESEC that sometimes coming out of your comfort zone is absolutely worth it. Sometimes, you don't have to think too much and just have to do it.

As the finance team we're on a little distant from the core business of AIESEC. We mostly went over subjects involving finances of course and innovation. The weekly meetings were the most interesting actually and

even fun. There's not one single best moment in my AIESEC experience but the big picture itself was a great experience. I learned to be more open-minded.

2009 100: for the first time ever, AIESEC UA has over 100 members

Working with AIESEC

Grow your company by accessing our global youth network

That is in essence the story of AIESEC’s growth the last 61 years at the University of Antwerp. We develop people that proactively look for opportunities to grow together with an organization. People who are teamplayers and have the right values in mind.

With our Global talent programme we can bring people from 100+ countries into your organization to aid with your goals and pilot your company into an interconnected global world where an enormous potential for growth lies. According to us bringing a different culture into an organization makes people rethink their previous decisions and put it in a larger, global context and thus prepare your enterprise for a bright, global future.

We assist start-ups, SME’s and multinationals in developing themselves by recruiting AIESEC’ers from all over the whole world and assisting them in the process.

We strive to minimize any hassle, recruiting a young high potential from Indonesia or someone from Antwerp should not differ in a significant way when you are working with AIESEC.

This translates into our buddy reception team that takes care of housing, a phone number, a social network, …

We are looking for partners that share the same values as we do. Partners that we can actively support in growing their business alongside AIESEC. This way we can ensure a long-term partnership that has an impact on the world.

aiesec.be/companies

2016 60 Years: 60th Anniversary of AIESEC UA with a special edition of the Stakeholders Night: 60 Years of Young Leaders

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t AIESEC we support companies in growing internationally. Companies often have the ambition to become a global player or to tap into markets where they see enormous potential in the short or long term but are held back because of several factors. AIESEC believes that growth and change can only be achieved by having the people who are willing to take an organization to the next level.

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AIESEC Abbreviations As we like efficiency, AIESEC is full of abbreviations. Listed below are the most frequently used ones. Don't worry if they seem daunting at first - but make sure to keep this sheet at hand!

AI: AIESEC International AIESEC in Belgium: national AIESEC level AIESEC: Used to be the abbreviation of Associ-ation Internationale Des Etudiants en Sciences Economiques et Commerciales. Now AIESEC is used as the full name.

AIESEC’er: Someone currently/in the past in-volved in AIESEC COMM: Communications - a track at AIESEC UA Compendium: Rule set (AIESEC UA Compen-dium is an example of an LC rule-set) (NL: Huishoudelijk Reglement) EB: Executive Board (the LCP and LCVP's) EP: Exchange Participant (someone going on an internship or volunteering abroad) ER: External Relations – a track at AIESEC UA EuroCo: European Conference F: Finance - a track at AIESEC UA FACI: Facilitator (usually speaker/presenter/ person who gives workshops at conferences) Full Member: Member who meets the Full Membership Criteria and has voting rights GA: General Assembly oGT: Outgoing Global Talent, exchange product oGV: Outgong Global Volunteer, exchange product oGE, Outgoing Global Entrepreneur, exchange product iGT: Incoming Global Talent IC: International Congress (largest annual conference, organized by AI) ICX: Incoming Exchange - a track at AIESEC UA ITtT: International Train the Trainers conference (helps FACIs) IXP: Integrated Experience JD: Job Description JF: Job Fair LC: Local Committee (an AIESEC chapter at a University) LCP: Local Committee President LCVP: Local Committee Vice President MC: Member Committee (National AIESEC level) MCP: Member Committee President

MCVP: Member Committee Vice-President NTMS: National Training & Motivation Semi-nar (a conference) OGX: Outgoing Exchange – a track at AIESEC UA PM: Project Management - a track at AIESEC UA TLP: Team Leader (Program) TM: Talent Management - a track at AIESEC UA TMP: Team Member Program TN: Traineeship Nomination TN taker: Traineeship Nomination taker (company taking on AIESEC trainees) WENA: Western Europe and North America - one of the AIESEC regions XP: Experience

2017 CX Challenge: AIESEC UA gets awarded with CX Customer Centricity Award for its continious effort for the customers

Robert Half Passionate Leadership Award

The Passionate Leadership Award recognizes AIESEC members who demonstate passion and dedication in their work.

For the past 70 years, Robert Half has become a global leader in recruitment by staying true to her core values - one of which is Leadership by Example.We believe the corporate world as well as our society are are positively influenced by Passionate Leadership - not based on hierarchy or status, but through being a good example for others. Nominees for this award inspire people through their passion, which drives the team to go the extra mile.

As a partner of AIESEC, Robert Half happily invests in the leadership of the future.

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Special Thanks Member Committee of AIESEC in Belgium ‘16 - ‘17 Jaouad El Azzouzi , Velina Dragiyska, Marcos Batista, Gabriela Morais, Sarah Frans, Josephus Ayoola, Yassine Tajafrat, Myriam Neri, Michelle Li, Vishwas Katti Rector of the University of Antwerp Herman Van Goethem Dean of the Faculty of Applied Economics Rudy Martens LC Coach Sarah Frans

Members of the BoA ‘16 - ‘17 Filip Roeckens, Frank Troch, Michèle Van Spilbeeck, Nicolas Van Spilbeeck, Olivier De Pooter, Quinten De Witte, Roberto Benabid, Romy Van Bogaert, Stijn Cornelis, Yorick Van Alphen, Jeroen Janssens, Lars Vercammen, Liesbeth Ollieuz, Yanni Vissers Members of the financial BoA ‘15 - ‘16 Filip Roeckens, Leander Baelus, Peter Neefs, Thierry De Vliegere, Frank Troch, Michèle Van Spilbeeck, Nicolas Van Spilbeeck, Olivier De Pooter, Quinten De Witte, Roberto Benabid, Romy Van Bogaert, Stijn Cornelis, Yorick Van Alphen

Chair of the General Assembly Stijn Cornelis Chair of the Board of Advisors (BoA) Filip Roeckens

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