Monday, September 11, 2006
AIESEC Alumni Spreefahrt Review
We had a quiet good presentation in front of about 60 AIESECers, Trainees and Alumnis on the boat during the AIESEC Alumni Spreefahrt.
We had some great talks about the project afterwards and hopefully we can use the new contacts we gained and drive the project further.
Christopher
Sunday, September 03, 2006
Tentative conclusion
We had a goal for this IC - to present the extension project at the international level of AIESEC. I guess we achieved this goal. Many people especially the MCPs of the new MENA GN (yes, their is a MENA GN now, it is no MENA initiative any more) know about the extension and do support it. Everyone I was talking to asked what we are planning for the future, what will happen with Israel, if there will be no MC. I can hardly imagine a better promotion for the project. :)
But at the same time the position of AI is still uncleared. Several questions occur: Do they want to have Israel in the network, and when? What does it mean for the Palestine extension? What can Anas and Luma do on-site and how do we keep them interested?
I met a lot of people over here who can help and support us in the challenge we have to face. Therefore we can lift the project on a more professional level.
Hope to continue with a great team in Berlin as well as in Ramallah!
Last days
The last two days have been kind of a roller coaster. AIESEC University was lower than expected. At least the case studies we had to work on had been interesting and challenging.
At the evening of Sept. 1nd Brodie, former president of AIESEC (PAI), had held a very nice speech about the last year. But i did not listen, sorry...had to work on the application for the Economic Forum this week.
The evening was horrible! The agenda scheduled "Blind dates" and hardly anybody had a clue what this might mean.
The CC had matched similar countries. They should meet in quiet rooms and see how the meetings continued. Germany met with Ukraine - and it was another amazing experience at this year's IC...
It was a really stupid session loosing time when we could have done something really productive. But this one was redundant...
At the same time Global Legislation took place. A new and important rule was legislated: Before an expansion is allowed to start the whole initiative has to be accepted by the majority of the MCPs. That means we have to pass this process as well since Palestine is no extension country yet.
Right now we are in the last session called Pimp my Plan. Going through the country plans again we shall consolidate our plans...
Friday, September 01, 2006
Pictures of our Palestinians in Warsaw :)
Ghorfa
I did not follow because during breakfast I received a call. A call from Ghorfa. Have a look to the page: www.ghorfa.net
From September 6th to 8th the German-Arab-Economic-Forum will be hosted in Berlin. Our member of the Board of Advisors (BoA) of the LC at University of Technical Science in Berlin, Mr. Dirk Siemann from BankGesellschaftBerlin, had contacts to people involved in the organisation of this forum. At the last BoA-meeting in June he offered us to try if we could take part in one of the workshops and present the extension project.
This morning I was called and told I can present the project at the 3rd day of the forum (Sept. 8th)!
This forum will be attended by companies' leaders and high responsibles of Arab administrations as well as by German high performers. If we would not get any support out of this conference of people who might be interested in this project it would be very hard to find financial support throughout the economy.
Biut so far I am very glad and happy and enthusiastic about the project and the opportunity to present it to one of our main target groups - leading Arab representatives.
Good luck
