Programme DefinitionGlobal Internship ProgrammeA Global Internship Programme (GIP) experience is an opportunity for a young person to develop entrepreneurial and responsible leadership by living a cross-cultural professional development experience. How do we run this programme? We provide an internship in a host organisation, through which a young person contributes to the goals of the organisation, completes a job description requiring special expertise or skills, and receives supervision and evaluation on his or her professional development.

What can an organisation gain through this programme? GIP hosts are organisations that support AIESEC s values and want to enhance their organisation through involving global top talent, improving their processes or growing their organisational goals. With them, we cocreate opportunities for young people to work, learn and contribute to the organisation s goals. What can a young person gain through this programme? With this programme, a young person gains access to AIESEC s value-based platform, and one experiences: A professional development experience A cross-cultural living and working experience GIP participants can have different types of internship experiences as long as their role and supervision clearly contribute to their professional development. Duration of a GIP experience: 6-78 weeks How will this be measured on the system? A GIP internship is counted as soon as an EP is realized to a GIP internship, which should be on their first day at work. An individual is counted as a GIP participant as soon as his or her GIP form has been raised.

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Programme DefinitionGlobal Internship ProgrammeCan an NGO or IGO host a GIP experience? Any organisation in the public, private, or social sector can be TN taker for GIP experience, as long as the internship meets the programme definition, conditions, and policies. This includes that the TN taker must provide an EP with a professional development experience. Why does it matter to deliver professional development experiences ? AIESEC s purpose is to provide a platform for young people to explore and develop their leadership potential for positive impact on society. The way we do this in GIP is by providing a professional development experience and a cross-cultural working experience. The Global Plenary at International Presidents Meeting 2011 in Mexico defined this in the Business Model Canvas. What is a professional development experience ? The basic indicators that an internship gives professional development are: 1. The intern spends at least 35 hours a week working in a host organization. 2. The intern is supervised and evaluated by one or more full-time employees of the host organization. 3. The intern has a training or learning plan, which specifies: The job description the intern will fill What professional activities, expertise, and/ or skills the intern will develop How the development of these skills will be evaluated, by whom, and when. 4. Additional training the intern will receive, if any. In addition, as stated in XPP, the internship cannot aim to solely provide the intern the opportunity to earn money. If an intern uses professional skills, does that automatically mean one is having a professional development experience? No. An individual can use professional skills, such as web development, language teaching, or project management, without participating in a programme whose purpose is to develop those skills. One good example from the outside world is the programmes run by Medicins Sans Frontiers. Professional doctors participate in MSF s programmes, but they are volunteers having a volunteer experience. Can you give me some examples? Providing web development to NGOs, without receiving training or development in the use of web design skills, is not necessarily a GIP experience. It is only a GIP experience if the intern is living a professional development experience, as defined above. In the same way, teaching English in rural classrooms, without receiving training on what curriculum to deliver or a performance evaluation, is not a GIP experience. If these experiences fulfil the description, conditions, and policies of the GCDP programme, then they may be raised as GCDP experiences. Does a GIP intern need to receive a salary? As defined in XPP, the TN Organisation is responsible to provide a sufficient salary that will allow the intern to live in the country and cover their basic expenses including accommodation, food, transportation, and basic reception activities for the duration of the internship. The organisation may provide this compensation in non-monetary format (such as offering lodging and food instead of a salary) provided this is indicated clearly in the signed Job Questionnaire. The salary must, at minimum, correspond to the local minimum wage.

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Programme DefinitionGlobal Community Development ProgrammeA Global Community Development Programme (GCDP) experience is an opportunity for young people to develop entrepreneurial and responsible leadership by creating direct positive impact through an international volunteer experience. How do we run this programme? We provide international volunteer experiences through which young people develop themselves while empowering individuals, communities or organisations. We focus on areas and issues with the need for direct social impact and sustainable solutions.

What can an organisation gain through this programme? GCDP hosts and partners are organisations which aim to create or support direct positive impact in communities through their activities, initiatives, or projects. With these organisations, we co-create opportunities for young people to develop themselves while providing direct positive impact. What can a young person gain through this programme? With this programme, a young person gains access to AIESEC s value-based platform, and he or she experiences: A cross-cultural living and working experience The opportunity to create positive societal impact Personal development GCDP participants can have different types of volunteer experiences. They may work with organisations or in projects which focus on community development, as long as their experience contributes to their personal development and positive impact on society.

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Programme DefinitionGlobal Community Development ProgrammeDuration of a GIP experience: 6-78 weeks How will this be measured on the system? A GCDP experience is counted as soon as an EP is realized to a GCDP experience, which should be on their first day at work. An individual is counted as a GCDP participant as soon as his or her GCDP form has been raised. Can a GCDP Experience be delivered without any external involvement? No. For an experience to be complete as a GCDP, it needs to have an external organization involved either as project sponsor, learning partner and/or as TN taker. An AIESEC entity cannot solely deliver without any external involvement in the EP s experience. Can a private-sector organisation be TN-taker for a GCDP experience? It is possible, but highly unlikely, that an organisation in the private sector would be the TN-taker for a GCDP experience. More commonly, a private-sector organisation would be the partner or sponsor for a GCDP experience, with a project, government, or social-sector organisation as TN-taker. Does a GCDP experience provide direct or indirect impact? GCDP provides an indirect development experience for the participant while enabling them provide direct societal impact. This does not in any way conflict with AIESEC s indirect impact model. Is it possible that a GCDP participant might use professional skills as part of their JD? Yes. A volunteer who uses his or her professional skills for the main purpose of positive impact is a GCDP participant, so long as his or her experience fulfils all of the other elements of the GCDP programme description. For example, Re-structuring the HR and financial processes of an orphanage Building a website for a foundation Giving medical help at a public clinic Teaching a language to children in a community might all be included in the job description of a GCDP participant, so long as the main purpose of the individual s activity is to develop personally while enabling positive impact on society. Should a GCDP intern receive a salary? As defined in XPP, the TN Organisation is responsible to provide a sufficient salary that will allow the intern to live in the country and cover their basic expenses including accommodation, food, transportation, and basic reception activities for the duration of the internship. The organisation may provide this compensation in nonmonetary format (such as offering lodging and food instead of a salary) provided this is indicated clearly in the signed Job Questionnaire.

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