December2012

Allocations

Members Devellopement

25th Anniversary

MiscillanousTunisian Abroad

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Monthly Newsletter December 2012

25th Anniversary11 November 1987 was the day when a Local Committee called University saw the light to be the Factory of Leaders in FSEGTunis within Campus El Manar in Tunisia. 25 years passed... 25 years to celebrate... 25 years of Excellence & Glory...........To reunite in one big historical night.A quarter of century, not just time, but hard work dedication, love and engagement toward one family "University" a part of a big one "AIESEC". That night was the 14th of December 2012 when many generations of leaders created by AIESEC University were gathered in the same place to share their love for the same entity. That night were awards were given to some Alumni in recognition to their efforts, support, help and engegement toward the Local Committee AIESEC University. In addition, AIESEC University received an award from The Tunisian Red Crescent - Committee of Ariana for the collaboration that they both made in July-August 2012 in the project Koffet Ramadhan with 18 EPs. The night was so warm with the love spread in the air among the Alumni and the new generation of AIESEC University, dancing roll calls together, singing some old songs about the LC together and sharing stories of success and failure. And the Local Committee was honored to welcome some of the LCPs and the MCP of AIESEC Tunisia to attend and congratulate the LC for the anniversary

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Monthly Newsletter December 2012Allocations

After the allocations of 8 members to the positions of Organizing Committee Presidents for the 8 projects, it was time to allocate the rest of the team member of the projects.So, interviews for the positions open in the projects were made in order to allocate each member to a position that suites him/her better for skills, professional and personal developement during the plannification and the realisation of those projects.The interviews were conducted by the Vice Presidents of the Local Committees with the presence of the Organizing Committees Presidents of the projects to give their own opinion about the member in question.The 8 projects:Business to Youth, Lead the Leaders, Mobing Week 2.0, Impact Tunisia, Summer Camp, Green Rebirth, ULDS andcontains members in charge of External Relations, Communication, Finance, Events, Product Developement, InComing eXchange Responsible.The allocation didn’t stop in the phase of projects only, but the structure of the Local Committee is now so rich with the Support Teams for each Departement.So we conducted also interviews in the same time for positions open in the support teams.The Local Support Teams are:- OutGoing eXchange Support Team This team is responsible of the raise of the eXchange Participants and to conduct Compaigns in the universities.- OutGoing eXchange Task Force This team is responsible of the step after the search of the eXchange Participants. They look for suitable Internships for the eXchange Participants.- Reception Team As the name reveals it, this team is responsible of the servicing and the reception of eXchange Participants that we recieve.- InComing eXchange Support Team For the job description of this team, it is mainly about the search for new opportunities in companies and organisation to recieve new eXchange Participants

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Monthly Newsletter December 2012Members Developpement

Key Area Day

BrandingFinancial ManagementLocal Train the Trainer

It’s a full day Agenda made by Wael Ben Romdhane, Houssem Bargaoui and Mehdi Loukil to trainour members on negociation and sales and preceded by some sessions with the Vice Presidentsto discuss what’s not clear for the members in each key area.

Presented by Faycel Terzi - Alumnus of AIESEC Local Committee Medina

Presented by Khouloud Ben Abid - Vice President Finance

This initiative made by AIESEC University to the old members including the vice presidents to trainfuture facilitators and future trainers. This event started in the month of december and will continueon seven sessions held by Ahmed El Mejri Alumnus of AIESEC University.

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Monthly Newsletter December 2012Tunisian Abroad

It was in Poland, a GIP, in teaching languages. Though I was simply a computer science engineering student I took the challenge; why? Because I'm Tunisian and Tunisians use to speak three languages; Arabic, French and English and I thought: I will be teaching at least one of them and I'll do it greatly.I got the response to my email from AIESEC local committee Poznan and then was accepted after an interview on Skype. The adventure started for me.I was in Europe before; once in Paris with my family, once in Spain with friends, once in Belgium with the music school so I thought: "Ok, I already know Europe but I hope the experience will still be good".What I should have known is that Poland is not in Western Europe, nor in Eastern; Poland is a Central European country, as Czech republic. The language was "Polish" which sounds more like an Asian language for those who are not used to the Slavic languages with a lot of "sh" sounds.So here I am, after two planes and one train, I was in Poznan. The reception team was composed by two girls and one boy and from the first contact, you could see how much those people were warm and friendly. Yet, you are in Europe not in North Africa or the Middle East and people there use to be cold. It is maybe the case in most of the Western European countries but not really the case in Poland.Then, we walked a while until we reach what would be my flat. At my big surprise, even though the accommodation was provided, the flat was perfect (later, when I was describing it to my friends, I said that it was even better than our house so much I was satisfied with). Three rooms, two double, one single, but all of them, so huge. The place of the flat was near the cheapest supermarket in Poland which was Biedronka and was also near to the bus and tram station.First week, the Spanish arrived, the Ukrainian and later on, the German. We were a real team, working all together in the flat. First, we were preparing the cultural week; yet we didn't have that much students attending it but we felt having so much passion doing it;

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Monthly Newsletter December 2012I had for the first time the opportunity to speak about my country (Tunisia) to foreigners who (like most of them) (if they knew about it) just have some touristic knowledge and some prejudice gotten from the media (and we can't blame them for that). They didn't knew about the history of Tunisia, about the Berber origins, about the spread of Islam, about the French colonization and so on. Beyond the "study" part of the presentation, I also had the opportunity to teach them a song, and wearing my Jebba and Chechia (traditional Tunisian clothes) and playing with my Oud (Arabic musical instrument), they were all following me, with all the cheerfulness and we could feel that we were speaking all the same language. Through presentation, singing, and later dancing with the Spanish exchange participant and using the chopsticks with the Chinese one, we were discovering each other culture and we added to that so many games that were organized by some other AIESECers who were responsible about our project. Of course, we also had the opportunity to discover the place we were living at, and as the internship started on June 2012, we went to the fan zone in Poznan, where thousands of football fans were supporting their favorite team; we were all together watching the finals in which Spain was the winner and we congratulated our Spanish exchange participant Juanlu that day. Second week, the work started. As we were teaching students on the same age than us, all our classes took place on the afternoon, for that the majority of the students in Poland use to work on summer. So me, the Spanish and the Ukrainian, before going to the language school on the afternoon, use to spend the whole morning together on the house working on the subject we were about to teach. Most of the time, each one was working on his own; but then, when the work was done, we were asking the opinions of the others, asking about pedagogical issues and about past experiences and though I was a computer since student (and in my case, the language subject should not be a matter), I was really enlarging my knowledge about pedagogy, about teaching languages, about understanding and interpreting information and for me, this cannot be dissociated from the computer science engineering which includes the subject of logics and the artificial intelligence which works on the principals of the "how" your mind works to react vis-à-vis the information.

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Then, we were teaching during the afternoon and sometimes, attending each other classes,learning from the others and criticizing them in the same time. It was a really good exchange experience. (Sometimes, we were even leaving the classrooms and teaching in the park, trying tofind each time, an idea more innovative to be more efficient when teaching.)My astonishment then, was that the local committee of AIESEC was organizing some parties in which both of us and our students were taking part. So the pedagogical experience, though its professional side, was also including the "fun" one, and it reminded me so well of the "enjoying participation" value of AIESEC. In those parties, most of the time, we were just having good time, forgetting about the classes; my French students, though, liked so much using their French because, as in the rest part of the world, they believe that French is one of the most romantic languages (to not say the most romantic one). And concerning my Arabic students (because I also taught Arabic!) we were just working on the alphabet and on the pronunciation, so you cannot say that we could really communicate in Arabic.In one of the weekends, we also had the opportunity to attend an AIESEC conference in Torun, a charming little town not too far from Bydgoszcz, one of the biggest cities in Poland. The AIESEC conference was like the Tunisian one or all the other around the world and yet I didn't attend all of it because I preferred on that day exploring the town. So they just called the police to inform them about my disappearance since my mobile phone on that day was dead! I do keep good souvenirs from that day.In one of the other weekends, I also experienced the Polish "autostop" (hitchhiking) which really has nothing to do with the Tunisian one since most of the cars there have their own radio that they can use to communicate and prevent each other when there is a police (using the secret word "bear") or a radar (using the secret word "hair-dyer") or to say to other cars that they are having a tourist next to them (which was me) and asking if they can take me to my final destination (which was Gdansk).Finally, I will not forget one of the most important side of the experience; friendship. I got to know with a Spanish guy, a Ukrainian girl, Polish ones, a Turkish guy and a German and each one of these people were exceptional, as a human being, as a representative of his culture and as a friend.One of the best experience in my life on both professional side and human one.

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Monthly Newsletter December 2012Miscillanous

AIESEC University Numbers

recognition to

Upcoming* The National Conference 2013

AIESEC University recognition of this month goes to the Alumni that helped in thedevellopement of our members through the training courses and key area day.

TMP: 161 Raised, 161 Matched, 151 RealisedTLP: 34 Raised, 34 Matched, 28 Realised InComing GCDP: 3 Raised, 4 Matched, 0 RealisedInComing GIP: 1 Raised, 1 Matched, 0 RealisedOutGoing GCDP: 1 raised, 3 Matched, 1 Realised OutGoing GIP: 21 Raised, 4 Matched, 3 Realised

Executive Board 12-13

Ahmed Mejri Wael Ben Romdhane Houssem Bargaoui Mahdi Loukil

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