Alumni Mentor Program starts new Round 2023/24 – call for participation!

AIESEC Alumni Poland is looking for other national AIESEC Alumni associations to run the next edition of our award-winning international Alumni Mentor program together!

1st edition of Alumni Mentor took place in 2020/2021 solely in Poland, in cooperation with a people development company Kingmakers (run by AIESEC Alumni). After that we run 2 more international editions, involving SwedenUAERussiaHungaryCroatiaBelgiumCzechiaSlovakia! At European Regional Alumni Conference 2023 in Naples our program was awarded for international alumni cooperation by AIESEC Alumni Europe! Now we’re looking for more partner associations to join us in edition 2023/24!

Alumni Mentor Program

Why should your AIESEC Alumni association participate in Alumni Mentor?

  • Create a positive impact on your environment.
  • Provide a high-quality, amazing development experience to your members.
  • Promote your association and also gain new members – hanks to Alumni Mentor the membership base of AIESEC Alumni Poland tripled!

The quality of the Alumni Mentor program is ensured by:

  • Recruitment of mentors and mentees based on maturity – we are verifying application forms, checking the motivation of mentor and mentee candidates and assess their suitability for mentoring
  • Matching process – based on background, preferences and profiles described in application forms but also on LinkedIn
  • Training program for mentors and mentees – our partner Kingmakers will deliver 3 professional trainings to mentors and 1 training for mentees
  • Progress tracking of meetings because we check if the pairs really meet and work
  • Evaluations – we monitor the quality of the program, in particular, through mid-term evaluations and react if needed

Key assumptions:

  • Participants (mentors and mentees) can choose if they would like to work in mixed (international) or local pairs (native language).
  • Kingmakers is the strategic partner of the program on an international level.
  • The executive board of the AIESEC Alumni Poland will appoint a person for the International coordination.
  • Each participating national Alumni association will appoint one national coordinator who will hence organise the program on the national level.
  • Key events happen within the same timeframes and dates. All participants will join key meetings in English (especially training for mentors and mentees).
  • Only formal members of the national AIESEC Alumni associations can participate in the program meaning both mentors and mentees need to be members. Of course, each association can define its criteria for formal membership.
  • Generally, key materials like application forms, evaluation surveys, mentoring contracts are unified on the international level and will be in English.
  • We will assign mentor-mentee matching on the global level in cooperation with Kingmakers while national coordinators will participate and can provide suggestions for matching of participants coming from their countries.

Responsibilities

International coordinatorNational coordinators
– Timeframes.
– Application forms.
– Trainings for mentors and mentees.
– Mentor-mentee matching.
– Meta-mentoring sessions.
– Evaluation surveys.
– Promotion on the national level.
– Participation in matching.
– Tracking the progress of the mentoring process in pairs where the mentee comes from their country.
– Handling participants’ cases that require attention on the national level.

Timeframes

September 2023– Setup of cooperation among national AIESEC Alumni associations
– Recruitment of national coordinators
October 2023– Firstly, preparation of global templates for promotion materials
– Secondly, preparation of application forms
– Lastly, preparation of final local promotion materials
November 2023– Recruitment of mentors & mentees
– Global mandatory trainings for mentors and mentees across all countries
– Mentor-mentee matching
December 2023 – April 2024– Actual mentoring sessions
– Evaluation surveys/checkpoint such as which pairs are active (March)
– Mid-term global training for mentors (March)
– Meta-mentoring sessions for mentors (March)
May 2024– Final global training for mentors
– Final global evaluation surveys
June 2024– Global Closure Ceremony
– Certificates for mentors

Next steps

lastly, if your national AIESEC Alumni association is interested or has questions, please write to marek(at) aiesec-alumni.pl and start looking for the national coordinator!

Follow us also on LinkedIn to get the latest updates about AIESEC Alumni Mentor!

StepUp Conference 2017

In Mid-November, 20 leaders from 9 European countries met in London, UK, for the StepUp conference of AIESEC Alumni Europe. The goal was to get-to-know each other, work on the planning of the NAAs and decide on the new Alumni Theme Programme.
The delegates arrived on Friday and enjoyed great discussions during drinks and dinner. This continued Saturday evening with a Warehouse Party with several more alumni from London.
After an introduction on Saturday morning, the countries worked on their planning and presented the highlights to group: more members, more activities, more impact. Among the event highlights for 2018 are
  • the WU Ball by AAAustria (13 January 2018),
  • the ERAC & National Alumni Conference by AABulgaria (10-13 May 2018)
  • the AIESEC & Alumni Rhine Cruise by AAGermany (28-30 September 2018),
  • the WOWcheWeekend by AAItaly ( May 2018) and
  • the International Start Up Meeting by AAUK (9 June 2018).
The afternoon was dedicated to the Alumni Theme Programme (ATP). In the past two years, a handful of projects took place in Austria, Germany and Italy to the theme „Intercultural collaboration – through education and sustainable economy“. After the theme was closed, the new ATP Manager Angelique Russo presented different projects linked to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and presented the results of a survey on the goals. AIESEC Alumni care most about SDG#4 „Quality Education“, SDG#16 „Peace and Justice“ and SDG#1 „No Poverty“.
Angelique Russo – ATP Manager
The discussion on a new theme lasted for several hours and in the end the participants chose „Break out of the Routine“ as the new Alumni Theme Programme. AAE says that “we have a positive impact on the world by continuously improving ourselves, our society and our environment. We challenge the status quo. Our actions are meaningful and we change our perspective.  We give back our knowledge and experiences to leverage the network. With our contribution we inspire youth AIESEC, AIESEC Alumni and the communities in Europe.“

$ 1 billion in change

Have you ever heard about crowdfunding? Crowdfunding is commonly defined as the practice of funding a project or venture by raising monetary contributions from a large number of people.
In this article we will focus on the lending-based model, known also as microfinance, and especially on the Kiva platform.

Kiva was founded in 2005 by a group of passionate people aiming to change the world by alleviating poverty. It is based in San Francisco (California, United States) and has offices in Nairobi (Kenya).

How does it work?

Joining kiva is free and each member could loan a variable amount, starting from $ 25,00, to a choosen project. You can browse all the project posted on Kive and decide which one you want to lend to.

Two kind of loans are available: partner loans (in 80 countries) and direct loans (US only).
Most partner loans do involve borrowers paying the Field Partner some interest, because of the high cost of providing small loans in rural areas and developing markets.

When the loan is repayed (the borrower repays the field partner and the filed partner reapys kiva, then kiva repays you) you will receive your money back to your kiva account and you can decide to lend it to another project or to transfer the amount to your paypal account.

AIESEC is part of the change

AIESEC Alumni and members have created a lending team on Kiva and we encourage you to join us.
Since its creation on the 7th of September 2008 the AIESEC lending team counts 215 members, % 219,375.00 loaned, 8,333 loans ans 38.8 loans per member. The total amount loaned through kiva is $ 999,419,625… on the way to the  1 billion milestone.

We want increase our impact and help kiva reach $ 1 billion in change. Join the AIESEC team on Kiva today, be a part of that change!

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