Contact an Alumni Association in your Country
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If you are an alumni association leader, and you do not see your
alumni association listed below, please contact AIESEC International at:
alumni@ai.aiesec.org and
provide us with your association's website (if applicable) and e-mail for contacts.
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Starting an Alumni Association
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If you would like to start an AIESEC Alumni Association you are
welcome to do so.
The first step we encourage you to take is to get in contact with
AIESEC in your country and work with them on designing the structure.
As a second step, we encourage you to follow the Alumni Association
Principles (you can find them below), which AIESEC has officially adopted. The purpose of having
principles which guide interaction between AIESEC and alumni associations is to ensure that
activities of these bodies strengthen AIESEC for mutual benefit
Alumni Association Principles
These simple principles lay out the way in which AIESEC would like to
cooperate with AIESEC alumni associations all over the world to generate mutual benefit for both
AIESEC members and AIESEC alumni.
AIESEC recognizes the immense potential of a strong global network of alumni, which
reinforces AIESEC’s global brand , provides diverse services to alumni , and keeps close links of
cooperation with AIESEC.
It is AIESEC’s desire and firm commitment to foster mutual cooperation to the best of our
ability to provide a truly global platform for life to anyone who has been a member of
AIESEC.
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Strengthening the AIESEC way
AIESEC alumni associations recognize and engage in activities that are aligned with
the AIESEC Way.
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Strengthening AIESEC’s brand
AIESEC alumni associations actively support the AIESEC brand by following the legal
obligations with regards to the use of the AIESEC trademark.
As per section 5.10 of the International Compendium, Member Committees are responsible for
the appropriate use of the trademark in their country/territory. Specifically paragraph
5.10.8: "All AIESEC entities that have a license permission to use the AIESEC trademark have
the right to give usage permission of such to external entities within their geographical area of
responsibility. By giving this permission, they also have the responsibility to ensure that it is
used in the proper way."
AIESEC alumni associations thus have to seek permission from the Member Committee of a given
country/territory to set up and register the association. If an AIESEC alumni association decides
to organize publicly announced events in a country/territory other than the one it is
registered in, it will equally have to inform the Member Committee of said activities.
Benefits from and objectives of this approach are the strengthening of the AIESEC brand for
the mutual benefit of AIESEC and AIESEC alumni.
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Recognition and implementation of AIESEC’s Code of Ethics
AIESEC alumni associations actively work with the code of ethics implemented by AIESEC
(viewing the code of ethics requires MyAIESEC.net login)
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Mutual representation in boards
In order to foster deep cooperation and collaboration between AIESEC and alumni
associations, Member Committees should have representation in the steering and decision making body
of the alumni association, while alumni associations should have their own representative in the
advisory/supervisory board of the given AIESEC Member Committee.
Please note that the principles as they stand today do not include
guidelines about how alumni associations should be established and registered in different
countries. This is a topic that each alumni association and AIESEC in the relevant
country/territory will have to work out based on national legislation.
For more information, contact AIESEC International at:
alumni@ai.aiesec.org
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