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Get Ready 2011

Shortly after the Local Motivation Seminar LMS’11, AIESEC University has participated to the first annually national seminar, The Get Ready’11, which was marked this year with a huge participation from the other 8 Local Committees in Tunisia and an Algerian Delegation: the total number of participants was over 700! Something never seen in AIESEC Tunisia so far.

On site, after the Roll-Colls, the introduction of the Chair and the Facilitators’ team, the sessions of hard work started: there was very much to do and little time. The sessions were centered on the personal development, self-improvement and involvement in the community for the new members, for the oldies a parallel agenda was programed to deepen their training and discussions were held over many technical issues like conflict management and emotional intelligence.

AIESEC University participated in the event with over 80 delegates who represented well their Local Committee during the workshops and in terms of discipline and assiduity, the seminar was also a good occasion for the members to know each other better and establish a good team spirit that we hope will last even after this mandate.

What marked the event was a simulation during the stress management course for the Newbies where the Faci team simulated a very stressful situation: a military takeover in the country, the least that we could say is that the participants had to learn how to manage their stress the hard way! And it was a very useful initiative, because during the closing day, bad weather conditions and flooding made it impossible for the majority of the participants to go home, so they had to stay an extra night in the hotel, and despite the relatively bad conditions, the AIESECers managed to spend it in a good atmosphere.

Local Motivation Seminar 2011 - LMS'11

Have you ever been questioning yourself if there is any way to become an active change agent in society? The answer is what you wish for: yes, it is possible, and one way to do that, is by integrating the biggest youth organization in the world: AIESEC.

Faithful to its traditions, the local committee AIESEC University welcomed its new members by organizing the LMS (Local Motivation Seminar), which was held the 15 and the 16 of October to introduce them to the concept of the organization: the AIESEC way and even more. 115 delegates were present at the event, including 87 new members.

We chose to pay tribute during the seminar to Steve JOBS namely the creator of APPLE and PIXAR, who left this world the 5^th October 2011 and was the perfect embodiment of the change agent, who’s journey in life did not leave the world indifferent.

The conferences and workshops this time did not only go around the AIESEC way, but beyond that, it concerned the personal development of the participants, and stimulated them to go deep within themselves through interesting conferences and animated circles of discussions around many subjects, such as :communication, personality tests, time management and even more. Of course, this wouldn’t be easy to accomplish without the great Facilitators team who did big efforts to make a success of the event and the alumni who enriched the sessions with their experience.

What marked the seminar was the energy of the new members who interacted well with the different activities and showed real interest in the organization and a promising potential that will make us even more passionate and eager to undertake more challenging activities to reach their expectations.

Vivez une expérience passionnante en Inde !

Ne ratez pas la chance de vivre une expérience exceptionnelle en Inde et réaffirmer l’image de la Tunisie en la représentant de la meilleure façon possible !!

Jaipur, surnommée la ville rose, est la capitale de l’état Indien Rajasthan. Elle est la 7ème plus belle ville d’Asie.

Dans le cadre d’un partenariat avec AIESEC University, AIESEC Jaipur organise 2 projets humanitaires cet été « Synergy » et « Genesis ».

L’objectif principal de ces projets est d‘aider les étudiants à faire face aux problèmes que connait leurs société en partageant leurs expériences, en effet les étudiants sont généralement conscients de ce qui ne va pas mais ne trouvent pas toujours les solutions adéquates et c’est grâce à ce genre d’expériences internationales qu’offre AIESEC que ce sera possible.

Durant ces 2 projets qui se tiendront du 15 juillet au 4 septembre 2011, les stagiaires devront entrer en contact avec plusieurs Organisations Non Gouvernementales (ONG).

*Synergy : Lors de ce projet multiculturel les stagiaires visiteront des ONG et devront faire des présentations sur les problématiques d’actualité à des étudiants venu de différents pays du monde, ils assisteront à des conférences de grande envergure et au « Global Village » qui est une grande manifestation culturelle rassemblant des étudiants des plusieurs nationalités.

*Genesis : Lors du projet Genesis, les stagiaires recevront des formations à propos du VIH/SIDA, ils devront par conséquent planifier et gérer des ateliers dans plusieurs établissements à propos de cette même problématique afin de sensibiliser les étudiants à Jaipur et les pousser à agir à bon escient. Ils auront à négocier avec des ONGs pour une éventuelle collaboration avec AIESEC dans le cadre d’activités d’apprentissage sur le sujet en question. Les stagiaires participeront au « Global Village » cité précédemment.

Il est a noté que le stagiaire disposera, pour les deux projets cités précédemment de :

o Son propre espace de travail, d’un ordinateur et d’une connexion à Internet.

o Logement gratuit fourni par AIESEC Jaipur

Pour plus de détails vous pouvez télécharger les documents à propos du projet Synergy ici et du projet Genesis ici.
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Tu'nisian Leadership Developement Seminar 2011 (Tu'LDS 2011)

Tu’LDS 2011 was the last national seminar for this term it was also a great one so we thought that there is no bettre way to show you that than to have testimonies from people who assisted to the conference and contributed to its success as facilitator or as delegate.

First of all we start with Ghassen Dridi, National Information Management and Alumni Relations Manager:

"TuLDS 2011 was my last seminar after years of being an active member of AIESEC in Tunisia. We tried as facilitator team to deliver the right message to our audience composed by AIESEC and non AIESEC members in these special circumstances Tunisia is leaving.
After years of starting the Tunisian Leadership Development Seminar, AIESEC in Tunisia chose the slogan " Act Now" to the 2011 edition.
We hope to see the impact of this seminar and of our whole process on the current youth generation."

We also received a word from the algerian delagation that we wanted to share with you:

"Here comes the end of an amazing adventure, once upon a time an Algerian delegation went to Bizerte to attend the Tunisian Leadership Development Seminar2011.
For the third time we are present at the Tu’LDS, as we exist only since 2008 we didn’t miss any of them and we are so happy to see each time the number of delegates increasing and the welcoming being more friendly.
This was the first international conference for many of our members and newbie’s and that couldn’t be better such an amazing team who did the best job ever to organize such an event, unforgettable moments, excellent participants , and so skilled FACI’s, well organized in an international atmosphere we wonder if it could never last. No better place to discover the leadership, develop our communication skills, being part of a multi cultural team.
Now back home we are all full of energy, motivation and commitment and ready to take our position and leadership roles and start working effectively for a better tomorrow.
Once again congratulations to AIESEC Tunisia , especially LC University for the huge efforts made to make it happen we won a lot even if we are already missing you all we keep thinking about next time we’ll meet.
Get ready is not too far when we think about it :)
Greeting from Algeria"

We also received a testimony form Fatma Toumi, LC Bardo:

"Tu’LDS 2011 wasn’t my first national conference but it was the one which had the deepest impact on me. The sessions during the first 2 days were too long to get all my attention but in the last 2 days, the chair of the conference told us that we will find solutions for two of our partners. And when I said “we” I meant AIESECers as students, we were asked to help the society with our creativity. Isn’t it one of the definitions of a change agent ? we said “AIESEC is people” it means AIESEC is a network of people. But there, in the Tu’LDS, we were building a network of changing agents and some of them had a beautiful vision of our world and they wanted us to follow them. Those leaders will lead this network of changing agents to make the world better. And one of the various way to make all this happen is to attend the Tu’LDS."

Finaly we want to thank everyone who contibuted to make Tu'LDS 2011 such a great seminar and thanks to Ghassen, Fatma and of course the Algerian delagation !

Hope to see all of you In Get Ready 2011 !!

NatCo 2011

One of the most important conferences in AIESEC in Tunsia is the NatCo (National Conference).

NatCo 2011 was organized by Local Committee Thyna held in Miramar Golf Hotel in Sousse from 3/3/2011 to 6/3/2011.

It was the first AIESEC event after the Tunisian revolution which made the 1^st day of the seminar include sessions named “2011”mostly marked by the role of AIESEC before and during the revolution, and we thought about analyzing the present situation of Tunisia and its consequences on our activities.

It’s important to remind that AIESEC has always been a non-political organization and always working on bringing peace to the whole world and dealing with global issues and it will always be the same.

In the morning of the 2^nd day we had functional tracks, sessions discussing about our problems, potential solutions and these sessions were dedicated to every department and most feedbacks about these sessions were positive considering that we have come out with new approaches, and solutions.

The 2^nd part of the day was devoted to our 8 LCs then the MC for their presentations of both moral and financial report, after every presentation, a period of time was allowed to questions from the national plenary.

The session which allowed us to be creative and inspired was in the 3^rd day and it was named ‘2015’ it was about AIESEC Tunisia 2015 vision, the main idea was to list things that we should get rid of and others that we want to keep, develop or insert in order to evolve.

AIESEC Alumni Tunisia is a national organization which brings together Tunisian Alumni and we had the chance to meet some of them during the conference and to know about their organization when they presented it.

We had a legislation track to discuss possible changes of the laws in order to improve conditions of our activities and resolve issues that haven’t been yet, but we can’t talk about legislation without getting into elections.

The Saturday night was marked by the elections during which Radhouen Mejri an MCP (Member Committee President) candidate wasn’t elected unfortunately for him, but we can’t tell the same for Houssem Masmoudi the candidate to Member Committee of Incoming Exchange.

Of course every candidate had to do a speech then answer the national plenary questions but it’s neither easy nor evident to convince, anyway hard luck to Mr Radhouen and we hope this mischance won’t discourage him and we also congratulate Mr Houssem for being elected and we wish him good luck in this new experience.

Sunday was the last day of the conference, the alumni

Wahb Zouid facilitated a session about negociation skills and external relationships, during the afternoon the national plenary voted for some new rules, against some others, we hope these procedures help AIESEC Tunisia to progress

The NatCo 2011 was the first event of the year and especially after the pure Tunisian revolution, it was a good opportunity to define AIESEC’s position in all this and after the rebirth of Tunisia, it was a wonderful experience too that every AIESEC’er should live.

INCREDIBLE INDIA

Mohamed Arby Ghemari, 23 years, shares his AIESEC experience with us.

In June 2010 I boarded a flight to India without knowing what would meet me on the other side. I spent four months interning as a linguistic consultant at Jain Heritage International (JGI), a Cambridge School in Hyderabad.

Working at Jain Heritage International is one of the best working experiences I ever had.
I really enjoyed every single day working with my students who are sociable, cheerful, smart and so Talkative!!

At work, I was feeding my curiosity, my desire to learn, and my analytical skills. My students were so eager to learn about foreign cultures. Having melting pot classrooms helped me too because I also discovered the Korean and Chinese cultures. My Korean students who were living in Hyderabad for a while helped me understand more the Indian Culture.

I'm really Thankful to all the teachers and especially to Principal MAM who welcomed me like I Was a member of JGI's family and who were always ready to help me. My Indian colleagues showed me incredibly warm hospitality by welcoming me into their homes. Their lives were simple, but they were really generous with me, even though I had no way to repay them.
I never thought that I'll have such an amazing experience and unforgettable moments in an incredible country as India. How amazing is the culture and the spirit of these people!! ! !

One of the greatest things in this experience is the fact of meeting other trainees from all over the world and sharing with them my experience. I had such a great time with my flatmates and the other trainees: we had parties every week, trips almost every weekend. I lived in a house with six other international trainees. We became a multicultural family. We learned to compromise when there was conflict, and to support each other when we were having difficulties understanding our new jobs and our new culture. We would trade off cooking our national dishes, which allowed me to practice the skills I learned during my courses at the culinary school for restaurant management in Tunis. I also had the chance to visit a lot of places with my friends, discovering the beauty of India and its breathtaking monuments and landscapes such as Taj Mahal in Agra, Golden Temple in Amritsar, Hawa Mahal in Jaipur. It’s really amazing to see how from a state to another people change. We can find a different culture, a different language and a different religion, but we’re still in the same country “India“.

I still remember myself standing in front of the Taj mahal, so white and so peaceful and for me, being there in front of it, is one of the best experiences I had in my life, because I never thought I would make it that far ; and I made it thanks to AIESEC. I met new people who became really good friends and I discovered such an unbelievable country. So if you have the chance to go to India you’ll see that for once the word “WOW “will make sense.

I have been a member of AIESEC which is an international student leadership organisation for one year. Returning to Tunisia after my internship I decided to help other students have a chance to experience what I did, that they can live the AIESEC experience. I took a position as the Outgoing Exchange Coordinator inside my local Committee. My job is to find international internships for Tunisian students and supervise the team that works with me.

Hyderabad, the city I was living in, was hosting this last summer the International Congress of AIESEC which was awesome specially the Global Village. The fact of meeting more than 600 Delegates from all over the world was simply astonishing. Every local Committee was managing its own booth where we tasted swiss Cheese, Belgium Chocolate and traditional Chinese Biscuits. I think that the International Congress is one of the most important events in the life of an AIESEC member and I think that I was lucky to be there when India was hosting It.

For the future Exchange participants, visiting India would be such an incredible eye opening and also an adventurous experience. It would make you awake of the daring aspects of your personality, the ones you had no idea existed. The Indian’s spirit will make you more open and more sincere, while the different Indian festivals will give you a chance and an excuse to have fun and to do juvenile things you could never do back home.

Like me you’ll get to see a lot of breathtaking, historically significant places situated in unrealistically magnificent landscapes and the joy they give you will be hard to take in. You will feel as if your feet are off the ground. However, in order to truly understand the place, you have to be willing to get out of your comfort zone, and eventually you will come to love it.

My time in India helped me to realize that I am passionate about people, new cultures, and working with children who are the future generation of their country. It also opened my eyes to see how things in my own country could change to give our youth a broader view of the world and give them a better chance in a world that is becoming more and more globalized.

I'll have India always in my heart as the first Asian country I have visited.

Hope that my experience will inspire, motivate and encourage other people to live the AIESEC experience which I promise will be unbelievable and incredibly fabulous.

Best Regards

Ghemari Med Arby (TUNISIA)

Tunisia, paradise of the French Offshore

Tunisian revolution is neither digital nor jasmine, it is real, born from the pain and blood of the martyrs. Certainly, ICT has been important, but Beyond the virtual, we deplore the loss of life, and offer our sincere condolences to the families of victims.

At this stage of events, I think the worst is behind us.In Tunisia, there is neither Shia nor Christians nor Kurds, the risk of civil war is zero. The Tunisians have a sense of responsibility, and have learned to turn a crisis into an opportunity, which would be this time, intimately linked to IT development, computer services and nearshore in order to generate a significant number of jobs for graduates.

To better understand the Tunisian context, I would pick up the threads of its modern and prestigious history. Tunisia was the first Arab country to abolish slavery and polygamy, to adopt a constitution, to give the right of vote to women, and now the first country whose people had courageously taken their destiny in hand to create conditions to build the first real democracy in the Arab world [manifesto for a new start in Tunisia].

Thus, the Tunisian economy presents with green indicators, which will be strengthened by these three major changes in public space:

1 - The newfound freedom and transparency anchored will quickly enable Tunisia to enjoy an excellent business climate in order to drain the ideas and facilitate the establishment of multinationals who fled the racket organized by the former regime .

2 - The release of the locks on the administration of single party (and its transformation into Service Oriented Administration) will improve the quality of services to citizens and economic agents, and maintain the most competitive costs in the Euro- Mediterranean.Several large sites blocked by the vultures of the Ben Ali clan will be relaunched (CNAM Map, National Biometric Map, SIHR, rebuild of the Information System of CNSS, Trade Register ...), and will boost the internal market for IT services.

3 - The ownership by the people of his business by setting up a Citizen Oriented Government, will read and understand the studies agree on the fact that IT services and nearshore are a strategic development in Tunisia's economy and offer great potential for creating jobs for graduates.

Tunisia has no oil, but has educated youth and graduated with a quality level comparable to that of Western Europe with 60 000 new multilingual graduates per year (61% women), more than 20 000 engineers and scientists (including over 9,500 IT graduates) for a population of 10 million.

The new Tunisia will benefit from offshoring industry already flourishing with 25,000 posts.Among firms already operating in Tunisia: ADP, Sagem, Orange, STMicroelectronics, Altcatel, LG, Teleperformance, Fidelity / HRAccess, Sungard, Cisco / GlTrade, HP, Stream, Altran, Linedata, Cassiopae, Aedian, etc...Tunisian Offshoring has an excellent track record and is in the register of the best cost.

Remember that Europe is just emerging from its crisis and has great potential for offshore: it represents only 4.8% of the market for software and services in France (10 to 15% goes towards the Maghreb , according to the firm CAP), against 20% in Great Britain and the United States.

With 26% French speakers among population, according to the International Organisation of Francophonie (compared to 13% in Morocco, 8% in Romania and 1% in Egypt), Tunisia is fastly becoming the new Paradise of Francophone Offshore (centers of development services, TMA, outsourcing, Business Process Outsourcing BPO...).

Tunisian revolution offers Europe, wich has been partisan of the Ben Ali politic for a long time, and who confused diplomacy and abetting, the opportunity to redeem themselves by supporting the freedom of Tunisian people, and invest heavily in a "useful neashore" beyond simple call centers with very low added value.

Thus, beyond the negative impact of the crisis, some call centers (whose consequences are less serious than a flood of the Seine would have generated on the Paris economy), the already flourishing nearshore Tunisian industry will be reinforced in the register of added value to offer more jobs to graduates in Tunisia.With a predominantly educated and prospects for introduction of a Citizen Oriented Government, Tunisia is certainly the new Paradise of French offshore.

Khaled Ben Driss - Technical director, Oxia.

[Source: www.journaldunet.com ]