Located in over 110 countries, 1100 universities, and facilitating the exchange of over 4,000 students on a yearly basis, AIESEC is a vast global network that fosters international internship exchange. Universities with an AIESEC chapter have a team of students who engage with local business communities to contract internship opportunities for foreign students. In addition, each chapter allows for university students to take advantage of internships foreign AIESEC teams have instituted. Each AIESEC chapter is also responsible for welcoming foreign interns, and housing and assisting them during their stay abroad. By allowing for students to run each university chapter, AIESEC aims to give interns an experience with a higher degree of immersion in a foreign culture than traditional exchange programs, in addition to increasing the business and leadership skills of AIESEC members who work with local companies to contract internships.
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Over the course of the summer the Yale team plans to explore the potential to establish a chapter of students to run AIESEC at the National University of Mongolia. During their two month stay in Ulaanbaatar, the team will recruit new students and train them in the responsibilities of a university AIESEC chapter, and how to work with local businesses and the international AIESEC network, so that they can run an AIESEC chapter once it is established. The team has been working closely with Mrs. Altantsetseg, director of the Office of International Affairs at the National University, who has been keen on helping the team promote AIESEC for the university and its students. By August, the Yale team hopes to leave Mongolia with a newly trained team capable of running AIESEC independently.
