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Press KitRotterdam, Nederlands – November 24, 2005
Last week, AIESEC, the world’s largest student organization, was awarded with the Media-Tenor Special Award at the Sixth Annual International Agenda Setting Conference in Lugano, Switzerland.
Matthias Vollbracht, Executive Director of Media-Tenor, who comments, presented the award, “We give this award to an organization we feel has been relevant in tackling issues but does not get enough credit in the media. For this, Media-Tenor extends the award by providing one year free consultancy to this organization to help them gain media visibility for the work they are doing around the globe.”
“Over the past 57 years of existence, AIESEC has constantly evolved its values, activities and processes to ensure our relevance in building the leaders the world requires.” says Abhinav Gupta, Communications Manager on AIESEC International. “Even today, AIESEC is carrying out various activities that are ensuring that it’s creating more impact in more places.”
Today, AIESEC’s biggest focuses include :
1. Expansion into the Middle East – in order to give youth the opportunity to develop themselves using the AIESEC international platform, AIESEC is expanding its borders to reach out to the Middle East . Recently AIESEC extended membership to Afghanistan, Pakistan and the UAE and this year is looking at 6 more countries joining the network.
2. Empowering Africa – by using AIESEC’s resources around the world to develop the youth in Africa and set up programs that directly affect the lives of these youth, such as the fight against HIV/AIDS.
3. Globally connecting youth on hot topics – to enhance their understanding and work to gain experience within the areas of Energy, Finance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Education and HIV/AIDS.
Media Tenor presents its special award to an institution whose work represents a great contribution to society and public life but is not represented adequately as it deserves in opinion-leading media. The first award was presented to AIDS Orphans, followed by Transparency International and Amnesty International.
T he Media Tenor Institute for Media Content Analysis is the world‘s leading provider of international media content analysis on a continuous and wide-ranging basis.
AIESEC is the international platform for young people to discover and develop their potential for a positive impact on society. Present in over 90 countries and engaging over 20,000 members, AIESEC offers 3000 leadership opportunities to young people each year to develop their leadership potential by running AIESEC’s Global Internship Program, which sees over 3500 students and recent graduates live and work abroad each year.