AIESEC is a global, non-political, independent, not-for profit voluntary organization run by students and recent graduates of institutions of higher education. It provides young people with leadership development and cross-cultural global internship and volunteer exchange experiences across the globe, with a focus to empower young people so they can make a positive impact on society.  The AIESEC network includes over 100,000 members in 126 countries and territories. It is the largest youth-run organization in the world. It is present in over 124 countries and has a membership of over 100,000 students around the world.

 AIESEC chapters across the globe along with their partners create, facilitate and offer unique leadership experience through international traineeship exchanges. AIESEC operations include Incoming and Out-going Exchanges (ICX and OGX – receiving and sending participants). Each year, AIESEC provides over 10000 members the challenging opportunity to live and work in a foreign country in areas of management, technology, education and development.

AIESEC’s mission is “Peace & Fulfilment of Human kind’s Potential.”

Launched in April 2011, AIESEC PDEU is the AIESEC chapter working out of Pandit Deendayal Energy University - Gandhinagar, Gujarat.

PDEU’s mission is to develop global professionals by providing international educational exchange to the university students and to create visibility of the university in the global educational scenario by collaborating with other reputed institutes and student exchange programs. This makes the AIESEC Chapter in PDEU all the more important. AIESEC provides the ideal platform for the students to experience the cultures, working styles and work ethic on a global scale. A unique cosmopolitan culture and a mission to develop global professionals supported by state of the art infrastructure makes AIESEC ‘The’ platform for PDEU.

Pandit Deendayal Energy University (PDEU) organized the HR Summit on 12th April, 2014 in collaboration with Aiesec, the world's largest student run organization. The summit revolved around the theme of 'Re-defining employability for Gen Y'.

With diversity and inclusion gaining grip on corporate India in recent years, the need to handle a multi-generational workforce has become important for any industry. The speakers at the event included Bhupesh Chowdary, VP, business development, Adani SEZ and Ports, Sahil Nair, president, Aiesec Ahmedabad and Shubhomoy Saha, director, School of Employability at Ethos HR among others. "It is about trusting the young work force; they are technologically very sound and efficient," said Chowdary. Some challenges were shared by Haresh Chaturvedi, zonal HR head, Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages. "The importance of effectively managing a multi-generational workforce has become a challenge. Since India is going to be the youngest country by 2020, it is essential to understand the expectations of youth from the corporate front and vice versa. This will help understand both the generations and achieve a consensus to bridge the talent deficit gap," said Chaturvedi.

Aiesec also conducted a survey, in which it found; scope of growing in the organization was chosen by 95% of the total surveyed; 89% showed affiliation for a job and organization that gives them diverse roles; positive culture and energetic work environment was appreciated by 76% ; 42% said they would opt for a job in which their employers showed trust in them; 34% chose a good brand name and only 21% said they would look for salary and compensation perks in job.

Event Report

Make a Globally Integrated Community

MAGIC powered by AIESEC, had been launched with a vision of establishing Peace and fulfillment of humankind’s potential. MAGIC stands for “make a globally integrated community” and as the name suggests its motive to provide students an international platform to explore their passion and contribute to the society in their own way.

AIESEC hosted 31 interns in PDEU from 10 different countries such as China Taiwan Russia Egypt Indonesia Portugal Poland Costa Rica Ukraine and Kazakhstan under its 6 weeks long internship during 15th July - 20th August, 2014 for project called MAGIC.

The interns worked with different NGOs and Schools learning more about Indian way of living and contributing the society. The four NGOs they visited are: Samvedana, Craftroots , Blind People’s Association, Shashikunj Dance Academy

A mutual sharing of culture took place every evening where interns worked in the student clubs of PDEU namely Sorrisso, photography club;  Video Graphics Association (VGA), student film club;  Offbeat, music club; Soul pepper, dramatics and dance club. Rang and jharokha the art and literary club of PDEU respectively arranged workshops for interns to give the interns a better understanding of India in these fields.

The fifty interns from 15 countries of the world showcased their respective country’s special, unique features. From preparing native delicacies, displaying their country’s souvenirs, putting up posters and beautifully decorated charts with information and facts of their homeland. Global Village finally concluded with the intern’s journey to India.

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Vinni Arya from School of Liberal Studies from School of Liberal Studies, 2012 batch

Project Namaste aimed to promote Internationalization on campus, disbanding of stereotypes, cross cultural understanding and varied cultural exposure to the students. PDEU hosted 29 interns from countries Egypt, Kazakhstan, Morocco, Brazil, Vietnam Mauritius, China, Indonesia, Russia and Oman for one month long duration 1st January to 15th February, 2015.

The project provided interns a chance to experience university life in India alongside witnessing municipal schools at Koba and Kudasan; NGOs - YUVA Unstoppable and Blind People’s Association. The interns of Project NAMASTE worked with Jharokha, Women Cell PDEU, Rang & Grow Cook Eat; which are social and cultural clubs of PDEU. Mythological Story sharing session was conducted by Jharokha, Indian snack cooking workshop by Grow Cook Eat, Indian Prop making workshop by Rang & a formal discussion session by PDEU Women Cell.  

To make the interns feel the essence of the true Indian Culture and to educate them about traditional importance and heritage of Ahmedabad city, trip to Adalaj Step Well, Heritage Walk, Gandhi Ashram was conducted. The interns also participated in celebrating Uttrayan on 14th January, 2015. They spent the whole day enjoying the enthusiastic and lively festival, flying kites.

The Global village in PDEU has always been a landmark event and an identity of the projects that PDEU has hosted so far . Global Village was integrated with yet another large scale event called MUSKAAN wherein 100 underprivileged children from Koba School in Gandhinagar and Samvedna NGO from Ahmedabad participated and had one day of happiness with the interns.

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Archana Bakshi
2013 batch

Project Namaste, the ongoing project is hosting 41 interns from 19 countries - Czech Republic, Kuwait, Egypt, China, Malaysia, Brazil, Mexico, Portugal, Tunisia, Russia, Poland, Kazakhstan, Oman, Netherland, Austria, Italy and Iran.  They will be undergoing a series of activities during their months stay from 5th July 2015 – 20th August 2015.

Project Namaste aims at not only breaking stereotypes but to promote cross cultural understanding which directly leads to personal development. It is not about what the project has to offer, but what one takes back from the experience.

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Jay Sorathia and Alay Thakkar

Project NAMASTE 3.0, one of the flagship projects of the organisation in 2 different phases- starting 25th December, 2015 and 20th January 2016 respectively. The project was aimed towards providing interns a chance to experience University life in India, to implement a research on Global issues and apply it for betterment of our society alongside witnessing some amazing activities to have more creative, memorable experience and a shot at developing oneself for better future. The project ensured interns having an integrated impact and interactions with students of University.

Events like Global Youth Impact, Treasure Hunt, Global Village, India Day, Going Global, Global Youth Parliament, Charity Drive, etc were organised by a dedicated team of University students working for the organisation to enhance the experience of the interns during their stay at the University.

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Pooja Sanandia

Project NAMASTE 4.0 is the 9th project hosted by PDEU & AIESEC in Ahmedabad. AIESEC Incoming Projects in PDEU are hosted with an aim to increase Internationalization on campus, develop leadership skills amongst its students, promote real life learning experiences, disband multi-cultural stereotypes and develop different world perspectives.

Project NAMASTE 4.0 is all about 25 Internationals from 5+ countries interning at PDEU from 15th July, 2016 to 31st August, 2016. NAMASTE 4.0 revolves around the idea of letting the interns experience the University life in India alongside creating an impact on the society. The project supports the following 4 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) from the 17 SDGs proposed by United Nations in September 2015 :

• Quality Education

• No Poverty

• Clean & Affordable Energy

• Good Health & Well Being

The major objective of the project was to conduct case studies on above goals by analyzing the ground realities and then suggesting solutions for problems faced by the society at this juncture. Along with this it also focused on providing interns a life changing experience by getting them out of their comfort zones, giving them space to interact with University and local crowd thereby ensuring a fair deal of cultural exchange and personal development. One of the job description of interns was to work with the University clubs and learn an art of their choice ie. Music , Drama or Dance.

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Ayushi Galundia

Project NAMASTE 5.0 was focused on Sustainable Development Goal No. 4: Quality Education and Cultural Exchange where 34 interns from 16 different countries did cross-cultural exchange for 6 weeks starting from 5th July, 2017 to 17th August, 2017. All the interns participated in various activities and events planned by Team of Project NAMASTE 5.0 at Pandit Deendayal Energy University - Gandhinagar, India.

The aim of the project was to identify the problems faced by the students, teachers and parents associated with the rural schools of Koba & Raisan and analyse on how it can be solved. At the same time interns shared their culture and ideas with the students of the school making them more exposed to the world and creating a culturally diverse mindset to accept the future changes.

Events like Global Village, Cultural Showcase, activities at Induction week of SLS & SOT students, Ame Pan Gujarati activity, Study In India Program (SIP), Debates & Discussions, Yoga Day, Amdavadi Rush, Birthday & Rakshabandhan celebrations, Art workshops, Sugar-cubes ceremony, etc were organised by a dedicated team of University students working for the organisation to enhance the experience of the interns during their stay at the University.

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Varad Thakkar

by AIESEC in Ahmedabad, in collaboration with Pandit Deendayal Energy University was based on United Nations SGD 4 -Quality Education. 31 Interns from 11 different countries had participated in the project from 12th July 2018 to 24th August 2018. They went to different schools and taught basic subjects to kids like health and hygiene, sanitation and environment and some foreign languages. Moreover, they also conducted taking sessions on soft skills like communication skills, presentation skills and workshops about their culture and spread awareness about Education in society.

Global Village and Cultural Showcase, two major events happened during the entire project. The interns also participated in various workshops conducted for them in collaboration with different clubs of the university. They also participated in the International Run organized by AIESEC in Ahmedabad. All the international interns were also invited to the Saputara Monsoon Festival conducted by Gujarat Tourism.

Project Namaste 7.0 by AIESEC in Ahmedabad, in collaboration with Pandit Deendayal Energy University was based on United Nations SGD 4 -Quality Education and SDG 5– Gender Equality. 21 Interns from 7 different countries had participated in the project from 15th July 2019 to 26th August 2019. They went to different schools and taught basic subjects to kids like health and hygiene, sanitation and environment and some foreign languages. Moreover, they also conducted taking sessions on soft skills like communication skills, presentation skills and workshops about their culture and spread awareness about Education in society.

Global Village and Cultural Showcase, two major events happened during the entire project. The interns also participated in various workshops conducted for them in collaboration with different clubs of the university. They also participated in the International Run organized by AIESEC in Ahmedabad. All the international interns were also invited to the Saputara Monsoon Festival conducted by Gujarat Tourism.

Project Namaste, the legacy project of AIESEC in Ahmedabad in collaboration with Pandit Deendayal Energy University was aimed at working towards the United Nations- Sustainable Development Goal 4: Quality Education and Cultural Exchange. In Project Namaste 8.0, 11 interns from 3 different countries participated in this cross-cultural exchange over the span of 6 weeks from 9th January 2020 to 23rd February 2020.

All the interns were provided with their job descriptions which were aimed towards spreading awareness about education, teaching students from classes 3^rd-8^th grade and organizing various engaging workshops. Besides teaching the students about various topics and subjects, the interns also got a chance to be a part of many different school activities. The interns were a part of the various club and university events and activities like recreational workshops, Petrocup'20 (annual sports fest), Neon Rush, SPM fest and many such fun events conducted by the university students.

Global Village was one of the major events that took place during the event in which all the interns got a chance to present food items from their countries along with their tradition and culture.

The interns also got a chance to take a couple of trips around the country to explore the culture and heritage of India.

All this amazing experience was made possible by a wonderful and dedicated committee of university students who ensured the interns had a safe, fun and memorable stay thought their exchange.

Project FOOTPRINTS by AIESEC in Ahmedabad, in collaboration with Pandit Deendayal Energy University was based on United Nations SGD 4 -Quality Education. 12 Interns from 4 different countries had participated in the project from 15th January 2019 to 28th February 2019. They went to different schools and taught basic subjects to kids like health and hygiene, sanitation and environment and some foreign languages.

They also participated in Global Village at PDEU and a few other workshops with Rang and Jharokhaclubs of PDEU. Countries: China, Indonesia, Turkey, Sri Lanka

11 interns from 5 different countries: Taiwan, China, Egypt, Indonesia, Ethopia participated in one month long internship at PDEU from 15th July – 15th August, 2013.

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Avni Gupta from School of Liberal Studies, 2012 batch

• SLS 2019

• SOT 2019

AIESEC is being promoted by the University to facilitate global student leadership experiences in PDEU students. The objective of this programme is to shape PDEU student as global entrepreneurs of tomorrow and to help them enrich their education through international experience. This initiative aims to challenge their worldview and help them gain a unique combination of multi-cultural, social and entrepreneurial experience during the formative years of their lives.

Total 74 students have been sent from PDEU on AIESEC internship since 2012.

• SLS 2018

• SOT 2018

• SLS 2017

• SPT 2017

• SOT 2017

• SLS 2016

• SOT 2016

• SLS 2015

• SPT 2015

• SOT 2015

30 students participated in “Global Citizen”, AIESEC Internship in Mauritius, Egypt, Russia, China, and Malaysia for a month to develop entrepreneurial and leadership skills through international internships centered on social issues.

• SLS 2014

• SPT 2014

• SOT 2014

AIESEC in Ahmedabad and OIR facilitated and sent 19 students from School of Technology and School of Liberal Studies, PDEU to four different countries for AIESEC’s ‘Global Community Development Programme’ during May-July 2013. These students went to Russia, Egypt, Philippines and Kenya to hone their entrepreneurship and leadership skills.

• SLS 2013

• SOT 2013

AIESEC is being promoted by the University to facilitate global student leadership experiences in PDEU students. The objective of this programme is to shape PDEU student as global entrepreneurs of tomorrow and to help them enrich their education through international experience. This initiative aims to challenge their worldview and help them gain a unique combination of multi-cultural, social and entrepreneurial experience during the formative years of their lives.

Total 74 students have been sent from PDEU on AIESEC internship since 2012.

During November 2012 to January 2013, 4 students from School of Liberal Studies and School of Technology went to Russia, China and South Africa as part of ‘Global Entrepreneur Programme’ to gain a global perspective.

• SLS 2012