Sunday, July 09, 2006

Hey all,

As this is the space for sharing stories about our experiences related to Corporate Responsibility, I'm writing some lines about the meeting we just had in Rotterdam.
For 4 full days, the 3 members from the global Corporate Responsibility Drive Team (Andrea, from Germany; Maggie, from Honk Kong; and myself, from Brazil) could meet with the AIESEC International team and the other Drive Teams' members to discuss the Learning Networks strategy. In total, there were more than 20 people directly involved, from more or less 20 different countries!

Some of the coolest moments were:

- the real storm of ideas when we had some time for thinking on possible exchange based projects, coming from various exchanges linked in different SMEs to big ideas, involving governmental and UN agencies;

- getting to know stories of AIESEC alumni currently involved in the issue, as the Brazilians who recently were showcased as examples of sustainability professionals by a specialized maganize in Brazil;

- the ideas for the future: supporting the countries' plans, bringing up content for high quality discussions and International Congress preparation;

- informal moments, like the World Cup dinners and the picnic by the lake. Great conversations, pure diversity and big individual plans for the future!

Seems that it's going to be an exciting year!

Gabi.