For students to provide information about various internships available in the world Office of Collaborations organized information session on Overseas Internship Abroad, for all the Pre-final, Second year Engineering and MBA, MCA students on 30th October 2019 in Bishop Aloysius Paul Hall. The resource person for the workshop was Mr Kushagrr Rastogi, Business Unit Coordinator, AIESEC M.A.H.E addressed the students and said overseas internship will be providing the best technical opportunities available across different countries and it will help the students to explore and develop their leadership potentials globally.
AIESEC is a non-political, independent and not-for-profit organisation run by students and recent graduates from institutions of higher education. It was founded in 1948. AIESEC is affiliated with the United Nations (UN) and offers Global Volunteer internships in more than 30 countries. Their objective is to break cross-cultural barriers by facilitating exchanges and providing international exposure to student interns. As an affiliate of the United Nations, AIESEC has projects that actively deal with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the UN. Some of these are No Poverty, Zero Hunger, Quality Education etc. AIESEC also facilitates internship opportunities in various start-ups based on Marketing, IT, Business development and others.
The key areas of focus for this informative workshop were:To provide students with insights on different internship avenues in the multi-disciplinary projects based on the sustainable development goals set by the UN in different regions across the world. To inform students about internship and entrepreneurship opportunities in global start-ups. To educate the students on the process for enrolling in the ongoing and upcoming short-term projects in different countries. Through the knowledge on the various projects, the workshop, in addition, will provide students an exposure to current social issues across the world.