Summer Summit of AIESEC in Germany 2010

Hey AIESEC in Germany,

Have you maybe wondered why your LCPs have not been in your LC last week? Have you maybe wondered why the whole MC Team had an “Out of Office” E Mail reply? Well, here is the answer to your question: we were all in Berlin for this years’ LCP summer summit, our so called “Sommer Mitgliederversammlung” (SMV).
What is it that you actually do on an SMV? First of all, as our legal status is an “eingetragener Verein”, we have to have meetings for all “regular” members of AIESEC in Germany each year. These “regular” members, as stated in our compendium, are all your LCPs and the MC Team. On an SMV, we take official decisions for AIESEC in Germany together during legislation times. But actually, SMV was so much more than that, and a really special conference for us as your MC Team.

It all started on Thursday with the Opening Plenary, where the first new thing on an SMV became really obvious: SMV is now our Takeover MV. Unlike during the last years, all of a sudden we had two LCP generations on SMV with us, which was absolutely great!

We went through all the different sessions together, like the Board Report during which the LCPs asked us a lot of cool questions about the current state of the association, discussions about the current state based on the data we receive from all the LCs from the quarterly check and further discussions about the future of AIESEC during our 2015 session. We so much enjoyed to take the time with all the LCPs and share thoughts about it, get some new insights about the direction we strive for and to define our ambition.

Based on that, we started with the strategy process on the next day. Setting up a strategy for an AIESEC country with more than 45 entities is not an easy thing to do. But during the discussions the LCPs were more and more into the topic and we really used the time on SMV to design our common direction as AIESEC in Germany together. Where else could have been a better place for it than on this conference with two LCP generations in the house? Questions about new markets we could tap into, our sales activity and efficiency, our inclusiveness in planning processes and many others came up and people found really different but interesting answers to them.

SMV gave us all the chance to work on the future of AIESEC in Germany, to connect, to share thoughts and ideas and to have a great time together in Berlin. So many different people helped us to make this conference so successful, and it is the best feeling to be part of such a great network like AIESEC in Germany. We truly want to thank those groups for it:

The OC from Berlin HUFU, our Chair Phil, our Conference Manager Gesa, our LAA Philipp, our NSB members which were there with us, the Consolidation Teams of AIESEC 2015 and our new Strategy, the Allround Ausschuss and the MC Selection Task Force.

We are proud of the LCP Generation 2010 for still rocking the house and having achieved so much already, and look forward to work with the LCP Generation 2010-11 because you guys showed a lot of ambition and were open-minded about all the new things.

Guys, if we continue the way we started on SMV, imagine where this could lead us during the next year?

From 2010 towards Infinity!

All the best from Bonn,
Tanja