SDGs? Alignment? Timeline?
We don't select our projects with random.org, learn about SDG alignment, and why we need a timeline!
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We don't select our projects with random.org, learn about SDG alignment, and why we need a timeline!
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Today we'll lear more about the SDGs, yes, those colourful squares that are 17 i total. Are you familiar with them or I should start from the biginning? Fiiiiiiineeee! The Sustainable Development Goals are the blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. They address the global challenges we face, including those related to poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, peace and justice. The 17 Goals are all interconnected, and in order to leave no one behind, it is important that we achieve them all by 2030. AIESEC has aligned its programs with the SDGs in 2015. In 2018, the aim is to run Flagship programs focused on Good Health and Well-Being, Quality Education, Gender Equality, Decent Work and Economic Growth and Responsible Consumption.
SDG Alignment is a practice follow by many organizations, companies and businesses working in the development sector or looking to implement sustainable practices. It is the process of aligning their business or organizational core and practices with SDG targets, ensuring their contribution to the global goals in their daily practices.
For AIESEC, being SDG aligned means that all our Global Volunteer experiences contribute to the SDGs and that we can measure the impact of the projects after they finish. If our GV projects are not SDG aligned, then they are not an AIESEC program.
AIESEC hereby declares to embrace and contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by mobilizing and developing young leaders who create awareness, foster engagement and take action to implement these goals.
Find more in the document below:
Global Projects are some Good Case Practicies with different SDGs that you can check here:
A timeline is the period of time according to which an activity should happen, in AIESEC we have a timeline for all of our acctivities and for GV as well.
We align our projects to the international timeline to be able to collaborate with other countries and to get the needed amount of EPs that will cover the places for our projects. We have two peaks of Exchange which are Summer Peak (SP) and Winter Peak (WP) - here Exchange is Happening.
Open Project for SP - January - February
Customer support - February - August
Summer Peak (SP) - project happens between June and August
Open Project for WP - July - August
Customer support - August - February
Winter Peak (WP) - project happens between January and February
Off-Peak - no project, project happens from September to November or from March to May
