Three projects were awarded with the Norman Barnett & Bharat Bhasin Award during the International Congress of AIESEC 2008 in Sao Paolo, Brazil.



The Awakening Dragon CSR Program has a focus on raising awareness on social responsibility among Chinese students as well as international volunteers, on the different social issues that are pressing in China.
 
The project runs activities in four different directions:

• Providing 2-month education cycles on sustainable development to Chinese high-school students from Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, and Xian 

• Empowering primary and secondary school students to create learning environment around clean energy

• Providing internships opportunities, engaging social leaders and providing information addressing role of youth in prevention and education around HIV/AIDS

• Providing opportunities to foreign youth to contribute to NGO work in China

The project provided 56 internships for foreign students in China and sent 244 Chinese students to internships abroad.


2nd Place Award Winner for 2008:



The Social Entrepreneurship project consists of various smaller projects around the same topic, run by different local committees of Colombia. The largest project is an i nitiativ e of AIESEC in Colombia, supported by the Presidential Agency for Social Action and International Cooperation, and financed by the International Organization of Migration.  It seeks to better the processes of socio-economic stability of the populations in danger of displacement in cities such as Bogotá, Medellín, Cali, Barranquilla, Cartagena, Santa Marta, Bucarama nga, Armenia, Pereira, and Manizales.  The project accomplishes this goal by sensitizing young Colombian and international members of AIESEC to the displacement problems in Colombia.  They, in turn, impact and generate consciousness in their communities, while being involved as international AIESEC members, employees of Social Action, NGOs, universities, and the displaced population in general

The project has provided 51 placements of foreign interns in Colombia and sent 15 Colombian youth abroad.


2nd Place Award Winner for 2008:

 

The Horizontes Project is an opportunity for members and exchange participants who are interested in Social Entrepreneurship to have an Issue Based Experience in AIESEC and have a relevant impact on society during their internships at NGOs and Social Ventures. The project seeks to cconnect high potential young people with social entrepreneurship initiatives , in order to establish an environment of constant exchange of experiences between the trainees and the organizations (Ashoka and Artemisia’s fellows mainly, due to their culture of exc ellence). The project has strived to develop a new generation of young people interested in this issue and that these people have an impact on the organizations in which they will eventually work.

7 foreign youth have been provided with an internship opportunity in Brazil around the topic and 2 Brazilian students have been sent on similar internships abroad.