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At those congresses the organization's mission was stated: "to expand the understanding of a nation by expanding the understanding of the individuals, changing the world one person at a time." Also a constitution for the organization defined a purpose: "AIESEC is an independent, non-political, and international organization which has as its purpose to establish and promote the friendly relations between the members." Global expansion The next two annual congresses were conducted in Stockholm, presided by Bengt Sjӧstrand, and in Paris, presided by Jean Choplin, respectively. In 1949, 89 students were exchanged by AIESEC among the member nations. Students from seven nations: Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Netherlands, Norway and Sweden, came together for that first International Congress of AIESEC. Then the official, constitutive assembly (the congress) was organized in 1949 in Stockholm with Bengt Sjӧstrand as the President and Sweden as the Presiding Country for 1949/1950. The first broad meeting was held by students from 9 universities of 7 countries in April 1948 in Liège ( Belgium). In 1948, a renewing development of the association was initiated, with implementation of international meetings (congresses), replacing the practice of governance from the headquarter. AIESEC was formed to address both of these concerns. The continent needed more than just business development, however the war had severely damaged relations between European nations, and many members of the community felt steps needed to be taken to address this problem. Factories and enterprises were in desperate need of executives, managers and leaders. Bertil Hedberg, an official at the Stockholm School of Economics, and students Jaroslav Zich (of Czechoslovakia) and Stanislas Callens (of Belgium), founded AIESEC on July 2, 1946, under the name Association Internationale des Etudiants en Sciences Economiques ( AIESEc) with a headquarter in Prague and Jaroslav Zich as the first President of the association.Īt the time of AIESEC's founding at the end of the 1940s, Europe was in the midst of recovery from the war that dealt grave losses to its population. In 1944, the neutral Scandinavian countries were still exchanging students. Students had been carrying out internships in other countries, mostly on their own initiative, but this came to a standstill with the onslaught of World War II. The idea behind AIESEC started after World War II, when representatives from schools across Europe exchanged information about various programs and schools that specialized in business and economics.