NPS in Amara, Romania

Because we couldn’t attend the Future in Salzburg we decided to go to the National Preparation Seminar in Amara near Bucarest.
Sarah from LC Vienna joined us on our flight from Vienna to Bucarest, so the three of us where the austrian delagation representing our country at this conference in Romania.
The journey was quite exciting and kind of a survival training, from banessa airport in bucarest to the Amara where the conference was held we hat to take several different busses, one needed 3 hours for 100 kilometres so you can imagine how the streets look like in Romania. Thank god we met Alina from LC Bucarest in Bucarest downtown, she told us which busses, trains, subways etc. we had to take.
At around 3 in the afternoon we arrived at the ‚charming’ Lebada ‚hotel’ in Amara. It looks like a huge communistic ‚Plattenbau’ in the middle of nowhere. No real streets, no shops, no houses, nuthing but the hotel.
Just look at the pictures.
After we dropped our luggage in our room we crashed the main plenary room where all the newies and the chair of the conference, Bene from LC Vienna, just held a workshop. We where splitted into different homegroups and were from the beginning part of different teams mainly consisted of romanians.


After some minutes we were asked on stage for being introduced to all the newies and facies. The crowd (about 500 Romanians) claimed an austrian roll call so we performed together with Bene a ‚Jodel-roll-call’ we didn’t even know...
A really nice experience was the open-minded collegues from AIESEC Romania who welcomed us really warmly and were kind and helpful at any time. We made a lot of friends there, if everybody keeps his promises, we will have hundreds of visits during the next weeks, let’s see. We got to know interesting facts and insider information about Romanians and there culture.
During the day we hat plenaries, workshops, meetings with our home groups where we discussed and reflected the daily issues and last but not least insane parties at night!
Thursday we learned about the AIESEC culture for a better understanding of the organization. The Facies of our home-groups were our contact persons and at every time friendly and available. On friday lectures about leadership were held. Saturday was sustainability-day. In our opinion the most interesting day, representatives of international prestigious enterprises such as Microsoft or the Royal Banc of Scotland, ING, or Junior Achievement gave talks and workshops to the newies.
On Saturday night there was a big awards gala, the different LC’s of Romania were honoured and got prices for special achievements. Everybody had to dress up. Afterward there was a huge party again where we met some AIESEC Alumni from Austria who are on exchange in Romania now.
During the whole conference we were amazed of the passion of the AIESEC-people and defintely proud to be a part of it, even though it was really much and sometimes surprising for us in the beginning.

The parties didn’t start before 1 o’clock in the morning and lasted til the sun rised at the nearby lake.
Our personal highlight regarding the parties was our stand at the global village party where we had to present Austria. We put on our ‚Lederhosen’ and Sarah from Vienna wore a ‚Dirndl’. We carried Schnaps, Stroh 80, Speck, Bread, Schmalz, Kernöl, Mannerschnitten, Mozartkugeln and many austrian flags to decorate our little area. After some minutes all the stuff was gone, maybe because the meals were usually not that enjoyable at the hotel, they even tried to eat our bacon rind and drank the oil purely.


After that we partied all together really hard and everybody was pretty wasted because the Romanians brought their traditional Schnaps Pelinka.
Another highlight are the unique Romanian roll-calls that sound much better than the austrian ones. Make your own picture:
Summarizing we can say that our first conference, an international conference, was a great experience for us because we got to know much about basic structures of AIESEC and of Romania as a culture and ist people. An international conference has many advantages and we would recommend it to eyerbody who is interested in international contacts, making friends and and an adventurous jouney!

Phillip Fröhlich and Elias Resinger

Faci Experience in Slovakia

Equipped with a printed google map I jumped into the car and drove to Bratislava the meeting point for all members of the conference teams. My target was the MC flat somewhere in Bratislava. I arrived there at 0.00 in the night. The first time in this city and confusing road signs made me feel lost. No one on the street to ask where I am in Bratislava. Finally I found a police car. Because we had difficulties in understanding each other the police man said in broken English: "Follow me" I followed the police car back on the highway there I took the right exit and some minutes later I arrived at the MC flat.

Next day we were driving to the conference side, which was some where in the woods in Slovakia far far away from the civilisation. One day for all the facis to get two know each other, get into the conference spirit and shape our conference team culture. Our faci team consists of AIESECers from Slovakia, Czech Republic, Turkey, Roumania, Latvia, Poland and a chair from New Zealand which lives in Netherlands. The best preconditions to have an exciting and challenging conference experience.


Our goal in the Leadership Track was: Let the delegates find out their personal passion and bring it into reality with relevant actions. The delegates were grouped in home groups. This means you are together with 6-8 ppl in one group the whole conference. This leads to strong group dynamic effects which makes your role as faci even more interesting and intensive.


Highlights of the conference

First Day: Opening followed by challenging team building exercise for the groups. Halloween Party.


Second Day: Company work shop from Henkel about Innovation and delegates start to discover them self and find their passion in life. 60th Anniversary celebration of AIESEC International.

Third Day: Get to know your 24 individual and professional strength. Alumni talks about be an entrepreneurial. Alumni were sharing about their pitfalls, their ways of using their potential for creating a life of joy and successful working career. Hot Peperoni Competition Extreme. (Record 25 Peperoni!!!) Global Village with completele new and funnny ways to discover other cultures.



Fourth Day: Every delegate find out the answer for them self to the question: How can I bring my passion into action by living my own style.

Summa sumarum. It was entirely worth to go on a national conference abroad. You meet and more important work with people from different cultures and afterwards you are friends. That's the best what you can do with your time. Go for an AIESEC conference abroad.


I am looking forward to read your bring backs from your conferences.

Matthias Kahr

Future I in Salzburg

As I am a newie I was very excited about my first Future-Conference. So when I arrived in Salzburg I didn’t know what to expect and what’s going to happen during the next three days. I just heard that it’s going to be a “new experience” and of course, it really was a completely new experience for me. Especially, the first day was kind of weird and funny: When the newies entered the room for the first time the other AIESECers began to dance and it looked a little bit like we landed in a sect or in a vacation club. But this feeling changed after minutes when other newies tried to join the dance and I recognised that this was the famous AIESEC-Culture I had heard of before. So after every LC presented their selves by doing a role-call we were split up into groups and the workshops began.
During this three days we had a lot of different workshops, some of them were pretty interesting but some of I didn’t like that much.
At the end of each day there was also a party, which differed from the parties that I have been to so far. The special thing was that every party had a certain topic and you were supposed to dress according to the theme, which was really fun...

All in all I can say that the Future Conference was really cool and a great experience. I learned a lot (teamwork, more things about AIESEC), there was a lot of fun (parties, AIESEC-Culture), I got to know a lot of interesting and cool people, but it was also very exhausting. Personally, I also feel more connected to AIESEC than before and I recommend to everybody, who hasn’t been to an AIESEC-Conference yet, to go, because you will really get a great benefit from it (at least you will learn, that you don’t need much sleep. ;)

Stefan Janisch

Local Induction

Local Induction - the best way for a Newie to get into the organization.

Two LIs are already over and one more will take place next week. So it's time to strike an iterim balance: We got really cool Newies so far!

And of course we're already looking forward to the last (but definitely not least) LI to welcome the remaining Newies to LC Graz.