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Report of the
General Secretary
This report is a summary of the exchange activities between IAESTE Members and Co-operating
Institutions during 2004. The details of these exchanges are presented in the 2004 IAESTE Activity
Report published in November 2004. The exchange took place between 87 Members and Cooperating
Institutions from 81 countries and 12 non-Member countries.
The 2004 IAESTE Activity Report contains the
detail on the bilateral exchanges, study fields of
trainees sent and received by each Member and
Co-operating Institution, the number of
participating Employers and Institutions,
training periods, age, nationality and gender of
the trainees and other useful comparative
information. It includes detail on the exchange
with non-Member countries. The report also
contains a summary of the administrative
procedures, reports from Members and Cooperating
Institutions on activity as well as the
names of the staff handling the exchange and
the addresses of the National Secretariats.
Readers interested in this report may order a
copy from the IAESTE National Secretariat in
their own country or from the General
Secretary.
Figure 1 shows the number of trainees sent in
2004 and compares this with the previous four
years.
Exchange Development in 2004.
The total number of trainees exchanged in
2004 was 4774 of which 4546 were nationals
of, or studying in a Member country. 141 more
students were placed successfully than in 2003.
This shows just over a 2.6% increase and
hopefully this trend will continue during the
current year. Almost half of the Members and
Co -operating Institutions managed to increase
their number of traineeships to incoming
students and this was very encouraging. Several
countries made a significant increase in the
number of placements offered to incoming
students, notably, China, Croatia, Germany,
Hungary, Iran, Norway, Poland and Serbia and
Montenegro.
Figure 2a shows the training periods for 2000-
2004 with the majority of students on
placements between 6-8 weeks.
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