AIESEC x WLCUY

An agreement was reached with the AIESEC Lebanon branch in April 2019, teaming up to present WLCU Youth members with special conditions to facilitate their participation in AIESEC summer opportunities offered in Lebanon. The opportunities focus on empowering young people to make a progressive social impact through leadership development, cross-cultural internships, and global volunteer exchange experiences, in collaboration with NGOs like 26 Letters, Kunhadi, and Makhzoumi Foundation, among others.

Feel Lebanon is a 3-day campaign held annually in November, consisting of events organized by each of the WLCUY member institutions. The purpose of this campaign is to share Lebanese culture and traditions through events uniting Lebanese and non-Lebanese communities in order to celebrate, educate, and commemorate Lebanon on the month it celebrates its independence.

The WLCUY and the Lebanese American University (LAU) signed a memorandum of understanding to discuss issues of common interest and to coordinate work programs and support mutual efforts, with a focus primarily on programs and workshops related to the Arabic language and the Lebanese dialect. The relationship has materialized through the LAU Byblos Campus hosting the WLCUY World Congress in July 2019, the joint participation at UNESCO’s World Arabic Day event “The Arabic Language: Roots, Forms and Globalization”, and partial scholarships for summer Arabic courses for WLCUY members.

Most recently, LAU’s SINARC program offered an interactive online Lebanese Dialect workshop free of charge for WLCUY members, and the WLCU Youth awarded scholarships for its members to study in SINARC’s Arabic Online courses.

Born out of the need to adapt during the COVID-19 pandemic, the WLCU Youth Community Talks initiative aimed to bring Lebanon and its diaspora closer together through online conferences, with guest speakers from all corners of the world sharing their experiences and knowledge on a variety of subjects related to Lebanon. The opening series of Community talks featured online conferences held in various languages, focusing on arts, cultural heritage, diaspora migration, gastronomy, geopolitics, history, the Phoenicians and their negotiation skills, and the situation in Lebanon immediately after the August 4th explosion in Beirut.