IAESTE
The International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience was founded in 1948 at Imperial College, London. Since 1948, the association has grown to include more than 80 countries world-wide and has exchanged in excess of 300,000 students. This means that yearly IAESTE exchanges around 6000 students playing a key role in the development of technical undergraduates able to make their mark in a global economy .IAESTE, the international association, is a worldwide organization with 86 members in 84 countries. IAESTE was founded in 1948. The association operates an exchange program for the benefit of students, academic institutions, industrial and other organizations offering traineeship. University of Tehran joined the association in 2002
Aims of IAESTE
To provide students in higher education with technical experience relevant to their studies
to offer employers well-qualified and motivated trainees
To be a source of cultural enrichment for trainees and their host communities
IAESTE operates irrespective of race, color, sex or creed
IAESTE Iran
IAESTE was first established at the University of Tehran. The faculty of Engineering at the University of Tehran applied for a membership as a Co-operating Institution which was accepted on June 2002 in Advisory Committee at Varsho, Poland. Since then, the executive committee started its activities and during the first year we had 20 offers which were exchanged with different countries and as a result 13 outgoings and 3 incomings passed internships in. Each year the number of our offers was increased and we are proud that during the previous years we have been he representative of Iran with more 100 offers annually and a number of 70 exchanges each year. Sharif University of Technology became a member one year after IAESTE at the University of Tehran. Later we decided to join both Cooperating Institutions to make a better outcome. So in January 2005 we applied for Associate Membership and Iran is at the moment one of the active members of IAESTE
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