2014 wids partnership pack

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Partnership Pack


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About WIDS ……………………………………………………….

WIDS This Year ……………….……………………………….....

Being a Partner ……………...………………………….………….

Outreach and Exposure .....………………………………………..

Contact ……………………………………………………………..

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About WIDS

Our vision Warwick International Development Society (WIDS), a society of the University of Warwick,

aims to provide a platform for engagement, inspiration and learning opportunities, establishing

itself as Warwick’s central and leading society in world affairs.

Background WIDS organises the UK’s largest student-run development summit, the Warwick Development

Summit (WDS) and every year, WIDS has hosted renowned speakers including the former

President of Uruguay, Mr. Luis Alberto Lacalle Herrera; Chief Economist of the World Trade

Organisation, Mr. Patrick Low; Special Advisor to the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and

Director of the Earth Institute, Columbia University, Mr. Jeffrey Sachs, all of whom have

engaged and inspired students from around the world. Before and after every Summit, WIDS

produces magazines centred on the theme of the summit for the year. The magazine is circulated

around the University, engaging a broad audience all over campus and beyond.

WIDS recently launched an internship scheme in collaboration with the International Rice

Research Institute (IRRI) in Los Banos, Philippines, providing internship opportunities for

students from the University of Warwick to experience work overseas.

Alongside the Summit and Internship Scheme, WIDS continues to host many events throughout

the year, ranging from career events, monthly lecture series to networking and social events.

WIDS has maintained a website over the years committed to providing regular news regarding

the society, its events, sponsors and other development-related news.


WIDS This Year

Warwick Development Summit

For 2014/15 we aim to look at development from an array

of perspectives. This vision incorporates that of regions as

well as specializations. In looking at development in this

way, we hope to shift away from the mainstream view and

approach to development that focuses solely on things

such as aid, international NGO’s and charities. We want

to go beyond this, looking at: engineering infrastructure,

regional entrepreneurship, medicine and pharmaceuticals, the rule of law and ideas that engages

a new focus for discussion.

This year’s vision endorses innovation, discussion, and ideas and concepts. As we approach the end of

the 2015 Millennium goals, we want to look back at development and assess what has really been

changed in the past few years, and what new steps should be taken to approach development.

Innovation is key in the branding of new ideas, and this will inevitably encapsulate a broader

audience. Let’s make development exciting!


WIDS Monthly Lecture Series and Career, Networking &

Social Events Building on the successes of previous years, WIDS plans on increasing the number of learning

opportunities available to its members by formalizing a monthly lecture series, inviting speakers

from around the world to engage students at the University of Warwick every month. In

addition, WIDS aims to expand the opportunities members can take advantage of to find out

more about possible career paths as well as socialise and make lasting friendships.

WIDS had more than 150 official members from the University of Warwick in the academic

year 2013/14. The membership as continued to increase and we plan on expanding it to 300

throughout the academic year 2014/15.

WIDS Website, Blog and Social Media Presence In addition to its official website, WIDS is starting a blog on development, inviting contributions

from professionals, academics and students from around the world. WIDS has also developed an

active social media presence through Twitter and Facebook.

WIDS2014 @WIDS_2014

Also visit our internal Student’s Union page which is accessible to all of our members. We

regularly update this page and it is also where prospective members come to sign up:

http://www.warwicksu.com/societies/internationaldev/

An example of one of our webpages: http://www.wids.org.uk/

http://www.wids.org.uk/


Being a Partner

WIDS this year would like to continue with our current partnerships whilst expanding and

pursuing further partnerships with:

Research Institutes

Banks

Non-Governmental Organisations

Think Tanks

Universities

Charities

The aim is to expand the presence of WIDS both nationally and internationally while also

creating opportunities for members to gain experience through internships and voluntary work

with organisations in development.

Current Partnerships The current partnership with the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) provides members

with internship opportunities at their facility in the Philippines. IRRI is a non-profit

independent research and training organisation that works towards eradicating poverty and

hunger and improving environmental sustainability. Our partnership with IRRI enables our

members to partake first-hand in upcoming research which may be used as a solution in tackling

world hunger.

Future Partnerships This year, WIDS is not only continuing its partnership with IRRI, but is also pursuing

partnerships with various organisations across the world.

A partnership with WIDS is extremely rewarding as you will be featured in many of our

networks and resources such as pamphlets, posters, brochures and various social networking

websites, for example Facebook and Twitter. WIDS successfully attracts and engages many

students that are really passionate about development and together, our partnership will serve a

mutual purpose of expanding WIDS, truly engaging members in development while

simultaneously enabling your organisation to target the members of our society.

We aim to collaborate with organisations based in the UK and abroad to offer exceptional

students the chance to experience developmental organisations.


Internships Some partners may offer a competitive internship scheme for students where interested

applicants will undergo a rigorous application process comprising of a submitted essay and

formal interview where students are then shortlisted for the internship programme.

As part of our outreach programme, we also aim to work in partnership with students from other

universities around the world, offering them a chance to participate in our internship

opportunities too. This scheme has significant benefits as it advertises partners to many of the

top institutions around the world. The programme ensures that the successful intern is well

equipped with excellent research abilities and is passionate about development issues.

As a non-profit organisation, we hope that partners interested in creating and/or offering an

internship scheme through WIDS will fully or partially fund the internship.

Ultimately, partners have the unique opportunity in helping WIDS achieve its objective of

providing a platform for engagement, inspiration and learning opportunities.


Outreach & Exposure

As part of our outreach initiative to involve students from across the world, we will promote our

Summit to the following universities across the globe. As a sponsor, you would benefit from this

exposure too.

USA/Canada Middle East South America

Europe South Asia East Asia

Harvard University

Cairo University

University of Sao Paulo

University of Warwick

St. Stephens College

National University of Singapore

Princeton University

America University of Beirut

State University f Campinas

Oxford University

Jawaharlal Nehru University

University of Hong Kong

Columbia University

America University of Cairo

Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

University of Cambridge

Indian Institute of Technology

University of Tokyo

Yale University

King Saud University

University de Buenos Aires

Edinburgh University

Ladies Shri Ram College

Seoul National University

Brown University

London School of Economics

Jamia Millia Islamia

Singapore Management University

University of Pennsylvania

Imperial College London

University of the Punjab

Dartmouth University

SOAS University of Karachi

Middlebury University

UCL

TUFTS University

St. Andrews University

UC Berkeley Durham University


USA/Canada Middle East South America

Europe South Asia East Asia

UCLA University of Bristol

Stanford University

Ecole Polytechni-que

Amherst University

Stockholm University

MIT University of Munich

Carnegie Melon

University of Zurich

Mcgill University

University of Geneva

University of Torronto

University of Barcelona

University of British Colombia

Uppsala University

Queens University

University of Amsterdam


Contact

For more information, please contact:

Partnership Department

Tito Olaniyan

Head of Partnerships

+44 (0) 7847540188

[email protected]

Yeong Kit Lee

Deputy Head of Partnerships

+44 (0) 7999255557

[email protected]

Anushay Neeshat


+44 (0) 7552457625

[email protected]

Noshin Suleman


+44 (0) 7860886138

[email protected]

Co-ordinators

Stephanie Ifayemi

WIDS Co-ordinator

+44 (0) 7447921040

[email protected]

Riko Yamada

WIDS Co-ordinator

+44 (0) 7577383675

[email protected]

mailto:[email protected]






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