北京大學學生全球發展交流協會 於2007年6月正式成為北京大學註冊社團，在北京大學學生課外活動指導中心、北京大學外國語學院以及北京大學國際合作部的指導下，通過舉辦國際性的交流活動，為不同國家的青年人構建了一個了解中國的平台，同時創造讓更多優秀的北大學子走出校園，放眼世界的機會，建立起全新的中外交流導向。
GENS(學生全球發展交流協會）作為國際學生交流會（International Week Coordinating Organization)的新成員，在IWCO的支持下，首次把在全世界範圍內具有廣泛影響力的“國際交流周”（International Week)活動引入中國,並與其它三十多個IWCO會員建立了緊密的聯繫，共同致力於在不同文化背景的世界大學生中促進跨文化的商務、學術、文化和社會問題的交流與合作。同時，GENS深入發展和貫徹學生“國際交流周”的文化和理念，以全新的視野、創新的姿態迎接國際學生交流的浪潮，積極參與國際社會各項學生交流活動，並配合IWCO將“國際交流周”活動推廣到更多的國家和地區。
Founded in June 2007, supported by after-class activity center for students of PKU (Peking University), the Foreign Language School of PKU as well as the International Cooperation Department under the Student Union, GENS—Global Exchange Network for Students, provides an excellent platform for young people from all over the world to know more about China meanwhile it offers a golden opportunity for PKU students to go out of the campus and enjoy the great outside world. As a new member of IWCO (International Week Coordinating Organization), GENS got a lot of help from the organization with which it first introduced the "International Week", a highly-reputed program for students' international exchanges into China as well as came into contact with more than 30 IWCO members and set up a long-term cooperation system with them aiming at promoting commercial, academic, cultural and social communications and cooperation among university students coming from various cultural backgrounds. At the same time, according to spirit of "International Week", GENS is leading the trend of students' international exchanges in China and takes an active part in different exchange programs all around the world thus making "International Week" win higher "brand loyalty" among young people from different countries and regions. The coming 2008 is a year of Olympics, so taking this opportunity, GENS will be a best window from which the foreign university students can see a energetic China and a charming Beijing where modern technologies and ancient cultures live in harmony, where sports never stops making Beijing a city of vigor and rhythm, where young people believe in their hands and ambitions to build a promising future for Chinese of millions.
