Euroculture, with its emphasis on developing practical and applicable skills, combines its academic education with an education containing professional experience within a supervised, integrated internship of twenty to twenty-four weeks for students who choose to participate in the professional track.
Click on the pictures below to learn more about some first-hand internships experiences.
Headquarters of UNIDO Vienna, Austria Gulnur Telibayeva
COMECE Brussels, Belgium Emilio Dogliani
Alliance Française Edmonton, Canada Richard Blais
The internship is aimed at giving students an insight into the relation between his/her academic training and social reality. It can be done at any institution, either in the country of the home university or abroad. This includes public or private sector institutions, such as government organizations, NGOs, research institutions, the media or international companies. An internship should connect as closely as possible to the goals set for the Euroculture programme. Students usually agree that internships are a good way of getting to know their professional options, and it has been shown that following an internship can increase one's chances of finding suitable employment following graduation.
Below is a sample list of organisations and businesses in which Euroculture students did their internships .
AEC - Association Européenne des Conservatoires, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Berlin partner GmbH Corporation for economic development and location marketing
bikup gGmbH: International Association for Education, Culture and Participation, Cologne, Germany
Consultancy office based in Strasbourg specialized in European Affairs, Strasbourg, France
CNN, Berlin, Germany
Deutsche Bank AG, Corporate Center, Corporate Social Responsibility, Project office 'Land of ideas', Frankfurt, Germany
Media Research/Analysis Company, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
PMR Ltd. (British-American publishing, consulting and market research company), Poland
Publistat Media Onderzoek, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Volkswagen Group Communication Division, Wolfsburg, Germany
World Secretariat of ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability, Bonn, Germany
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) (visited the Organisation as an integral part of Eurocompetence II.: Project Management in June 2012)
Dutch National Agency of the Youth in Action Programme, the Netherlands
Stiftung Leben und Umwelt, Hanover, Germany
"Young Professional" at the German UNESCO-Commission in the cultural department, Berlin, Germany
YATF (Youth Arab Theatre Funds) AMA (Art Moves Africa), Brussels, Belgium
Krakowskie Biuro Festiwalowe (Krakow Festival Office), Poland
Goethe Institut Nancy, France
SIETAR-Europe, France
Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm, Sweden
International Migration Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
Netherlands House for Education and Research, Brussels, Belgium
European Movement International, Brussels, Belgium
Center for International Relations, Warsaw, Poland
Council for Assisting Refugee Academics & Network for Education and Academic Rights, London, UK
Vereniging Nederlandse Gemeenten Internationaal (VNG International), the Hague, the Netherlands
Association for Participatory Democracy ADEPT, Chisinau, Moldova
Fundacion Dinosaurios, Burgos, Spain
Spanda Fouindation, the Hague, the Netherlands
EUROPE DIRECT, Trencin, Slovakia
Club of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
British Council, Berlin, Germany
National Museum Krakow branch, Krakow, Poland
Villa Decius Association, Krakow, Poland
Information Office of the Council of Europe, Warsaw, Poland
Adama Mickiewicz Institute, Warsaw, Poland
Finnish Cultural Institute, Brussels, Belgium
European Association of Conservatoires, also known as AEC (Association Européenne des Conservatoires, Académies de Musique et Musikhochschulen), Utrecht, The Netherlands
Multikilturní Centrum Praha (Multucultural Centre in Prague), Prague, the Czech Republic
Mossutställningar (a non-profit organization working with public art), Stockholm, Sweden
The Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium
The Museum of Japanese Art and Technology 'Manggha' (Muzeum Sztuki i Techniki Japoñskiej 'Manggha’), Krakow, Poland
Berlin Partner GmbH
Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nourishment, Nature Conservation and Consumer Protection in the Department for International Trade Organisations
Commercial Section, the Austrian Embassy to Ukraine, Kiew, Ukraine
Royal Thai Embassy and Mission of Thailand to the European Communities, Brussels, Belgium
Polish Parliament at the German-Polish Group of Parliamentarians, Poland
Translation Directorate General of the European Commission, Brussels, Belgium
Duitsland Instituut Amsterdam at the Secondary Education Department, the Netherlands
Fins Cultureel Instituut voor de Benelux Institut Culturel Finlandais pour le Benelux, Brussels, Belgium
Staatskanzlei NRW, Referat für Europaangelegenheiten, Düsseldorf, Germany
State chancellery of North Rhine Westfalia; Department for bilateral relationships within the EU, Benelux Cooperation, interregional cooperation, Düsseldorf, Germany
Royal Thai Embassy, Stockholm, Sweden
Embassy of the Philippines, Stockholm, Sweden
German Embassy, New Zealand
German Embassy, Panama
The European Commission Delegation in Jordan
International Social Science Council, Paris, France
Romanian Embassy, Berlin, Germany
Youth in Action National Agency, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Vancouver, Canada
The European Comission Delegation in Jordan, North Abdoun-Amman, Jordan
European Union Delegation of the EU to Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal
EU-Japan Centre for Industry Cooperation, Department of Marketing and Intercultural Communication, Brussels, Belgium
Press & Culture Department of the Dutch Consulate in Düsseldorf, Germany
Public Affairs office of the United States Embassy in Berlin, Germany
Mayor's office in the town of Boras, Sweden
Embassy of Ukraine in the Kingdom of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Amman, Jordan
TUSIAD - Turkish Industry & Business Association, Representation to the EU and BUSINESSEUROPE, Brussels, Belgium
Consulate General of Greece in Hamburg, Germany
Consulate General of Greece in Istanbul, Turkey
Office for International Relations of the Region Friuli-Venezia-Giulia in Udine, Italy
German-Swedish Chamber of Commerce in Stockholm, Sweden
Research Center for East European Studies, Bremen, Germany
Euroculture Office(s) Göttingen, Germany and Groningen, the Netherlands
Institute for Ecumenical Theology and Oriental Church and Mission, Göttingen, Germany
Bremen University, Germany
Centre for Multiethnic Research, Uppsala, Sweden
Centre for European Security Studies, Groningen, the Netherlands
Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO)/The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies, The Hague, the Netherlands
International Office, University of Leiden, the Netherlands
Relaciones Internacionales-Universidad de Deusto, Kiev and Bilbao, Ukraine and Spain
Universidad de Deusto, San Sebastian, Spain
Institute of European Studies, Krakow, Poland
Center for Japanese Studies in the University of Groningen, the Netherlands
The Center for Buddhist Studies at the University of Hamburg, Germany
Volkshochschule Göttingen, Germany
International Office at the University of Goettingen or our 11 partner Universities
Students will be expected to play an active role in finding an internship. In other words they will have to look and apply for it themselves (though Euroculture staff may be able to provide some suggestions and advice). During the internship, students will be supervised by the Euroculture Internship Supervisor (at the home university) and by the supervisor of the organisation providing the internship. The internship will be rounded off by writing an internship report in English (10 - 15 pages). This report should largely be written during the internship itself. Internship reports have to be handed in to the Euroculture Internship Supervisor no later than two weeks after completing the internship.
