CEU Professional Internship Program in Spring
During During the Spring semester (Apr-Jun), seniors and graduate students participate in a full-time internship (approx. 35 hours a week) for 12 weeks. Next to undertaking highly substnative internships, students are required to take credited core seminar, which provides an academic framework to contextualize internship experience and improve students' skills in critical thinking, analytical reasoning, and written and oral expression. At the end of the seminar students are asked to submit a final written report detailing the internship accomplishments, lessons learned, and cultural experience. If requested, CEU can arrange language classes such as Hungarian, Russian, French, German, Italian, Spanish or Arabic and students pay the fees for these courses directly to instructors.

CEU places interns at a variety of private, public and non-profit organizations operating in areas such as:

- International Law & Refugees	- Human Rights & Minority Rights
- Public Health	- Education, Children & Youth
- European Integration	- Arts & Culture
- Envrionmental Policy	- Archival Research
- Media & Journalism	- International Politics & Security
- Countries in Transition	- Gender Issues
- Jewish History & Culture	- International Business & Consulting
(click here for the Fall internship, here for the Winter&Spring internship and here for the Summer Institute)

Credits
The core seminar is worth 4 undergraduate credits awarded by Bard College for easy transfer to any US academic institution.

Dates
Spring Internship Program starts at the beginning April and ends in the second half of June.

Language
English is the operational language of the internship program.

Admission and Placement Process
The deadline for submitting application documents for the Fall Internship Program is January 15. Students are informed about the acceptance to the program usually by the end of January and receive documents needed to apply for a Hungarian student visa in thier country of residence. Please note: Students accepted to the program must apply for and secure the Hungarian student visa in their countries of residence before coming to Budapest to start their internships.

After receiving students' confirmation deposit credited towards the program fee, CEU staff in the US and Budapest will begin working closely with each student to ensure an appropriate internship match, taking into consideration the particular interests and skill sets of the students and the substantive opportunities available in the host organization in Budapest. CEU will conduct background research on the internship organization and arrange phone interviews between the student and the organization. CEU staff are available to provide relevant assistance to the students throughout the placement period (Feb-Mar) and the Spring internship program (Apr-Jun).

Please note: The internship program is highly competitive. Students are not guaranteed an internship; assignments are developed in concert with CEU and are based on a student’s experience, interest, and internship availability.

List of Internship organizations in Budapest

A selection of Budapest-based organizations which can potentially host CEU interns:

· Amnesty International Hungary · Civil Society Development Foundation · Council of Europe Information and Documentation Center · European Roma Rights Center · European Center for Not-for-Profit Law · Freedom House · Habeas Corpus · Helsinki Committee · National Committee for UNICEF · International Organization for Migration · Menedek (Hungarian Association for Migrants) · Mental Disability Advocacy Center · NaNE (Women for Women together Against Violence) · NEKI (Legal Defense Bureau for National & Ethnic Minorities) · Open Society Institute (OSI)· OSI Mental Health Initiative · Partners Hungary Foundation · Public Interest Law initiative · TASZ (Hungarian Civil Liberties Union) · Regional Environmental Center · Roma Press Center · CEU Center for Media and Communication · DemNet (Foundation for Development of Democratic Rights) · Trafo (House of Contemporary Arts) · Metropolitan Research Institute · Hungarian Business Leaders' Forum · Hungarian Parliament.

Click here for the list of Budpaest-based internship organizations with thier short descriptions, which CEU closely cooperates with.

Please note: The above lists are not meant to be all inclusive. New internship placements are added regularly based on the students' interest and preferences.

Contact Persons: For more information about the Fall Professional Internship Program contact Andrea Matolcsi, Project Manager in Human Rights Students' Initiative at vismatolcsi@ceu.hu, Monica Jitereanu, the CEU Coordinator of Undergraduate Studies at JitareanuM@ceu.hu or Stephanie Szitanyi, CEU Director of Recruitment for North America at szitanyi@bard.edu or ceu@bard.edu.

Accommodation

The participants are invited to stay at the CEU graduate dormitory during the time of their internship. Students are however free to search independently for and live in rented apartments in Budapest.

Cultural Activities

During the Spring Internship Program CEU will organize a variety of cultural activities for the students, including a walking tour of the city; trips to concerts and a ballet at the National Opera House; visits to museums and cultural festivals, and trips in and around Budapest.

Program Costs

Fee for the Spring Internship Program:	*$4,000
Mandatory Hungarian health insurance:	*$200
*2007/2008 figures

The fee for the Spring Internship Program covers the internship placement, orientation program, a subject seminar with its credits, Hungarian language course, internship monitoring and evaluation, and the cultural program. Each student is responsible for her own travel costs, visa fee, housing (either at the CEU dormitory or an apartment in the city) and living expenses.

Currently, no scholarships for the Spring Internship Program are available. Students are encouraged to check with their host college to see if any financial aid will transfer to cover the fee for the summer internship program.

Applying for the Spring Internship Program

Interested students must submit an application form with a statement of purpose, a resume, one recommendation letter and transcript . The documents can be mailed to the address included in the application form or send by email to ceu@bard.edu before October 15.

To apply to this program, download and save the application PDF* below to your harddrive. You can fill it out electronically and e-mail back as an attachement along wih other requested documents to ceu@bard.edu. Alternatively, you may print out the PDF file, fill it out and mail it along with other documents to the address below.

• Application for the CEU Spring Internship Program

Address for mailing the application documents:

Bard College-CEU Study Abroad Programs
Institute for International Liberal Education
P.O. Box 5000
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 12504

E-mail address for sending application documents electronically and for any inquiries:

ceu@bard.edu

*To view and print the file, you may need to have the Adobe Acrobat Reader, which can be downloaded for free.