CEU Professional Internship Program
Central European University (CEU) provides a unique opportunity for a select group of students enrolled in study abroad at CEU to engage in the credited Professional Internship Program. CEU Professional Internship Program (PIP) incoporates best practices of the very successful Bard College Globalization and International Affairs program in New York.

The CEU study abroad students understake highly substatives internship at various Budapest-based private, public and non-profit organizations that operate 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

Summer Professional Internship Program in Budapest (June 1- July 31) now available!

Fall and Spring Professional Internship Programs
On average, during the Fall and Spring semesters, students work 15 hours a week for a minimum of 10 weeks. In the Fall and Spring internship, students are also required to participate in the credited Core Seminar.as a complement to the PIP. This is a class taught by a faculty member at CEU that provides an academic framework for the students to contextualize the professional internship experience. In the Core Seminar, students are challenged to explore specific themes on the role of civil society, globalization, regional integration, international affairs and develop skills in critical thinking, analytical reasoning, and written and oral expression.

Credits: Students can earn up to 4 credits either for the Fall or Spring Professional Internship Program (for the Core Seminar) that will be transferred into Bard College undergraduate transcript for easy transfer of credits to students' home institutions.

Dates: In Fall, PIP starts in the second half of August and ends in the middle of December. In Spring, PIP begins in the second week of April and ends in June.

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.

Alumni of the CEU Professional Internship Program

The list of the CEU PIP alumni who can serve as a reference for prospective students interested in the internship program:

Steven Sferlazza: ssferla1@jhu.edu (Fall '06)	Sara Babb: babse@rhodes.edu (Spring '06)
Reanna Blackford: rb546@bard.edu (Fall '06)	Autumn Lotze: lotze_a@denison.edu (Spring '06)
Eli Rosenfeld: eli.rosenfeld@oberlin.edu (Fall '06)	Cleo Rogatko: cpr23@cornell.edu (Spring '06)

Please note: PIP 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.

Contact Persons: For more information about the PIP contact Andrea Matolcsi, Project Manager in Human Rights Students' Initiative at vismatolcsi@ceu.hu or Stephanie Szitanyi , CEU Director of Recruitment for North America at ceu@bard.edu or szitanyi@bard.edu.

Applying for the Fall and Spring CEU Professional Internship Program

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

To apply to the Fall or Spring internship 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 your application for admission to the study abroad at CEU to the address below.

• Application for the CEU Fall and Spring Professional Internship Program

Address for mailing the application documents:

Bard College-CEU Study Abroad Programs

Institute for International Liberal Education

30 Campus Road, P.O. Box 5000

Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504-5000

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.