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CEU Professional Internship Program

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Fall Internship: September - December

During the Fall semester (Sep-Dec), undergraduate seniors and graduate students can participate in a full-time internship (approx. 35 hours a week) for 14 weeks. Next to their internship engagement, students are required to take one subject course from a Fall curriculum offered in any CEU department or program. Students can also take a Hungarian language course. Other language classes such as Russian, French, German, Italian, Spanish or Arabic can be arranged if requested and students pay the fees for these courses directly to instructors. At the end of the internship program students are asked to submit a final written report detailing the internship accomplishments, lessons learned, and cultural experience.

The CEU study abroad students undertake highly substantives 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
- Environmental 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 Program for Study Abroad Students

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

The Fall Internship Program starts in the mid of September and ends in the mid of December.

Applying for the Fall and Spring CEU 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 hard drive. You can fill it out electronically and e-mail back as an attachment along with other requested documents to ceu@bard.edu. Alternatively, you may print out the Adobe Acrobat 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

Mail your Application to:
Study Abroad at Central European University
Bard College
30 Campus Road, P.O. Box 5000,
Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504-5000
email your application to:
ceu@bard.edu

Program Costs

Click here for the Fall and Spring Semester fees, expenses and refund policy.

Contact Persons

For more information about the Professional Internship Program contact
Stephanie Szitanyi Director of Recruitment for North America at ceu@bard.edu,
Orsi Jeney Project Manager in Human Rights Students' Initiative at visjeney@ceu.hu

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 Budapest-based internship organizations with their short descriptions, which CEU closely cooperates with. (PDF file)
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.