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CEU Professional Internship Program
 

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Winter Internship

CEU Professional Internship Program in Winter
During the Winter semester (Jan-Apr), seniors and graduate students participate in a full-time internship (approx. 35 hours a week) for 12 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.
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
- Environmental Policy
- Archival Research
- Media & Journalism
- International Politics & Security
- Countries in Transition
- Gender Issues
- Jewish History & Culture
- International Business & Consulting

Credits

Senior undergraduate students can earn up to 4 credits for a subject course, and 2 credits for a Hungarian language course that will be transferred into Bard College undergraduate transcript for easy transfer of credits to students' home institutions. Graduate students can earn up to 4 graduate credits awarded by CEU for a subject course and take a Hungarian language course on a pass/fail basis. Neither CEU nor Bard offers credits for internships.

Dates

The Winter Internship Program starts at the beginning January and ends at the beginning of April.

Admission and Placement Process

The deadline for submitting application documents for the Fall Internship Program is October 15. Students are informed about the acceptance to the program usually by the mid of May 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 (May-Aug) and the Fall program (Sep-Dec).
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.

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

The Summer Institute 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 Summer Institute: $4,500
Mandatory health insurance:   $200

The fee for the Fall 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 Fall 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 Winter 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 before October 15.
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 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

Contact Persons

FFor more information about the Professional Internship Program contact
Stephanie Szitanyi,  Director of Recruitment for North America at ceu@bard.edu,
Andrea Matolcsi, Project Manager in Human Rights Students' Initiative at vismatolcsi@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.