GES is recruiting research interns for the Summer 2011 period (as stipulated in our Charter of Establishment) with the aim of promoting understanding of its strategic research. IGES internships offer an opportunity to gain on-site work experience, and are aimed at those who wish to play a part in interdisciplinary policy research toward sustainable development in the Asia Pacific region.
Requirements:
Interns must:
– Be postgraduates (location of graduate school does not matter).
– Be willing to learn from the on-the-job training at IGES (the internship is not a training programme for students to write an individual thesis, but rather an opportunity to experience real strategic policy research and operational activities).
– Satisfy the individual criteria outlined in the “Internship Overview” for the group with which you would like to spend your internship.
– The research intern should be proficient enough in English for the purposes of oral communication and writing of documents.
Content of training:
The research interns will collect information for, or draft documents related to, their own research group. Work is supervised by the director of or training supervisor for the group to which the intern belongs. Those who are selected for internships will be contacted by the relevant group director to discuss and agree on the specific contents of training.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 31 January 2011

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