Summer Internship at the Budapest Institute

03/05/2022

The Budapest Institute is looking for summer interns for at least 4-week periods. Based on our past experience, application to our internship programme is highly competitive.

We expect you to have:

- completed at least 2 years of university-level studies in Economics or in other Social Sciences,

- demonstrated interest in public policy and policy analysis,

- advanced communication and writing skills in English,

- a solid knowledge in Statistics or in specific methods (surveying, content analysis),

- average GPA at least 3.5.

It’s an advantage if you have:

- knowledge of any of the following languages: Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Czech, Slovakian or Polish,

- MA studies in progress,

- previous research experience.

Job description:

- at least 4 consecutive weeks of work,
- we can not offer remuneration,
- flexible working hours, working partly at the office of the Budapest Institute and partly from home,
- we provide reference letter in case of good performance.

Applications should be sent to Ms Vera Balogh (vera.balogh@budapestinstitute.eu) with the following subject: “Intern application” until May 15th, 2022. Please attach the following documents:

- resume (in English),

- motivation letter (in English) including (a) your policy and research interests, (b) brief description of how you meet the selection criteria, and (c) why you wish to work with us,

- contact details of a professor who can tell us about your college work and can act as a reference person,

- a copy of your college transcript.

Please let us know if you need a response earlier than the application deadline.