Institute for Global Environmental Studies (IGES) Internships in Japan

IGES 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.

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.

In principle, the internship should last a minimum of 2 months and a maximum of 3 months (and must fall between 1 April and 30 September 2011).
(actual term to be decided after discussion between the research intern and their group)

For further information: http://www.iges.or.jp/en/news/intern/2011summer/index.html