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Applications are now being accepted for 40 paid summer internships available via  WWF’s   BRIDGE (Building Relationships, Inclusivity, Diversity, Growth, and Excellence)  program.   BRIDGE aims to recruit professionals early in their careers who bring fresh thinking and innovation to the environmental and conservation sector and are well positioned to develop into the next generation of leaders. Its mission is to increase exposure of students from underrepresented populations to conservation and environmental careers, provide professional development opportunities, reduce the barriers to attracting a diverse pool of internship candidates, and develop a pipeline for future WWF hires from underrepresented populations. 

Applicants must be a current, active student enrolled in an associate’s, bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral program. For doctoral students, applicant must not have completed any more than two years of coursework.

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• Undergraduate and graduate positions available.
• Paid: $17/hour for undergraduates, $21/hour for graduates.
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• 10-week summer program from June through August.
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• Access to networking opportunities, including meetings with WWF’s senior management team, Employee Resource Groups, and representatives from other departments.

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Graduate unemployment in South Africa grows at an unprecedented rate each year. New graduates, many with Honours and Masters degrees, struggle to find jobs for reasons cited as their lack of foundational workplace skills. Internships support the transition of new graduates into the workplace and aid the development of foundational skills on which to build their careers.

South Africa’s transition to a green economy needs creative and innovative leaders to tackle the complex and interrelated socio-economic and ecological issues and risks facing us today. Across disciplines, graduates come from universities with new and novel ideas of how to respond to the increasing socio-ecological crises we are all caught up in. Law graduates are looking for new ways to ensure environmental rights are not violated. Urban Planners are looking for new ways to design cities for low carbon transport. Economists are trying to better value natural resources, and determine costs and impacts of environmental neglect. These graduates need both the workplace and opportunity to explore some of these new ideas in a real work environment, while at the same time building the foundations of their future careers and increasing their employability.

WWF’s Graduate Internships provide a practical and paid bridging experience for new graduates to gain valuable experience and workplace-based training, and connect into professional networks to establish their careers for the environment.

Every two years, WWF recruits a new cohort of Honours and Masters graduates into a structured and mentored 12-18 month internship programme. In addressing skills in high demand, internship positions range from traditional green occupations, like the Park Ranger and Ecologist to emerging areas of specialisation such as the Environmental Economist, Environmental Engineer and the green Architect. Applicants are selected for their specialism, coupled with an expressed commitment to and passion for the environment. Interns are placed with a host organisation and assigned a dedicated and trained mentor. Training workshops help interns to explore and develop workplace-based competences, such as ethics, relationships and communications in the workplace, employee rights and responsibilities, learning through feedback from performance appraisals and finding their next job.

From conservation partners to big corporates such as Spar and Nedbank, WWF works with a diverse range of host organisations. WWF also works closely with all universities in South Africa to promote internship opportunities.

​The programme responds to both environmental and social policy imperatives in South Africa. Responding to increasing youth employment, it also supports new graduates from multi-disciplines to develop the skills to respond to social and ecological challenges in an interrelated way, for example, sustainable agriculture for increased food security or water stewardship to create green jobs.   The first seven interns in 2011 were placed with WWF. The second intake of eight interns, included the first placement of an intern with a partner organisation. Seven years later the programme has recruited 50 interns who are placed with 17 partners.

1. The Graduate Internship Programme has a 90% success rate of interns transitioning from the internship into full-time employment. 2. The programme contributes to transforming the workforce for the environment with 66% females and 85% black South Africans supported through the programme. 3. WWF is proud to engage with 80% of South Africa’s universities, to ensure diversity of new entrants working for the environment into the future. 4. From an initial 7 interns in 2011 to 50 interns from 2017, a total of 177 interns have completed the internship and gone on to meaningfully contribute to environmental leadership in South Africa. 5. 42 committed partners have supported the hosting and mentoring of interns to support the career development journey of young graduates.

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The Tribal Health Experiential Student Internship Seminar program (THESIS) is a virtual 8-week paid internship for undergrad and recently graduated college students interested in Native American health. THESIS lets you experience tribal public health alongside mentors as you move your career forward and make a life-long impact.

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The Southern Plains Tribal Health Board’s THESIS program is funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s John R. Lewis Undergraduate Public Health Scholars Program (Lewis Scholars Program).

The Lewis Scholars Program, formerly known as the CDC Undergraduate Public Health Scholars (CUPS) program, is supported by the CDC’s Office of Minority Health and Health Equity (OMHHE), which also supports the Dr. James A. Ferguson Emerging Infectious Diseases program. These programs provide internship and fellowship opportunities for qualified undergraduate and graduate students to gain meaningful experiences in public health settings.

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Internship for experimental thesis

Students enrolled in the Master’s Degree in Molecular Biology and Genetics (MBG), are expected to take an “internship for experimental thesis”, as per course regulation:

• Molecular Life Sciences curriculum: 14 CFU (first year) + 22 CFU (second year) 
• Molecular and Digital Biology curriculum: 30 CFU (second year)

Students must find a laboratory where to perform the internship for experimental thesis and an internal supervisor . The internal supervisor must be a professor of the University of Pavia, not necessarily from the Biology teaching board, and can be the head of the laboratory where to perform the internship activity. 

IMPORTANT for insurance purposes - in case of internship for experimental thesis in a laboratory external to the University of Pavia - partially or entirely: 

• Before starting the internship for the thesis, students must submit via Filo Diretto an authorization request form signed by their thesis supervisor and wait for the confirmation of the Student Administration Office before starting the activity in the external laboratory. The authorization request form can be downloaded from the section titled "Come fare la richiesta di internato di tesi" at the following page here ;
• In case an extension of the internship duration is needed, the student MUST communicate it via Filo Diretto , so that the Student Administration Office can accordingly extend the duration of the required insurance coverage.

a. In a laboratory of the University of Pavia

In this case the head of the laboratory will be your thesis supervisor.

Laboratories of the Department of Biology and Biotechnology - check the full list here , otherwise you can find them organised by topic here . 

Laboratories of other departments of the University of Pavia , see examples below:

• Department of Molecular Medicine - check here ;
• Department of Drug Sciences - check here ;
• Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences - check here ;
• Department of Physics - check here ;
• Department of Chemistry - check here ;
• Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering - check here .

You can also browse UNIFIND https://unipv.unifind.cineca.it/ to identify potential other thesis supervisors based on specific research themes.

b. In a laboratory external to the University of Pavia, in Italy

In agreement with your thesis supervisor that must be a teacher at the University of Pavia, you can perform your internship for the thesis (partially or entirely) in a laboratory outside the University of Pavia. In this case the head of the laboratoty will be your thesis co-supervisor.

Just as examples, find below a list of institutes based in Pavia or close by, where there are laboratories that might be suitable for your internship for the thesis:

• Institute of Molecular Genetics IGM-CNR ( link )
• Policlinico San Matteo ( link )
• Fondazione Mondino ( link )
• Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri ( link )
• IFOM ( link )
• IEO - European Institute of Oncology ( link )
• San Raffaele Hospital ( link )
• Humanitas Hospital ( link )

In agreement with your thesis supervisor that must be a teacher at the University of Pavia, you can perform your internship for the thesis (partially or entirely) in a laboratory abroad.

In this case, the head of the laboratory will be your thesis co-supervisor.

First of all, as an MBG student, you might want to look into the COIMBRA Cancer Biology exchange program .

Apart from that, please notice that a thesis internship performed - partly or entirely - abroad can be part of the Erasmus+ program and included in the correspondent learning agreement:

• Erasmus+ traineeship program (check this page here ) - from 2 till 12 months, no limits to the destinations and student must find the hosting institution by himself/herself;
• Erasmus+ Studio program (check this page here ) - from 2 till 12 months, only in the institutions the University of Pavia has got an agreement with - warning: not all hosting institutions accept students for thesis research; 
• Overseas Exchange program (check this page here ) - from 5 till 6 months - warning: not all hosting institutions accept students for thesis research.

In such cases, before planning to participate in the program and submitting the application, we recommend you to identify your thesis supervisor from the University of Pavia and coordinate with the relevant Erasmus delegate of the Department of Biology and Biotechnology (check here ). 

For any support needed you can refer to the Mobility office ( [email protected] ) or book an appointment here . 

For students enrolled from the academic year 2022-2023 in curriculum Molecular and Digital Biology: the credits of the internship for experimental thesis will be automatically registered after the thesis defence.

For students enrolled since academic year 2022-2023 in curriculum Molecular Life Sciences, 

• the credits of the internship for experimental thesis of the first year : students must send by email to the President of the Teaching Board ( [email protected] ) their study plan and the CFU acquisition module duly filled in and signed by the thesis supervisor. The form can be downloaded from https://dbb.dip.unipv.it/en/education/useful-informations-guides-and-forms , section “CFU acquisition modules for..”.
• the credits of the internship for the experimental thesis of the second year will be automatically registered after the thesis defence.

In case students participate in a mobility program (Erasmus studio, Erasmus traineeship, overseas program...) and in their Learning Agreement are included credits related to the internship for the thesis, for the registration of the related credits, students should follow the instructions provided by the UOC International Mobility ( [email protected] ) . 

IMPORTANT: At the end of the mobility period, at least 45 days before the graduation date, students must send all the required documents to the UOC International Mobility. They will check the documents and send the request of validation to the Erasmus Delegate of the Department, who will present such a request of validation to the Teaching Board, that is gathering once a month. Please keep in mind that the all process might take more than a month.

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