Internships

The Thünen Institute of Rural Studies offers internships for the following courses of study:

• Agricultural Economics
• Sociology
• Economic and Social Geography
• Environmental and Sustainability Sciences
• Political Science
• Landscape and Spatial planning and 
• neighbouring disciplines

Both voluntary and mandatory internships can be conducted. You are welcome to discuss which option is appropriate for you with Dr. Sylvia Keim-Klärner. She is our contact person for internships.

What you can expect:

• Working in a professional team with flat hierarchies
• Varied tasks
• Gaining first professional experience in a non-university research institution and insights into science-based policy advice
• Professional support and supervision
• Intensive, individual supervision and integration into existing working groups
• A very well-equipped, modern working environment
• Access to extensive data material and, if applicable, the opportunity to collect data yourself
• Possibility of writing an interesting thesis in applied research on rural areas or on land use and resource protection in Germany

What you will do:

• Supporting the team in the implementation of research projects
• Contributing ideas and working on your own tasks, a high degree of independence and creative development
• Supporting project-specific meetings and workshops
• Contributing to the development of policy-relevant research results

What you bring with you:

• Ongoing Master’s programme or advanced Bachelor’s programme in one of the above-mentioned disciplines
• Strong teamwork skills, good communication skills, solution-oriented thinking
• Independent and proactive way of working
• Fluent written and spoken German, knowledge of English is desirable

If you are interested, please send us an e-mail with one PDF document containing

1. a short letter of motivation,
2. your CV,
3. your desired field of work or project and
4. the desired dates for your internship at our institute to: lv-praktikum@thuenen.de

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Dr. Sylvia Keim-Klärner.