🇧🇪 Internship in Belgium 📝 Research and Editing for a European Policy Journal at a Think Tank 📚

If you love editing, research, and European politics, this internship at the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies in Brussels is a wonderful opportunity. You will support the editorial team of the European View, the Centre's policy journal, working with authors, academics, and an international publisher to help shape publications that contribute to the debate on European and international politics.

About the Organisation

The Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies is a Brussels-based think tank engaged in research and debate on European affairs. The European View is its policy journal, an intellectual platform for politicians, opinion makers, and academics that tackles contemporary themes of European politics, focusing on one specific theme in each issue. The journal contributes to the debate on the most important fields of European and international politics.

About the Internship

For this position, you will assist the European View Editor-in-Chief and Assistant Editor-in-Chief with the journal's full editorial cycle.

Your Tasks

✉️ Identifying article contributors and drafting invitations

✏️ Editing the articles

🤝 Liaising and communicating with the article authors throughout the editing and proofreading process, ensuring they meet the agreed deadlines to submit their contributions

📚 Liaising and communicating with Springer, the external publisher of the European View

📣 Being proactive in communicating and promoting the European View to external audiences

🎪 Preparing and managing the launch event(s) of new European View issues

🗂️ Performing other tasks related to the general activities of the Centre, including research, publications, and events

Who Can Apply

The position is open to all young graduates with an academic background in European affairs and related fields, holding a university degree, fluent in English, fully computer and internet literate, and with good knowledge of European politics. Additional educational qualifications, experience in policy research, and adequate knowledge of one or two more languages are considered assets.

The Details

📍 Location: Brussels, Belgium

📄 Applications are considered on a rolling basis, so early submission is encouraged

How to Apply

Interested applicants should send a detailed CV and a cover letter by email to jobs@martenscentre.eu. In the subject line of the email, mention the exact name of the position applied for, as stated in the call for applications.

👉 Apply by email: jobs@martenscentre.eu