From remotely monitoring International Criminal Court proceedings with Africa Legal Aid and street youth work at an LGBT+ NGO in Ljubljana, to turning climate-harming CO2 into bio-based chemicals through gas fermentation in Ghent, geotechnical soil testing beneath Swiss construction sites, refugee youth mentoring and asylum-seeker support with the International Rescue Committee across the United States, a paid transport-sales route in Austria, and a global internship at the New Development Bank (BRICS) in Shanghai — this batch of 21 internships and traineeships spans 10 countries across four continents. Paid roles, Erasmus+-grant placements and international-organisation internships, for students and graduates in law, biotech, the arts, engineering, social work and finance.
Some of these are paid or salaried, some come with an Erasmus+ grant or stipend, and several are unpaid but built around genuine field experience at serious institutions. The earliest deadline is 30 July, and the calendar runs all the way to 31 December 2026, so there's something here whether you're moving this summer or planning for next year.
What's in this batch:
21 Internships & Traineeships · 10 Countries · Deadlines from July to December 2026
🌍 Humanitarian, Human Rights & Refugee Support
🌍 Remote — Human Rights and International Justice at Africa Legal Aid ⚖️
📅 Deadline: 30 July 2026
Have a legal background and a passion for human rights? Join Africa Legal Aid (AFLA) for a remote internship in international justice. Contribute to research, advocacy and capacity-building, monitor ICC proceedings, and support flagship publications, all under experienced lawyers — serious international-justice experience from wherever you are.
🇸🇮 Slovenia — Youth and Community Work at an LGBT+ NGO Supporting Vulnerable Groups 🤝
📅 Deadline: 31 July 2026
Join a community-based NGO in Ljubljana and get real field experience in street youth work, workshops, research and grant writing. Support marginalised young people and intersectional communities while learning how a grassroots organisation truly works — frontline grassroots experience you can't get from a textbook.
🇺🇸 United States — Refugee Youth Mentoring and Tutoring at the IRC (Maryland) 🤝
📅 Deadline: 21 August 2026
Passionate about education and refugee youth? Join the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in Silver Spring, Maryland, for a Fall 2026 internship. Across tutoring and mentoring tracks, help young people build their English, confidence, and plans for college and careers — an IRC line on your CV and real impact on young lives.
🇺🇸 United States — Asylum Seeker Program Support at the IRC (New York) ⚖️
📅 Deadline: 1 September 2026
A US-based student passionate about immigration and social justice? Join the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in New York. Support a case management program for asylum seekers, helping recent arrivals access healthcare, benefits, housing and legal services — hands-on casework at the sharp end of immigration support.
🇺🇸 United States — Healthcare and Benefits Navigation at the IRC (New York) 🏥
📅 Deadline: 1 September 2026
A US-based student passionate about helping refugees and immigrants? Join the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in New York. Support newly arrived refugees in accessing healthcare and public benefits, gaining hands-on experience in humanitarian resettlement and community services — the practical work that helps a new arrival find their feet.
🇺🇸 United States — Refugee Youth Education Programming at the IRC (New Jersey) 🎓
📅 Deadline: 2 September 2026
A US-based student passionate about education and refugee youth? Join the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Help recently arrived refugee and immigrant youth adapt to school and prepare for college and careers through after-school programming — a chance to change where a young newcomer's life can go.
🇩🇪 Germany — Peace Studies & Peace Library Assistant at Off-University (Berlin / Leipzig / Remote) 📚
📅 Deadline: 21 October 2026
Into peace and conflict studies, with an eye for detail? Off-University, a "University Without Borders" founded by academics exiled from Turkey, is offering a part-time internship supporting Critical Peace Studies, two Berlin events and an online Peace Library. Berlin, Leipzig or remote, 3 to 6 months (unpaid, Erasmus+ mobility grant required) — academic work with a real moral spine.
🏛️ EU Public Affairs & Policy (Brussels)
🇧🇪 Belgium — Health Public Affairs Trainee Consultant 📊 (Paid)
📅 Deadline: 31 July 2026
A policy nerd passionate about health at European and global level? Join Acumen Public Affairs in Brussels as a paid Health Trainee Consultant. Monitor policy, conduct research, and support senior consultants while building your EU health public affairs career — a paid launchpad into Brussels health policy.
🇧🇪 Belgium — Sustainability Public Affairs Trainee Consultant 📊 (Paid)
📅 Deadline: 31 July 2026
A policy nerd passionate about sustainability, energy and circular economy? Join Acumen Public Affairs in Brussels as a paid Sustainability Trainee Consultant. Monitor policy, conduct research, and support senior consultants while fast-tracking your EU public affairs career — the same paid fast-track, on the green-policy side.
🇧🇪 Belgium — Communications and Events at a Renewable Energy Industry Alliance ⚡
📅 Deadline: 25 September 2026
Passionate about communications and clean energy? Join the Alliance for Renewable Electrification (ARE) in Brussels as a Communications and Events Intern. Create content, help run flagship events, and support a global mission to advance sustainable energy access — comms experience behind a genuine clean-energy mission.
🔬 STEM, Engineering & Architecture
🇧🇪 Belgium — Gas Fermentation and Carbon Capture Research at a Bio-Based Pilot Plant ♻️ (€300/month)
📅 Deadline: 28 August 2026
Biotechnology and bio-engineering students: join Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant in Ghent through IAESTE. Help turn climate-harming CO2 into valuable bio-based chemicals through gas fermentation, conducting research that scales up into a real industrial process — carbon capture you can actually put your hands on.
🇨🇭 Switzerland — Geotechnical Site Investigation at an Engineering Office 🏗️ (CHF 2,500/month + allowance)
📅 Deadline: 28 August 2026
Civil engineering and geology students: join Geoprofile GmbH through IAESTE and investigate the ground beneath construction sites across Switzerland. Assist with soil soundings and foundation tests in the field, and learn how the subsoil really behaves — fieldwork at Swiss standards and Swiss pay.
🇩🇪 Germany — Sustainable Ecological Architecture Intern at terrain: integral designs BDA 🏛️ (Paid)
📅 Deadline: 31 August 2026
Architecture or landscape student with strong CAD skills and a passion for ecology? terrain: integral designs BDA in Munich is offering a 6-month paid internship in sustainable ecological architecture, contributing to award-winning, performance-driven projects that integrate living systems into design — a paid line on your CV that design studios notice.
🇦🇹 Austria — Transport Sales Manager at an International Logistics Company 📦 (€2,350/month)
📅 Deadline: 28 November 2026
Business students with strong German: take charge of your own transport route at FERCAM Austria through IAESTE. Negotiate with international partners, grow your client portfolio, and earn a salary plus bonus, with the chance of permanent employment afterwards — the best-paid role here, with a real job at the end of it.
🎨 Creative, Education & Business Internships
🇪🇸 Spain — English-Speaking Language Assistant at a Primary School 🗣️
📅 Deadline: 31 July 2026
Dreaming of teaching abroad and living a real cultural immersion? A welcoming public primary school in Spain is looking for an English-speaking assistant to help children aged 6 to 12 build their speaking and listening through games, conversations and interactive activities. Free accommodation is provided, and you'll earn a certificate of participation at the end — teach abroad with your rent already covered.
🇵🇹 Portugal — Project Management Intern at InspectOS (Home Inspection PropTech) 🏠
📅 Deadline: 31 July 2026
Organised and into project management, operations or startups? InspectOS, a Lisbon-based PropTech home-inspection platform, is hiring a Project Management Intern to coordinate operations, marketing and growth projects across a fast-moving international team. On-site in the Lisbon area, 3 to 6 months (unpaid, can align with Erasmus+) — startup pace, real ownership, sunny Lisbon.
🇪🇸 Spain — Project Management Intern at Traducciones Abroad (Translation Agency) 🌍
📅 Deadline: 31 July 2026
Fluent in Spanish and interested in project management? Traducciones Abroad, a translation agency in Córdoba, is offering a part-time Project Management internship, learning customer service, quoting and coordinating translation projects, with a month of training to start. Unpaid, dates flexible — learn how a language business really runs, from the inside.
🇵🇹 Portugal — Research & Teaching Intern at a Non-Profit European Institute 🎓 (Erasmus+ grant)
📅 Deadline: 12 August 2026
For Citizens - European Institute is offering a research and teaching internship in Portugal, covering research projects, e-learning content, online lectures, seminars and tuition. A solid fit for education, languages and social sciences students — your first taste of academic teaching, grant-supported.
🇵🇹 Portugal — Visual Communication & Social Media Intern at N Studio Lisbon (Music Production Studio) 📸
📅 Deadline: 31 August 2026
Creative eye, into photography, video and music? N Studio Lisbon, an acoustic music production studio, is looking for a Visual Communication & Social Media Intern to capture recording sessions and shape the studio's visual identity across social media and web. Part-time, 6 to 12 months in Lisbon (unpaid, Erasmus+ encouraged) — a creative portfolio built where the music is made.
🇵🇹 Portugal — Art Association Manager Intern at Prisma Estúdio 🖼️
📅 Deadline: 1 September 2026
Art enthusiast with an eye for organisation? Prisma Estúdio is offering a 6-month internship in Lisbon, helping run an art studio, event space and artist residency, coordinating events, exhibitions and gallery admin. Part-time (2 to 3 days/week), no experience required (unpaid) — a foot in the door of Lisbon's art scene.
🏦 International Finance
🇨🇳 China — Global Internship Programme at the New Development Bank 📊
📅 Deadline: 31 December 2026
A young graduate from an NDB member country keen on international development finance? Join the New Development Bank (BRICS) in Shanghai. Gain hands-on experience across research, projects and reporting in a dynamic, multicultural environment — a rare seat inside one of the newest players in global finance.
Twenty-one internships and traineeships across 10 countries in a single batch — and the range of fields here is unusually broad. Monitoring ICC proceedings with Africa Legal Aid, gas fermentation turning CO2 into chemicals in Ghent, refugee youth mentoring and asylum-seeker casework with the IRC across three US states, geotechnical soil testing in Switzerland, a paid transport-sales route in Austria, and a global internship at the New Development Bank in Shanghai — these are not roles you'll see grouped together again.
Portugal leads with four Lisbon-area placements spanning PropTech, a music studio, an art residency and a research institute, while Belgium offers four Brussels roles across paid public affairs, clean-energy communications and biotech research. The United States brings four IRC humanitarian internships — though note these are for US-based students. The paid and salaried options cluster in engineering and business (the FERCAM sales route in Austria, the Swiss geotechnical role, the terrain architecture internship and the two paid Acumen traineeships), while several creative and education roles are unpaid but pair naturally with an Erasmus+ grant. The Africa Legal Aid remote role closes first on 30 July, a busy cluster of Spanish, Portuguese and Brussels roles follows on 31 July, and the calendar runs all the way to the New Development Bank in Shanghai on 31 December. Choose yours.
