Time is nearly up on these. There are 16 opportunities open right now across 8 countries, and every one of them closes on 12 or 13 August 2026: eight internships inside the World Bank Group in Washington and Kuwait, from the Business Ready report and the Women, Business and the Law index to an AI anti-corruption Data Lab, plus fully funded ESC placements in France, Italy and Belgium, two Erasmus+ courses, and library and research internships in Portugal. If your CV has been waiting for a name like the World Bank, this is the moment. Start at the top.
The funding picture is mixed. Most of the World Bank and IFC internships are unpaid, which is standard for these institutions, but they carry a name that opens doors for years. The Portugal library and research roles come with an Erasmus+ traineeship grant. The three ESC placements are fully funded, covering travel, accommodation, food, insurance and a monthly allowance, and the two Erasmus+ courses in Germany and Spain cover travel and stay. What they all share is the deadline: applications close on 12 or 13 August 2026.
In This Batch
Internships
- 🇵🇹 Portugal — digital and physical library intern · 📅 12 Aug
- 🇵🇹 Portugal — research and teaching intern · 📅 12 Aug
- 🇺🇸 United States — Business Ready research, World Bank · 📅 12 Aug
- 🇰🇼 Kuwait — country operations, World Bank Group · 📅 12 Aug
- 🇺🇸 United States — green building energy codes, World Bank · 📅 12 Aug
- 🇰🇼 Kuwait — private sector engagements at IFC · 📅 12 Aug
- 🇺🇸 United States — Women, Business and the Law research, World Bank · 📅 12 Aug
- 🇺🇸 United States — data analysis and AI for WBL, World Bank · 📅 12 Aug
- 🇺🇸 United States — AI Engineer, anti-corruption, World Bank · 📅 12 Aug
- 🇺🇸 United States — financial inclusion and infrastructure, World Bank · 📅 13 Aug
ESC Volunteering
11. 🇫🇷 France — European ambassador for eco awareness · 📅 12 Aug
12. 🇮🇹 Italy — food sustainability and culture at ASK · 📅 12 Aug
13. 🇧🇪 Belgium — youth participation and democracy · 📅 12 Aug
14. 🇮🇹 Italy — working with teenagers at a Milan youth centre · 📅 13 Aug
Erasmus+ Training Courses
15. 🇩🇪 Germany — digital comics for inclusion · 📅 12 Aug
16. 🇪🇸 Spain — digital competence for youth work · 📅 12 Aug
10 Internships · 4 ESC Volunteering Placements · 2 Erasmus+ Courses · 8 Countries · All Closing 12 to 13 August 2026
💼 Internships
1. 🇵🇹 Internship in Portugal 📚 Digital and Physical Library Intern at a Non-Profit European Institute 💻 (Erasmus+ grant)
📅 Deadline: 12 August 2026
Love libraries, books and digital organisation? For Citizens European Institute is looking for an intern to build its digital library, run reading events and join community outreach in Portugal. A great fit for a future librarian. Apply here →
2. 🇵🇹 Internship in Portugal 📚 Research and 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. Apply here →
3. 🇺🇸 Internship in the United States 📊 Business Ready Research and Data at the World Bank 🏛️
📅 Deadline: 12 August 2026
The report that scores the business environment of almost every economy on earth is built by a team that takes interns. Legal research on topic-specific regulations, administering expert questionnaires, merging and validating raw Stata datasets, maintaining country indicators, and turning findings into blogs, infographics and presentations. Apply here →
4. 🇰🇼 Internship in Kuwait 🏛️ Country Operations at the World Bank Group 📈
📅 Deadline: 12 August 2026
An internship embedded across IFC, CMU, ECR and GGP, working on the World Bank Group's actual country engagement in Kuwait. Background research feeding sector briefs and policy notes, portfolio monitoring and reporting, organising stakeholder engagements with government counterparts, and drafting briefing materials for senior management and missions. Apply here →
5. 🇺🇸 Internship in the United States 🏢 Building Green Research on Energy Codes at the World Bank 🌱
📅 Deadline: 12 August 2026
Buildings are one of the largest sources of global emissions, and this project is mapping the codes meant to fix that, city by city. Desk research on building energy code stringency, coverage and enforcement, standardizing data into comparable country profiles, recruiting technical contributors, and producing graphs, statistics and regulatory analyses for a two-year global dataset. Apply here →
6. 🇰🇼 Internship in Kuwait 📈 Private Sector Engagements at IFC and the World Bank Group 🤝
📅 Deadline: 12 August 2026
Sitting inside IFC while it works on Kuwait's economic diversification, close enough to see how private sector deals actually get built. Analysis of private sector trends, investment climate and sector competitiveness, business development materials and project documentation, market research and pipeline development, plus sector briefs and stakeholder engagements with government counterparts. Apply here →
7. 🇺🇸 Internship in the United States ⚖️ Women, Business and the Law Research at the World Bank 📊
📅 Deadline: 12 August 2026
One index tracks the laws limiting women's work and enterprise across 190 economies, and this internship helps build it. Comparative legal research on family, labour and violence against women laws, verifying country files against primary sources, econometric analysis of the data, contributor and Government Focal Point outreach, and dissemination through workshops, webinars and the annual report launch. Apply here →
8. 🇺🇸 Internship in the United States 📊 Data Analysis and AI for Women, Business and the Law at the World Bank 🤖
📅 Deadline: 12 August 2026
The index tracking women's legal rights across 190 economies is only as good as its data, and this role keeps it clean. Cleaning and reconciling large multi-source datasets, building API-ready JSON outputs, piloting AI workflows for data quality and validation, and turning it all into Tableau and Power BI visualizations for technical and non-technical audiences. Apply here →
9. 🇺🇸 Internship in the United States 🤖 AI Engineer for Integrity and Anti-Corruption at the World Bank 🛡️
📅 Deadline: 12 August 2026
The team that investigates fraud in World Bank projects runs a Data Lab building AI agents, and it takes interns. Designing and fine-tuning LLM-based agents, iterating on prompts, optimising retrieval-augmented generation pipelines on Azure, integrating models with front-end and back-end teams, and evaluating emerging agentic AI frameworks over a 150-day placement. Apply here →
10. 🇺🇸 Internship in the United States 💳 Financial Inclusion and Infrastructure at the World Bank 🏦
📅 Deadline: 13 August 2026
The team advising central banks on how to bring small businesses and individuals into the financial system takes an undergraduate intern into the data. Web scraping and API integration to build datasets, coding analysis in Stata, R or Python, integrating LLMs into research, and leading your own project, from crypto payment patterns to AI-assisted document review. Apply here →
🌱 ESC Volunteering Opportunities
11. 🇫🇷 ESC Volunteering in France ♻️ European Ambassador for Eco Awareness at a Youth Residence 🌍
📅 Deadline: 12 August 2026
Work with young people at a youth residence in central France, bringing a European dimension and intercultural opening-up to the organisation's actions. Your main role is to raise local young people's awareness of European countries and, especially, of environmental issues and eco-friendly practices. Along the way you get to develop into a facilitator for European projects and international workcamps, and even co-lead a group of international volunteers. Open to applicants from 🇮🇹 🇩🇪 🇵🇹 🇱🇻 🇺🇦 and 24 more. Apply here →
12. 🇮🇹 ESC Volunteering in Italy 🍽️ Food Sustainability and Culture at the ASK Space 🎨
📅 Deadline: 12 August 2026
Promote new environmental, social and economic sustainability starting from a critical look at how we consume food. Through bottom-up food education workshops open to everyone, you help build a culture of food sustainability that avoids waste and consumerism, and support an innovative civic food network creating short, ethical supply chains. The work is hosted at ASK, a multifunctional space alive with concerts, book presentations, talks, tastings, workshops and language tandems. Open to applicants from 🇮🇹 🇵🇹 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 🇪🇪 and 6 more. Apply here →
13. 🇧🇪 ESC Volunteering in Belgium 🗳️ Youth Participation and Democracy 🤝
📅 Deadline: 12 August 2026
Put young people at the heart of decision-making in Brussels. With JAVVA you help grow a community of volunteers, co-facilitate workshops, create educational tools and drive a participatory-democracy project that strengthens youth voice in governance. A varied mix of fieldwork and reflection. Open to applicants from 🇧🇪 🇮🇹 🇪🇸 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 and 17 more. Apply here →
14. 🇮🇹 ESC Volunteering in Italy ⚽ Working with Teenagers at a Milan Youth Center 🎨
📅 Deadline: 13 August 2026
Sport, art and real connection with teens who need it most. At the Tempo per il Barrio youth center in Milan you support teenagers from disadvantaged and immigrant backgrounds: after-school help, arts and human-rights workshops, sports matches, intercultural events and social media. Sporty and empathetic? This is for you. Open to applicants from 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇪🇸 🇵🇱 🇵🇹 and 24 more. Apply here →
🎓 Erasmus+ Opportunities
15. 🇩🇪 Erasmus+ Training Course in Germany ✏️ Digital Comics for Inclusion 🎨
📅 Deadline: 12 August 2026
Turn comics into a tool for inclusion. This fully funded Erasmus+ training course in Munich equips youth workers with digital comics and Web 2.0 tools (Pixton, Canva, StoryboardThat) to create engaging, inclusive activities for young people with fewer opportunities. Expect hands-on workshops, a World Café, intercultural evenings and a co-created Digital Comics Toolkit. Open to applicants from 🇩🇪 🇮🇹 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 🇹🇷 and 3 more. Apply here →
16. 🇪🇸 Erasmus+ Training Course in Spain 💻 Digital Competence for Youth Work 🚀
📅 Deadline: 12 August 2026
Level up how you bring digital skills into youth work. This fully funded Erasmus+ training course in Barcelona dives into the DigComp 3.0 framework, hands-on workshops and a hackathon where you co-create real digital solutions for young people. Leave with concrete activity designs and stronger facilitation skills. Open to applicants from 🇩🇪 🇦🇹 🇮🇹 🇵🇹 🇪🇸 Apply here →
From eight internships inside the World Bank Group in Washington and Kuwait to fully funded ESC volunteering in France, Italy and Belgium, digital youth work courses in Germany and Spain and library work in Portugal, this is a strong last-chance batch spanning prestige institutions and funded volunteering. Most of the World Bank roles close on 12 August, with the financial inclusion internship and the Milan youth placement running to 13 August. If one of them fits, do not wait: check your eligibility, open the link and apply before the window shuts.
