IFSA Remote International Internships

The following list showcases the variety of recent Remote International Internship opportunities. While some of these internship opportunities may be available for upcoming terms, internship placements do vary from term to term. We will work with you individually to identify a placement that meets your unique personal, academic, and professional goals.

AGRICULTURE & NATURAL RESOURCES

Peru Organization: This non-profit organization works to protect the Peruvian Amazon through long-term research, reforestation, and education projects that seek to understand the core issues behind the loss of the Amazon and their solutions.

Potential Projects: You might contribute in areas such as marketing research and analysis, marketing materials development, grant search and writing, and fundraising strategy.

Italy Organization: This historic Italian association focuses on the protection of the environment and landscape. The local chapter organizes initiatives to raise awareness on environmental issues and urban sustainability, including exhibits, “Clean the World” days, and park maintenance.

Potential Projects: You might help create and edit short videos and other materials about the association’s activities, with a special focus on urban gardens and beekeeping.

Italy Organization: This family-run, award-winning organic winery on the outskirts of Rome specializes in organic wine production and revitalizes native grape varieties.

Potential Projects: You might work with the owners to optimize the winery website and social media presence, and to launch a new e-commerce option.

ARTS & CULTURE

Argentina Organization: This NGO works to defend women’s rights and gender equality through art.

Subject Areas: Arts Administration/Management, Human Rights, Social Justice, Women and Gender Studies

Potential Projects: An intern would be involved in the improvement and systematization of the organization’s archive and documents, the creation of dissemination material, the production of artistic and cultural events, and the co-management of financial support.

Argentina Organization: This organization encourages language practice with people from all over the world, with a focus on the cultural exchange and the values of Argentine cultures. It aims to enrich vocabulary and communication through play and conversation.

Subject Areas: Communications, Cultural Studies, Marketing, Media/Multimedia Studies

Potential Projects: You will participate in various projects such as the coordination of conversation club events, the management of social networks, the creation of content for radio, podcast, Twitch, and TikTok, the writing of articles on interculturality, and the search for national and international funding sources.

Czech Republic Organization: This coaching institution shows artists how to step into their power so they can create art they’ll love and create the kind of world in which they want to live.

Subject Areas: Business, Communications, Marketing

Potential Projects: As an intern, you can assist with operations management, support community management and social media, conduct marketing research, advise on marketing strategies, or develop website content.

BUSINESS & TRADE

Spain Organization: A global manufacturer and provider of hybrid packaging solutions for beauty brands

Subject Areas: Communications, Human Resources, Marketing, Organizational Management

Potential Projects: You can work in areas of the organization including human resources, marketing, international business relations, and global manufacturing.

Spain Organization: Provider of subscription-based meal kits in Barcelona

Subject Areas: Communications, Marketing, Media/Multimedia Studies

Potential Projects: Work on marketing, communications, and web and app design projects.

Czech Republic Organization: This school, one of the largest language services in Prague and the Czech Republic, serves more than 140 corporate clients providing in-company language training programs and independent language testing. In addition, it provides foreign language courses for the public, including private lessons and semester-long classes for groups.

Subject Areas: Communications, Information Technology, Marketing, Teaching English as a Second Language

Potential Projects: You may review marketing strategies and a campaign for a teacher-training program; produce, edit, and review content for international target audiences in various media; assist with reestablishing alumni engagement; help create a pilot English as a Foreign Language teaching program; or develop strategy for implementing a new remote learning program.

China Organization: This is a large venture capital startup incubator with a focus on tech companies. Start-ups apply to the incubator, which matches them with resources to help them grow their business through a successful venture capital funding.

Subject Areas: Finance, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Information Technology, Marketing

Potential Projects: Depending on qualifications and skills, the intern may work directly for the incubator company itself on projects related to venture capital financial analysis or marketing. Alternately, an intern could be placed with a larger startup to work on projects related to project management.

China Organization: This incubator provides innovation and community services to innovators and professionals who aim to accelerate their personal growth and build networks around start-ups, scale-ups, and corporates.

Subject Areas: Business, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Marketing, Media/Multimedia Studies

Potential Projects: You may engage in market research, website management, or business development.

Spain Organization: Coworking, mentoring and networking team

Subject Areas: Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Organizational Management

Potential Projects: From design to international business to sports events planning, you can work on different projects within the coworking community of entrepreneurs and start-ups.

EDUCATION

Spain Organization: Education and mentoring organization

Subject Areas: Education Studies, Marketing

Potential Projects: You can work on marketing and social media for education campaigns, or mentor students to match them with potential future employment.

Mexico Organization: This K-12 school has an ambitious English curriculum but struggles to maintain a high level of English language education. Serving a low-income community, challenges include a lack of teacher training and few native English-speaking tutors.

Subject Areas: Early Childhood Education, Education Studies, Elementary Education, Teaching English as a Second Language

Potential Projects: You can tutor and lead remote English language classes, work with the English coordinator on revising and redeveloping the school’s English curriculum and extra-curricular activities, or work with the school’s English teachers on phonetics, grammar, and general support to better serve their student body.

Italy Organization: This school of Italian language has a special focus on assisting U.S. study abroad programs, while offering a variety of courses in Italian studies, guided tours, advanced training for teachers, and online didactics.

Subject Areas: Education Studies, Marketing, Media/Multimedia Studies

Potential Projects: You would work on renewing the school’s website and social media communication to better appeal to American students. Additionally, the school can assist Education majors in the preparation of lesson models and teaching materials.

India Organization: This “inclusive” preschool through 10th grade school accepts students from all socio-economic backgrounds, including those with physical and mental disabilities. One of the school’s extension is a center for children with severe disabilities, while another extension teaches secondary school students arts and crafts as a vocation.

Subject Areas: Education Studies

Potential Projects: With teaching plans prepared for the coming academic year, you would work to develop teaching materials and tools to assist the preschool and first grade to fourth grade teachers.

India Organization: This K-10 school serves more than 800 children from underprivileged families residing in the old central parts of Pune. Many of the students are the first-generation learners in their family.

Subject Areas: Education Studies, Elementary Education

Potential Projects: You would assist in developing personality development workshops for fifth grade to ninth grade students. Other projects available based upon your skill set.

FINANCIAL SERVICES

Spain Organization: Corporate finance company focused on acquisitions and mergers.

Subject Areas: Business, Finance, Organizational Management

Spain Organization: Accounting and finance firm

Subject Areas: Accounting, Finance, Marketing

Potential Projects: You can work on market research and analysis, financial trends, multinational consulting, and auditing projects.

HEALTH SERVICES

Mexico Organization: This public hospital specializes in health care for the entire south east of Mexico. You will work with a medical doctor on two projects related to post-COVID-19 social impact and educating the general public on health practices.

Subject Areas: Medical Anthropology, Public/Global Health,

Potential Projects: You can study post COVID-19 behaviors including the inequities of society; incidents of gender violence as a result; intrafamily violence; racism and discrimination; hunger; increase in crime levels. Or, you may assist in teaching the general population what it means to go to the doctor, working on myths and stereotypes, and developing strategies to provide a health education to the larger community.

India Organization: The mission of this NGO hospital research center is to conduct research in areas which affect the life of common people, with an emphasis on women and children. Areas of research include reproductive and child health, adolescent health, HIV and AIDS, quality of health services, women’s development, and various clinical topics. In addition to its ICU facilities, it has medical, surgical, and pediatric departments.

Subject Areas: Public/Global Health

Potential Projects: You may work on projects related to literature review, data analysis, and preparing awareness materials for COVID-19, reproductive health, mental health, child sexual abuse, and HIV.

India Organization: This independent charitable organization works to better the lives of low-income communities in Pune through a range of family welfare programs such as education, healthcare, child development, and women’s empowerment.

Subject Areas: Public Health

Potential Projects: On the background of COVID-19, the organization would have you prepare awareness material for their target population. They also work with women, adolescents, and HIV+ people regarding their health and nutrition. Depending on student interest, the work may be designed for a team of students.

China Organization: This digital health solution provider aims to build the largest digital healthcare ecosystem of its kind in the region.

Subject Areas: Business, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Health Administration/Management, Information Technology

Potential Projects: You may work in market/product research or database development.

GOVERNMENT & LAW

Argentina Organization: This international NGO promotes citizen participation, transparency, and access to public information to strengthen democratic institutions through collective action. It is also engaged in research and actions in areas such as elections, justice, legislative work, and corruption.

Subject Areas: International Studies/Affairs/Relations, Law/Legal Studies, Political Science, Public Policy/Policy Studies

Potential Projects: You may work in areas such as oversight of public expenditures; monitoring the functioning of the executive, parliament, and judiciary; assisting in the presentation of bills; assisting with reports on campaigns and the electoral processes; and translation and production of dissemination material.

Czech Republic Organization: This non-profit, human rights organization works to protect the rights of foreigners in the Czech Republic.

Subject Areas: Communications

Potential Projects: You will engage in international research and write reports to support the fair migration policy project.

Czech Republic Organization: The mission of this U.S. not-for-profit institute, based in Prague, is to advance the rule of law in the world. It works to protect fundamental rights and individual liberties; promote transparent, incorruptible, accountable governments; lay the foundation for economic opportunity and growth; and encourage peaceful resolution of disputes.

Subject Areas: Communications, Law/Legal Studies, Public Relations,

Potential Projects: As an intern you may collaborate on event organization, write research reports, and producing and editing content for the institute’s local and international activities.

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Spain Organization: A crowdfunding site which focuses on projects which generate a collective return through promoting the common, open source code and/or free knowledge.

Subject Areas: Advertising, Communications, Social Work

Potential Projects: You can work on different projects to promote the organization and expand its visibility.

Spain Organization: Developer of professional software for retail management

Subject Areas: Business, Computer Science, Marketing

Potential Projects: Work on operations, sports business, and retail projects.

Czech Republic Organization: This independent consulting firm, based in Switzerland with a branch office in Prague, provides technology consulting guidance, services, and solutions to more than 1,000 businesses worldwide.

Subject Areas: Business, Computer Science, Human Resources, Marketing

Potential Projects: You may work in Human Resources assisting with recruitment support; in Marketing supporting communication management market analysis; in Computing reviewing code and helping with in-house software development; or in Finance helping with basic account and payroll services.

China Organization: This tech company represents a wide array of ticket sales across China and Asia for events such music and art, movies, theatre, sport, comedy, tours, and classes.

Subject Areas: Information Technology, Marketing

Potential Projects: This company relies heavily on data analysis of customer engagement and ticket promotions to maximize discounts and sales. You would engage in ongoing data analytics strategy, and analyze different approaches to various forms of customer engagement and sales across multiple social media platforms.

LEISURE & HOSPITALITY

Argentina Organization: This Buenos Aires city government office promotes Buenos Aires as a destination for study abroad and provides services to and activities for foreign students in the city.

Subject Areas: Advertising, Communications, Marketing

Potential Projects: You would be involved in the implementation of marketing projects.

Spain Organization: Government tourism agency

Subject Areas: Communications, Marketing

Potential Projects: Work on social media marketing and international campaigns promoting Cataluña tourism.

Mexico Organization: Working with one of largest hotel chains in Latin America, you will have an opportunity to think about tourism and what that represents in a country that so heavily relies on it, the type of population this is catered to, and its impact on a fragile economy and ecosystem.

Subject Areas: Hospitality & Tourism, Media/Multimedia Studies, Marketing, Sociology

Potential Projects: You can work on marketing research and analysis, handling social networks, and translation of specific ads and promotional materials.

Italy Organization: This small, family-run cooking school specializes in English-speaking clients and study abroad. The school works only with small groups to offer a tailored service, and aims to recreate an authentic and shared experience by stressing the value of good food prepared at home, even without previous experience or expensive equipment.

Subject Areas: Communications, Hospitality & Tourism, Marketing

Potential Projects: You would on the school website to enhance its appeal, including possibly adding cooking lesson videos. Projects may also include expanding the school’s audience through social media.

MEDIA & COMMUNICATIONS

Italy Organization: This online blog publishes content for the creative industries in the areas of fashion and technology.

Subject Areas: Communications, Fashion Marketing and Merchandising, Marketing

Potential Projects: If you are interested in the areas of digital marketing or content marketing, this internship would allow you to create blog posts for the website, learn about inbound marketing, and develop highly marketable skills in the fashion industry.

Italy Organization: This Rome-based, independent, English-language, online magazine covers everything Italy-related, offering news and opinion about politics, economy, culture, and sports.

Subject Areas: Communications, Journalism, Marketing

Potential Projects: You will help with content creation for the magazine and promotion.

Italy Organization: This English-language event and lifestyle magazine is targeted to tourists and expats visiting or living in Rome. It includes a daily listing of the latest and most diverse cultural and lifestyle events in and around Rome.

Subject Areas: Communications, Journalism, Marketing

Potential Projects: You will help with content creation for the magazine and promotion. You can also be involved in the creation of a new Florence branch of the magazine.

SOCIAL SERVICES

Argentina Organization: This NGO’s objective is to raise awareness about the importance of the Right to Play in every child’s life. To this end, it proposes recreational and educational activities to enrich the social and cultural environment.

Subject Areas: Human and Child Development, Human Services, Social Policy, Social Work

Potential Projects: As an intern, you may assist with translation of specific bibliography, social media management, or investigate financial aid, grants, fundraising opportunities, and potential donors.

Argentina Organization: This NGO promotes initiatives for women, young people, and families in the vulnerable, suburban neighborhoods of Buenos. It focuses on housing, education, and labor integration.

Subject Areas: Human and Child Development, Human Rights, Social Justice, Women and Gender Studies

Potential Projects: You may be assisting with data systematization, report elaboration, production of dissemination material in English, and organization of training events.

Peru Organization: This non-profit organization works on behalf of paid domestic workers to ensure their labor rights are respected including fair pay, worker benefits, and safe working conditions.

Subject Areas: Finance, Human Rights, Marketing, Student Teaching

Potential Projects: You may work as a community manager for the organization’s social media accounts or assist with fundraising strategy.

India Organization: This organization focuses on sustainable socio-economic development through granting micro-finance loans, imparting skills and vocational training, and availing health services through micro-insurance plans. Additionally, the organization successfully runs training, family security, education, and awareness programs.

Subject Areas: Finance

Potential Projects: Projects will be based on your specific skill set.

China Organization: A not-for-profit charitable organization registered in Shanghai with a mission to improve the education and general welfare of disadvantaged children in China.

Subject Areas: Elementary Education, Human and Child Development

Potential Projects: You will assist in teaching material development and class coordination.

After you complete the program, IFSA will send an official Butler University transcript to your home university with your coursework converted to the U.S. credit system. You will also have access to an unofficial transcript in your IFSA Student Portal. The transcript reflects courses taken, credits attempted, and grades earned during your program. This service is included in your IFSA program at no additional cost.