Internship at Finabel (INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, EUROPEAN STUDIES, SECURITY STUDIES, POLITICAL SCIENCES, MARKETING & COMMUNICATION, SOCIAL SCIENCES)

Finabel is a Permanent Secretariat, a 

Land Force Organisation based in Brussels which is comprised of 22 

Members of the European Union, promoting cooperation and 

interoperability among the Members' armed forces.

Currently, our Organisation is looking for new trainees and we would be 

grateful if we could begin a partnership between Finabel and your 

University in order to give students new internship opportunities within 

an international context.

The internship is UNPAID unless the student applies to an Erasmus 

Placement Scholarship through the University.

We are interested in the following fields:

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

EUROPEAN STUDIES

SECURITY STUDIES

POLITICAL SCIENCES

MARKETING & COMMUNICATION

SOCIAL SCIENCES

The student must have a good knowledge of English preferable C1, and 

must have at least a Bachelor’s degree, or higher.

Finabel offers an internship role in two domains; Research and Lobbying 

Intern and a Communications Intern.

The Research and Lobbying Intern will be assigned the following tasks:

ADMINISTRATIVE TASKS, such as gathering information related to Finabel's 

activities;

RESEARCH within a small multicultural team on Finabel's topics and 

European defense in order to write and publish Food for Thought/papers;

DEVELOP an individual research paper, to be handed in at the end of the 

traineeship.

TAKE PART in Finabel conferences abroad, as well as with other Member 

States

The Communications Intern will be assigned the following tasks:

Creation of marketing and communication tools

Organise and oversee all social media platforms

Prefered experience of wordpress or website management

Initiative to develop the communications department further

The internship should last at least three months, but the duration as 

well as the schedule are very flexible.

Students that are interested should send their candidature in English 

(CV + cover letter) to Mr. Mario Blokken at the following email address: 

traineemanager@finabel.org.

This offer has no deadline, so candidates can apply at any time.

A confirmation e-mail for would be greatly appreciated. Please do not 

hesitate to contact me at this e-mail address for any further questions 

or clarifications.