Dare to Explore! – Traineeship Program
The Dare to Explore! Traineeship Program is an integral part of the EFI-IFSA-IUFRO Capacity Development Project, which offers four specified, 3-months traineeship opportunities each year for 2019, 2020, and 2021. The trainee positions are intended to familiarize students of forest(ry) programmes with work at the science-policy-interface at the international level, including research, communication, and policy-relevant activities.
2020
The 2020 open call has been postponed until further notice, due to CORVID-19 implications.
We will update you here!
2019
In 2019 our DTE! trainees were:
Sophie from the United States on “Guiding Principles to Rights Based Approaches” at GLF in Bonn, Germany
Rodrigo from Brazil on “Science-Policy Interlinkages for the XXV IUFRO World Congress 2019” at IUFRO Headquarter in Vienna Austria.
Damiano from Italy on “Workshop organisation on forest education, employment and green jobs in the forest sector” at EFI in Bonn, Germany
Fredy from Peru on “Conceptualizing rewilding for forests” at EFI in Bonn, Germany
Please see below the open call 2019 including outlines of the traineeships.
Meet our Dare to Explore! trainees and learn about other Intern- and Traineeships IFSA has supported:
My Youth in Landscapes Intern Experience – Poonam Ghimire
My 6 months of internship as a ‘Youth in Landscapes Network Intern’ at Global Landscapes Forum was a very valuable experience. I got to directly engage with the communication, outreach and engagement team and [...]
Dare to Explore! Traineeship experience report – Rodrigo
Caros amigos do IFSA, I am Rodrigo, a Brazilian student doing the master’s program in European Forestry at the University of Eastern Finland (Finland) and Transilvania University of Brasov (Romania). At the end of October, [...]
Meet the Dare to Explore! trainees – Fredy
Meet Fredy, our final trainee for the year 2019. He has just started his traineeship on the rewilding of forests at the EFI office in Bonn. Can you give us a short introduction about [...]
Meet the Dare to Explore! trainees – Damiano
Here it is the interview to the third trainee, Damiano, who has just started his traineeship at the EFI Bonn office. Who are you? Ciao a tutti! My name is Damiano and I am from [...]
Meet the Dare to Explore! trainees – Rodrigo
Time to introduce our second Dare to Explore! trainee. We interviewed Rodrigo who has started his traineeship with IUFRO in Vienna earlier this month. Who are you?Olá, tudo bem? My name is Rodrigo, I am Brazilian [...]
Meet the Dare to Explore! trainees – Sophia
The EFI-IFSA-IUFRO project team has received many great applications for the 2019 Dare to Explore! traineeship program . The selection of candidates was tough, but is now close to being finalized for all 4 traineeship [...]