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International Internships

American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT) Fellowships

ARIT supports and administers programs of fellowships for scholarly research and for language study in Turkey. Programs for scholars and graduate students based in the U.S. and Canada include the ARIT, the ARIT National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship programs, and the ARIT Summer Language Program at Boğazici University in Istanbul (pending funding).

  • Stipend provided
  • Applications due by November 1

NEH-ARIT Research Fellowships

The American Research Institute in Turkey is pleased to invite applications for one to three advanced long-term fellowships for research in affiliation with ARIT centers in Turkey, supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The fields of study cover all periods of history in the general range of the humanities and include humanistically oriented aspects of the social sciences, prehistory, history, art, archaeology, literature, and linguistics, as well as interdisciplinary aspects of cultural history. The fellowships tenures range from four to twelve continuous months during 2024-2025.

  • $5,000/month stipend provided
  • Applications due by November 1

Asia Foundation LeadNext Fellowships

With the profound structural changes that will transform geopolitics, global governance, the global economic order, and social landscape over the next decade, a new generation of globally minded leaders is imperative. The LeadNext program equips emerging leaders across cultures and disciplines with strong international networks, exposure to wide-ranging experiences, and leadership tools to thoughtfully steer the future.

  • Fully funded
  • Leadership training, monthly virtual masterclasses, Global Leaders Summit, and fellow mentorship
  • Applications typically due by October
  • Eligibility

TFAS International Academic Programs

TFAS hosts international academic programs for current university students and young professionals in South America, Asia, and Europe. Through these programs, we provide a rigorous academic experience, foster dialogues that cross borders, and seek to create a global network of responsible future leaders.

  • $2,000-$3,750 program cost (85% of students receive full or partial merit awards)
  • Housing and meals provided
  • Applications typically due in January for 2-3 week programs in July

The Bridge Year Fellowship

The Bridge Year Fellowship will be awarded this spring to one second-semester sophomore who will take a year away from UNC to engage in international service before returning in Fall 2024. Fellows return to college with life lessons that leave them better prepared to take full advantage of their undergraduate careers. Experiential learning through traveling, working, and engaging in service allows students to develop skills that a classroom cannot provide.

  • Applications accepted April-May

The Class of 1938 Fellowship Program

The UNC-Chapel Hill Alumni Class of 1938 annually awards summer study abroad fellowships to U.S. students interested in pursuing independent career or personal projects outside the United States.

  • $5,000 stipend provided
  • Summer
  • Sophomores and Juniors
  • Eligibility

Conflict Transformation Across Borders

Led by an international faculty of peace building practitioners and scholars, this summer institute in Ecuador is designed to equip early-career professionals, graduate and advanced undergraduate students, and other future peace builders with practical tools, knowledge, and hands-on experience to understand the complexities of conflicts within and across border regions, and the types of interventions that can be used to transform these conflicts

  • 3-week program

CRCC Asia Scholarships

CRCC Asia pioneers in organizing international internship programs in China, Japan, Vietnam, South Korea, and the UK. We are committed to fostering a community of global career-ready graduates, equipped with diverse and sought after skills, who will be employable all over the world.

Critical Language Scholarship (CLS)

The Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program is an intensive overseas language and cultural immersion program for American students enrolled at U.S. colleges and universities. The program includes intensive language instruction and structured cultural enrichment experiences designed to promote rapid language gains.

  • Funded
  • Room, board, language instruction, visa fees, and travel within host country paid for
  • 8-10 weeks
  • Non-competitive eligibility for U.S. government employment upon completion
  • Applications for the 2024 CLS program are due November 14, 2023

The Duke Global Policy (DGP) Program in Geneva

Through summer internships and an intensive, one-week course, fellows gain unparalleled access to UN agencies and leading Geneva-based institutions. Fellows benefit from Duke’s well-regarded reputation and wide network to secure the best internships possible. While fellows are ultimately responsible for securing their own internships, they will receive individualized assistance and have access to Duke’s deep organizational contacts. The one-week intensive course is designed to complement students’ internships. Throughout the course week, students participate in lectures and seminars, visit leading international institutions, case studies, and network with top experts in their field.

  • Program costs $3,500-4,000
  • Funding must be secured privately or from other scholarships, grants, or fellowships
  • Two tracks: Humanitarian Crises, Refugees & Human Rights; Global Health
  • Non-competitive eligibility for U.S. government employment upon completion

Energy Poverty Fellowship

Students will spend the summer (early May through mid-August) preparing for and engaged in research on energy poverty in Southern Africa. Students will work with EPPSA faculty and the broader research team on social or natural science, or engineering aspects of planned impact evaluation studies in Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe, on population-level sociodemographic and spatial analyses, or on engineering or forest biomaterials topics related to EPPSA.

  • Not currently offered to undergraduates
  • $30,000/year stipend provided for up to 3 years
  • Travel funds provided in 2 of 3 years to conduct research in Southern Africa
  • Service requirements vary by year

Entrepreneurship & Development: International Internship in Mexico

The Human Connections internship program gives students a hands-on experience working at a leading responsible tourism and study abroad social enterprise. Programs are relatively small (8-16 interns), and the intimate nature of the experience encourages professional development, a tight bond between interns, and the opportunity to expand your comfort zone in a supportive environment.

  • Suspended indefinitely

Foreign Language & Areas Studies Fellowship

FLAS fellowships fund the study of Less Commonly Taught Languages and area studies coursework. This program provides academic year and summer fellowships to assist graduate students and advanced undergraduates in foreign language and area studies.

  • Stipend and possibly additional funding
  • Summer or year-long programs offered
  • Applications accepted October-February

The German Chancellor Fellowship

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation is searching for the leaders of tomorrow – from Brazil, China, India, Russia, and the USA. The German Chancellor Fellowship offers you an opportunity to take the next career step in Germany – irrespective of your field of work. In order to apply, develop your own project idea and find the host of your choice to mentor you.

  • One year in Germany
  • Intensive language course
  • €2,000-2,600 grant provided
  • Additional funding support provided for travel costs, mobility, insurance, family accommodations
  • Applications typically due in October

Ghana Health and Education Initiative (GHEI)

GHEI Summer Serve and Learn (SSL) Volunteer Programs offer participants the chance to be immersed in a rural Ghanaian community and work alongside local staff members in support of a small community development organization’s year-round health and education programs. All volunteers will have the opportunity to develop and strengthen their skills in cross-cultural communication, project design and implementation, monitoring and evaluation, and community outreach, all while working in a low-resource environment alongside local and international counterparts to achieve a common goal.

GIVE Volunteers

Travel the world to change your life and improve other people’s lives. Learn how to make an impact overseas hand-in-hand with the locals and Be the Roots of Change! Immerse yourself in a foreign culture, have an adventure of a lifetime, and help communities abroad by joining GIVE! GIVE offers authentic and transformative experiences designed to fully immerse you in each country’s unique landscape, culture and charm. Our volunteer excursions range from 2-4 weeks and provide you with a perfect combination of meaningful project work, cultural immersion and off-the-beaten-path adventure.

The Global Citizen Fellowship Program

At Global Citizen we encourage people to learn and take action on our platform; those actions apply pressure on world leaders to make commitments around the issues associated with extreme poverty: gender equality, food security, education, the environment, global health, citizenship, and sanitation. This dynamic program will take Fellows through a multi-phase curriculum, specifically designed to equip them with the skills and tools they need to thrive – not just during their time with Global Citizen but also in any future professional environment.

  • Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Applications due in September

Hope Center Uganda

Hope Center Uganda offers internships and volunteering positions year-round.

Humanity In Action Fellowships

Intensive and demanding, the Humanity in Action Fellowship brings together international groups of university students and recent graduates to explore national histories of discrimination and resistance, as well as examples of issues affecting different minority groups today. Our one-year Fellowship program welcomes college and university students and recent graduates from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Poland, the Netherlands, the United States, and Ukraine. Fellows participate in intensive four-week educational programs located in cities across Europe and the United States, with approximately 20 local and international students in each program. Each program provides a site-specific curriculum for understanding the historical and cultural context in which challenges to pluralism and liberal democracy occur.

  • Unpaid but Humanity in Action provides a modest stipend for meals during the fellowship program.
  • Eligibility

The James and Florence Peacock Summer REACH Fellowship

The REACH fellowship seeks to provide a robust, funded professionalization opportunity for Carolina doctoral students who are interested in diversifying their graduate portfolio by exploring alternative academic (alt-ac) careers. The REACH Fellowship places one fellow during the summer and one during the academic year in a non-teaching and non-research internship.

REACH fellows will work as part of the Office of the Vice Provost for Global Affairs, on projects aligned with Carolina Next’s Globalize Strategic Initiative. A primary aim of the Globalize Initiative is to preserve and, where possible, strengthen Carolina’s ability to work with partners around the world, to educate our students and to address the most pressing challenges of our time.

  • $5,000 stipend provided
  • Freshman or sophomore
  • Applications due in March

Mingma Norbu Sherpa Fellowship

The annual Mingma Norbu Sherpa Community Engagement Fellowship provides $2,500 to graduate and professional students to support field study and engaged research in environmental areas at field sites. Recipients of the Mingma Norbu Sherpa Community Engagement Fellowship will be part of the larger Community Engagement Fellowship cohort and participate in cohort sessions.

One Heart Source

One Heart Source is a leader in bringing innovative experiential learning opportunities to university students and working professionals. Founded in 2008, we work in partnership with communities around the world to collaboratively design education and health initiatives that provide opportunities for youth and communities to thrive.

  • Cost varies by program and length
  • Summer

Princeton in Asia

Princeton in Asia (PiA) is an independent, non-profit organization affiliated with and located on campus at Princeton University. It is PiA’s vision that through extended exposure to Asian workplaces and cultures, Fellows will develop a life-long appreciation for and engagement in this part of the world, as well as a commitment to contributing to the communities of which they find themselves a part after PiA. We like to think of PiA as “a change in perspective, a job that matters, a community for life.”

  • Stipend provided
  • 1- and 2-year immersive programs
  • Eligibility

Phillips Ambassadors

The Phillips Ambassadors scholarship offers undergraduates at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University a unique opportunity to study abroad in Asia. The Phillips Ambassadors Program is open to UNC Chapel Hill and select Duke University undergraduate students across all majors who are applying for a university-approved study abroad academic program in Asia (excluding Central Asia).

UNC Medical Horizons Fellowship

The UNC Medical Horizons Fellowship provides funding for an undergraduate student to join 1st and 4th year medical students on a summer women’s health project in Honduras in collaboration with the UNC School of Medicine and the Honduran Health Alliance (HHA).

VE Global Volunteering

VE is a non-profit organization providing free volunteer abroad opportunities in Santiago, Chile. VE Global fosters the development of children at social risk in Santiago de Chile by recruiting and training volunteers to do volunteer work in the areas of literacy, arts, health and recreation, and English.

  • 4 month commitment
  • Intermediate Spanish

VE Global Internships

The internship will provide the candidate with the opportunity to get a comprehensive view of an international nonprofit organization that focuses on providing social services to children and youth at social risk through its volunteer program. You will gain unique insight into the operations of a dynamic organization that values empowerment, community, positivity, integrity and responsibility.

  • 3 month commitment
  • Located in Santiago, Chile