Internships/ Trainee positions

An internship can give you as a student or recently graduated the opportunity to expand your skills and expertise to work in a global context. You will expand your global network and learn more how it is to work in an international environment.

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Internship abroad

All SLU students have the opportunity to do an internship, either within or outside of your study programme. Through the Erasmus+ program, you can receive a grant to do an internship at a company, organization, or a university in any other EU country.

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Career portal

You can find degree projects, jobs, internships and scholarships on SLU's career portal. Some of the ads are in Swedish.

Swedish Development Forum (FUF)

A FUF internship will give you valuable insight in how development organisations work as well as experience and contacts for the future. Many organisations also need extra resources which can be provided by these interns. Approximately 60 internships in Swedish organisations, authorities and institutions are provided every semester to students from universities all around Sweden.

International fieldwork scholarships

Are you an SLU student? Do you want to do field work in a low- or middle-income country for your thesis? The purpose is to spark greater interest in and provide meaningful experiences of science for sustainable global development. Apply for our stipend for international thesis work. Deadline is 30 October.

Internship at the Government office or Swedish embassies

The Government Office receives many interns in various parts of the business. Respective ministries, the Cabinet Committee and the Administration Department of the Government Offices decide from semester to semester whether they have the opportunity to receive one or more interns.
Internships at the Swedish Government

FAO internship programme

The Internship Programme at FAO is a learning opportunity aimed at attracting talented young people who are strongly motivated to share their new perspectives, innovative ideas and latest research experience.
FAO internship programme

Internship at World Bank Group

The Bank Internship Program (BIP) offers students an opportunity to be exposed to the mission and work of the World Bank. The internship allows individuals to bring new perspectives, innovative ideas and research experience into the Bank's work, while improving skills in a diverse environment.
The Bank Internship Programme

The Young Professionals Program

The World Bank Group's Young Professionals Program engages top global talent with distictive technical skills and diverse backgrounds to work across the World Bank, MIGA, and IFC towards a world free of poverty on a livable planet.
The Young Professionals Program