Internship location: Energy Cities’ office in Besançon (France) if COVID-19 pandemic allows
Supervisors: Giustino Piccolo, Marta Arosio
Internship timing: full time, AS SOON AS POSSIBLE
Duration: 6 months
Deadline to apply: 15 June
Notifications of selected candidates: 21st June
Interviews with shortlisted candidates are foreseen on 22-23 June.
Position:
We are hiring a candidate with strong motivation to assist us in the, launching, shaping and implementing of our community spaces to activate, empower and inspire local leaders towards a climate-neutral Europe.
Energy Cities’ members can join and benefit free-of-charge from five action-oriented HUBs, aligned with our intervention systems and impact targets.
The candidate will specifically assist with the development and set-up of HUB 4 | Future-proof food systems & land policies
This hub will support and inspire cities to develop policies and actions to accelerate food systems transitions.
Missions and activities:
· Support the exploratory work to further define the scope of Hub4 in collaboration with Energy Cities’ members (organizing exploratory webinars and interviews, synthesis and follow up)
· Contribute to mapping the European ecosystem of key actors within these fields
· Support project managers in preparing a pipeline of projects in the field
· Do research on sustainable food systems, urban food governance, urban food production, urban-rural links, connections between the New European Bauhaus and food system transitions
· Carry out specific interviews with Energy Cities’ member cities to understand their achievements and needs in the field
· Prepare case studies on the above-mentioned topics
· Support with digesting EU policies in the field and contribute to their communication to Energy Cities member
· Support with setting up a learning programme for the cities on the above-mentioned topics
· Support global coordination and communication activities within HUB4: contribute to newsletters preparation, info sharing on our community platform, organization of workshops and webinars, storytelling, preparing main takeaways
· Support the overall coordination across the 5 hubs, specifically in relation to the tasks of: info-sharing and external communication.
· Support the overall hubs’ community platform help desk