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Internship location: Energy Cities’ office in Besançon (France) if COVID-19 pandemic allows
Supervisors: Kinga Kovacs, Thibaut Maraquin
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 5 | Resource-wise & socially just local economies.
This hub will inspire cities with alternatives and new narratives for rethinking local social and economic models based on local resources while ensuring solidarity and equity in society.
Missions and activities:
· Support the exploratory work to further define the scope of Hub5 in collaboration with Energy Cities’ members (organizing exploratory webinars and interviews, synthesis and follow up)
· Do research on local regenerative economy, economy of the commons (sharing economy), functional economy, circular economy, sufficiency, doughnut economy, degrowth – carbon gentrification, frugal city, urban metabolism, (s)low tech, resource-efficient cities.
· Carry out specific interviews with Energy Cities’ member cities to understand their achievements and needs in the field of: (1) Sufficiency and just transition (2) Regenerative local economies, economy of functionality and (3) circular economy/urban planning (recycling of vacant spaces, temporary use)
· Prepare case studies on the above-mentioned topics
· Contribute to mapping the European ecosystem of key actors, organizations and initiatives within these fields
· Support with digesting the new expected EU policies, depending on when these will be published (new legislation for sustainable products building on the existing Ecodesign Directive, the European Textiles Strategy, revision of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive, legal framework for green claims) etc.
· Support project managers in preparing a pipeline of projects in the above-mentioned fields
· Support with setting up a learning programme for the cities on the above-mentioned topics
· Support global coordination and communication activities within HUB5: 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
