NGO
- Industry: NGO
- Size of the company: Small (1-49 employees)
- Global locations: Russia
- Internship location: Saint-Petersburg
- Language of internship: English, Russian
- Key tasks and responsibilities:
- Coordination of the translating team for the English version of the website,
- Looking up musicians for the next Queer Fest,
- Looking up photographs projects for the next Queer fest,
- Attending Side by Side festival,
- Writing guides for Asylum procedure in several countries, especially french speaking countries.
Zoé Zorzetto
Belgium
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- Industry: NGO
- Size of the company: Medium (50-249 Employees)
- Global locations: Russia
- Internship location: Saint-Petersburg
- Language of internship: English, Russian
- Key tasks and responsibilities:
- promoting donation of blood and its components development (the “Donors Fund” project);,
- national bone marrow donors register development;,
- resource centre for nonprofit organizations;,
- educational events for nonprofit organizations representatives and volunteers;,
- educational adaptation and reintegration of individuals in custody with the aim of repeat offence prevention organizing and conducting urban donor events as an event manager and volunteer, for example, Urban Youth Donor Day,
- organizing donor activities in the districts scale or large city events, such as Epic con,,
- organizing creative workshops for patients of children's departments of city hospitals,,
- organization of work and events of social co-working called "Headquarters", Resource Center for Volunteers and NGOs,,
- interaction with residents (volunteer organizations, NGOs and civil society activists) of the social co-working “Headquarters” Resource Center for Volunteers and NGOs,,
- organizing and conducting urban cultural and sports events, for example, the Kirovsky Open Marathon..
Tatiana Delhez
Belgium
When I first contacted Profintern, I had a really good feeling about them and I really thought they understood what I wanted. Indeed the internship they found me was what I asked for and I was happy about it. When I arrived in Russia, I had some problems with my flight but Profintern made sure that I was arriving in good conditions and helped me going through it. They welcomed me and made sure I c...
- Industry: NGO
- Size of the company: Medium (50-249 Employees)
- Global locations: Russia
- Internship location: Saint-Petersburg
- Language of internship: English, Russian
- Key tasks and responsibilities:
- Assistance with the processing of responses and summarizing the results of Google polls.,
- Assistance in the organization of project activities - registration, preparation of equipment, maintenance of presentations,,
- Assistance in the compilation of the Catalog of social and entrepreneurial projects..
Sidsel Marie Henriksen
Denmark
I spent 2,5 months in St. Petersburg from February to April, taking Russian lessons in the morning and working part-time at a NGO-developing centre in the afternoon. Being almost a complete beginner with the language I highly benefitted from the Russian language course – also due to my very patient and skilled teacher at the school. Two weeks into my stay I began my internship in what you might ...
- Industry: Ecology
- Size of the company: Small (1-50 Employees)
- Global locations: Russia
- Internship location: St. Petersburg
- Language of internship: Russian
- Key tasks and responsibilities:
- Enlightenment project - organization of classes with schoolchildren on the ecological topics,
- Preparation and holding of master classes ,
- Preparation for participation in VK-Fest (huge festival organized by Russian social network Vkontakte),
- Assistance in organizing an international environmental competition for Students and students,
- Preparation of publications for the website,
- Assistance in preparing a manual for schoolchildren about the ecological way of life,
- Participation in current work.
Lara Marelli
Italy
Let me first say that I had never been in Russia before and, for this reason, I did not know really what I would have found here. It was such a good discovery!
ProfIntern could find the perfect internship for my needs and now I would like to tell you about my personal experience.
First of all they are reliable from beginning to end; my handler Maria Lobanova has always promptly replied to my ma...
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