Support and development of CIVIS Open Lab transnational projects
Knowledge : - B2/ C1 level required in English and French (written and oral) - Functioning of European projects and higher education institutions - Local and regional ecosystems Operational skills : - Developing and managing a project, including international projects - Coordinating and leading online and face-to-face meetings and workshops - Supporting and advising partners - Monitoring and mobilising funding Behavioural skills : - Sense of initiative - autonomy - Ability to adapt - Ability to listen - Creativity / Sense of innovation
The trainee will be expected to have cross-disciplinary skills in research, writing, leadership
and organisational skills, as well as a sense of initiative and autonomy.
autonomy.
Applications are open to any student from Aix-Marseille University or another French higher
French higher education establishment. A course in international project management, but also in social and
social and political sciences, and cultural mediation would be appreciated, as would experience in the voluntary sector.
experience in the voluntary sector.
We, Aix-Marseille Université (Aix-en-Provence and Marseille, France), National Kapodistrian University of Athens (Athens, Greece), Université Libre de Bruxelles (Brussels, Belgium), Universitatea din București (Bucharest, Romania), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Madrid, Spain), Sapienza Università di Roma (Rome, Italy), Stockholms Universitet (Stockholm, Sweden), and Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (Germany) are joining forces to build a European University alliance under the name “CIVIS”. CIVIS stands for a transnational collaboration of civic universities. Based on the solid and innovative education and scientific activity in each institution, we shall unite efforts and experiences to develop an alliance with strong links to our local social and geographical environments and an orientation toward global challenges. We are fully committed to address these from a European perspective by strengthening our shared and respective civic identities, integrating experiences and nurturing new initiatives. This alliance will bring together some 384.000 students and 55.000 staff members, fostering multilingualism and multiculturalism.
The student selected for the placement will have a dual role: On the one hand, to support the CIVIS Africa and Mediterranean Partnership Officer in her task of consolidation of the partnership, based on the Alliance's educational, research and OpenLabs projects. the Alliance's educational, research and OpenLabs projects, in particular by mapping them, identifying calls for projects and putting together responses, and the prefiguration of a joint conference with African universities. 3 In addition, the AMU OpenLab coordinator will be supported in 2 tasks: 1) development, filing and steering of OpenLab projects in the region and at the level of the alliance; 2) participation in the activities of the Alliance's Civic Engagement and Service-Learning expert groups.