I am a political science and international
relations student at the Vilnius University in Lithuania and now an intern at
the Research Institute for Managing Sustainability in Vienna, Austria. Me and
my fellow colleague and friend Vaida, in the beginning of this spring
accidentally found out about the Partners4Value internship opportunities and
decided to take a leap of fate and try to apply. We looked trough the internship
notices that were available, we met with the Lithuanian UNDP office staff that
helped us a lot and finally our choice was Vienna. The internship offer matched
our study programme requirements, our interests in politics, global problems,
diplomacy and etc., so we thought that this chance will go best in line with our
career prospects.
The
internship and working experience
Research Institute for Managing Sustainability
(RIMAS) views a sustainable development as an important challenge for our time,
so here this topic is addressed from a
variety of angles including Corporate Sustainability, Corporate Social
Responsibility, Good Governance, innovation research, and sustainable
consumption. I got a chance to join the team of researches, help them in
preparing projects, conferences, analyzing United Nations Development Goals,
doing literature research and bunch of other interesting tasks, that I hope
will be useful in the future. I believe that this experience will help me
improve my personal communication skills, academic knowledge. I hope that I
have contributed the think-tank office‘s broader politics and work. This
internship has thought me
confidence to take initiative and successfully organize work related tasks.
Living in Vienna
It's always hard to choose a favourite travel and
living destinations, but Vienna must be close to the top of mylist as it offers
so much to do and see. The noble architecture of the city can be a sweep at
first glance, but if you take a better look at Vienna, you’ll see that there
are many more things that will make you stick with it. The autumn is perfect in
here: the weather is warm and pleasant, you can walk around and enjoy every
little park, tourist spot or small beautifull street in the city. In my free
time I had a chance to enjoing travelling around, getting to know the culture, the history, the people and the elegance of the city in
the night – everything is worth seeing and especially when living here for a
longer period of time! Vienna is a beautiful, orderly, and city with equal doses of
old world charm and metropolitan sophistication.
I had a time of my life here!
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