Internship Opportunities at Danish Embassies in Latin America – Fall 2025

Are you in worldwide enterprise and relations? Do you aspire to help Danish enterprise alternatives overseas whereas strengthening strategic, financial, and political relationships between Denmark and Latin America? If you might be an formidable and high-performing staff participant searching for a difficult and rewarding expertise, this chance could also be for you.

The Danish embassies in Santiago, Bogotá, and Mexico City are searching for interns to affix each their political and business groups. This internship presents a singular likelihood to complement your tutorial research with sensible expertise, gaining key expertise and in-depth information of Latin American enterprise and political affairs.

Internship in the Trade Council

The Trade Council at the embassies helps a various vary of Danish companies working in Latin America. Interns actively contribute to each day business work and may additionally help in political and administrative duties as wanted. Consular and cultural assignments may additionally come up.

Typical Tasks:

• Drafting market and sector perception stories
• Supporting enterprise alternatives between native and Danish firms, enterprise delegations, and ministerial visits
• Participating in the embassies’ political work
• Developing and sustaining embassy web sites
• Attending conferences and seminars
• Contributing to communication efforts, together with drafting articles for Danish and native media

The business internship integrates political parts, masking areas comparable to EU commerce insurance policies, together with the Global Gateway initiative. In Mexico and Colombia, this position additionally entails work in strategic sector cooperation.

Application Codes:

• TC-1: Trade Council internship at the Embassy in Santiago, Chile
• TC-2: Trade Council internship at the Embassy in Mexico City, Mexico
• TC-3: Trade Council internship at the Embassy in Bogotá, Colombia

Internship in the Political Department (Bogotá Only)

The Political Department in Bogotá collaborates intently with the Colombian authorities on key political points, together with:

1. Human rights and social change
2. The peace course of and implementation of the peace settlement
3. Deforestation
4. Gender equality and girls’s rights

The division additionally helps Denmark’s engagement in Bolivia, Panama, Costa Rica, and Venezuela.

Typical Tasks:

• Assisting with go to preparations and execution
• Contributing to embassy stories and analyses
• Participating in conferences, seminars, and occasions
• Responding to inquiries from Danish and Colombian residents, companies, and establishments
• Managing the embassy’s web site and social media platforms

Application Code:

• POL-1: Political internship at the Embassy in Bogotá, Colombia

Eligibility

To be eligible, candidates should:

• Be enrolled in the next schooling establishment at the Bachelor’s or Master’s degree for the whole period of the internship.
• If a international nationwide, have lived in Denmark for at least three years at the time of application, maintain everlasting residence in Denmark, and be enrolled in a Danish greater schooling establishment throughout the internship.
• Be eligible for safety clearance by Danish authorities and preserve clearance all through the internship.
• Have not beforehand accomplished an internship with the Danish Foreign Service.
• Demonstrate flexibility, initiative, and teamwork whereas contributing to ongoing initiatives.
• Possess sturdy communication expertise in Spanish and English, each written and spoken.
• Be aware of Microsoft Office and basic IT proficiency.
• Ensure the internship contributes to their schooling, beneath the supervision of an educational employees member.
• Verify any tutorial necessities with their academic establishments earlier than making use of.

Work Schedule and Holidays

Interns work a median of 37 hours per week, together with lunch breaks. They accrue 2.08 vacation days per 30 days, totaling 12.5 days for a six-month internship. If writing an educational project as part of the internship, interns might obtain further writing-free days, decided based mostly on tutorial necessities (as much as a most of 10 days).

Housing and Insurance

Interns are accountable for securing their very own lodging and masking related prices. Additionally, they have to receive insurance coverage at their very own expense, masking repatriation in case of sickness or demise and private legal responsibility exterior working hours.

Financial Support

The internship is unpaid. However, interns obtain a month-to-month stipend to cowl documented lodging, transportation, insurance coverage, and different internship-related bills. Many interns may additionally qualify for Danish pupil help (SU) however ought to confirm eligibility with the Danish Agency for Higher Education.

How to Apply

Applications should be submitted electronically through the official application kind by March 10, 2025.

Applicants should point out their most popular areas utilizing the related application codes listed above. To apply for internships at different Danish embassies, candidates ought to go to the respective embassy web sites for separate application hyperlinks.

Required application supplies:

• CV
• Motivation letter (max one web page, detailing curiosity, objectives, and related expertise)
• Academic transcripts
• Optional: Additional supporting paperwork (e.g., statements from employers or academic establishments)

Interview Process:

Interviews can be carried out between March 17 – 28, 2025.

More Information

For inquiries relating to internships in Latin America, please contact:

• Santiago: Head of Trade, Dagmar Hernández Thomsen – dagtho@um.dk
• Bogotá: First Secretary, Nana Hein Winther – nanlau@um.dk
• Mexico City: Head of Trade, Sara Takatomi – sartak@um.dk

To be taught extra, please go to here.

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