Nordic Africa Institute Internship 2025 – YOA

Deadline: October 26, 2025

Applications are open for the Nordic Africa Institute Internship 2025. Research interns at NAI acquire expertise in an interdisciplinary setting, with alternatives to develop topic information and learn to work inside a analysis establishment.

The analysis space on Development Economics at NAI investigates how financial buildings, insurance policies, and exterior dynamics affect inclusive development, poverty discount, and structural transformation in African international locations. It explores the hyperlinks between financial efficiency, social welfare, and governance, in addition to the evolving function of Africa within the world economic system.

Key areas of inquiry embody:

• Inclusive and sustainable financial development and employment creation
• Income distribution, inequality, and poverty discount methods
• Trade, funding, and industrial growth
• Digitalization and financial transformation, together with the function of digital applied sciences in productiveness, market integration, and innovation
• Climate change and its financial implications
• Food safety, agricultural methods, and rural livelihoods – together with how agricultural insurance policies, land use, and innovation form financial resilience and growth outcomes
• 20 weeks of internship
• Ongoing initiatives study, for instance, the impacts of world financial shocks on African economies, the function of digital applied sciences in inclusive development, and the transformation of meals methods within the face of local weather change and inhabitants development.

Responsibilities

As a Development Economics Intern, you’ll work intently with NAI researchers and contribute to ongoing initiatives inside this analysis space. Your duties could embody:

• Conducting literature evaluations and background analysis on ongoing analysis initiatives
• Supporting knowledge assortment, cleansing, and fundamental evaluation (quantitative or qualitative)
• Drafting analysis notes, coverage briefs, and analysis summaries
• Contributing to mission administration, together with communications and documentation
• Assisting with the dissemination of analysis findings to coverage audiences and the general public
• Performing different duties as assigned

Benefits

• Hands-on expertise in a number one analysis institute centered on African growth
• Mentorship from senior researchers and publicity to chopping-edge coverage debates
• Opportunities to publish and current your work
• Networking with lecturers, policymakers, and practitioners from Africa and the Nordic international locations

This internship gives a singular OPPORTUNITY to achieve sensible expertise in utilized growth analysis and contribute to coverage-related information manufacturing in a world analysis setting.

Eligibility

They are looking for motivated candidates with a robust educational background and a ardour for growth points. The best candidate can have:

• Candidates should be enrolled in, or have not too long ago accomplished, a Master’s programme in economics, growth research, political economic system, environmental sciences, or different associated fields.
• Candidates should reside in Sweden and be based mostly close to Uppsala, because the internship requires on-website presence and the brief length doesn’t enable for visa sponsorship.
• Familiarity with growth economics ideas and debates, notably within the African context
• Strong quantitative and analytical expertise, and talent to make use of statistical packages and programming languages (e.g., STATA, SPSS, or R) is a bonus.
• Strong educational writing expertise and superb stage of oral and written fluency in English.
• Knowledge in Swedish is meritorious.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a world setting.

Application

Interested candidates who meet the required {qualifications} are invited to submit their functions by our recruitment system no later than 26 October2025. Only shortlisted candidates shall be contacted.

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For extra info, go to NAI Internship.