Responsibility area - Operational partnerships and EU funding coordination
Approximately 60% of time
Maintain and further develop the live partner database, including partner profiles, thematic fit, consortium experience, country presence, reputational considerations, risks, priority leads by theme, and next-step actions.
Support pre-call partner cultivation by identifying high-fit lead partners and technical allies for priority themes and calls.
Prepare short partner-intelligence notes covering WRI's possible role, partnership rationale, risks, and suggested next steps.
Maintain the EU funding pipeline tracker and help ensure that follow-up actions, partner conversations, and priority opportunities are recorded in a usable way.
Contribute to bi-monthly forward looks, internal alerts, and opportunity briefs covering Horizon Europe and diversified EU instruments.
Support opportunity scanning, call-fit analysis, and early internal alerts so that teams can engage before consortia are fully formed.
Support the development of a diversified EU funding pipeline beyond Horizon, including where relevant LIFE, NDICI/Global Europe, Interreg, Innovation Fund, and EU service contracts or tenders.
Responsibility area - EU engagement, policy intelligence and institutional briefing
Approximately 20% of time
Support EU engagement by preparing short policy briefs, institutional mapping notes, meeting briefings, and follow-up inputs for priority EU institutions and policy processes.
Monitor selected EU policy and funding developments relevant to WRI Europe's strategic priorities and translate them into concise internal updates.
Help prepare background material for institutional outreach, partner meetings, EU-facing conversations, and strategic engagement opportunities.
Support the connection between EU funding opportunities and wider institutional engagement priorities, so that funding intelligence and policy positioning reinforce one another.
Responsibility area - Knowledge management, proposal support and internal learning
Approximately 15% of time
Help maintain the EU Desk knowledge hub and organise guidance material, templates, examples, FAQs, how-to notes, debrief summaries, and reusable proposal-support resources.
Contribute background research and drafting support for submission advice notes, proposal-review inpu
Additional Information
About the Program:
WRI Europe collaborates with the institutions of the European Union, the European Investment Bank, and a broad range of public, civil-society, research, and delivery partners to support Europe's leadership on climate, environment, and sustainable development.
This internship offers a unique opportunity to gain experience within an international NGO that works to advance the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement. The intern will gain practical insight into how EU institutions, funding instruments, policy intelligence, and partnerships can be mobilised to support ambitious climate and development outcomes.
https://www.wri.org/europe
Internship Highlight:
Starting in September 2026, this internship will continue and deepen work already underway in WRI Europe's EU Desk. The intern will support a defined project focused on consolidating and operationalising WRI Europe's EU partnership and funding support system for the 2026-2027 cycle.
The role is especially well suited to someone who enjoys combining research, relationship management, policy and institutional monitoring, structured process support, and knowledge management. The intern will play a cross-cutting role in connecting operational partnerships, funding intelligence, internal coordination, EU engagement, and learning into one coherent and usable support system for the EU Desk and the thematic teams it supports.
Wri · The Hague, Netherlands