OCREECAS Internships

An important mission of OCREECAS is to support summer and postgraduate service internships abroad through grants.

A map of Russia and surrounding countries — OCREECAS Internship Locations

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OCREECAS awards three grants annually (up to $5,000 each), to send students overseas to internships in the OCREECAS region. OCREECAS has a selection of affiliate internships, but students are also strongly encouraged to develop their own internship opportunities with recognized institutions. Students are required to have at least one affiliate institution in the host country, and most internships are 1-3 months in length. OCREECAS Internships are open to currently enrolled students and graduates within the past two years, with priority given to REEES students and majors who have not previously received OCREECAS Internship Awards. The application instructions and form are linked below.

Maia Solovieva, Senior Lecturer in Russian and OCREECAS Internship Director, recommends that all students applying for an internship have prior experience in that country, either through study abroad or some other intimate means. The internships are meant to give students an opportunity to experience professional or pre-professional life in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

Download the instructions and application form

Recent OCREECAS Internships include:

TYPA Printing and Paper Art Centre, Tartu, Estonia
Baltic Center, Riga, Latvia
Riga Ghetto and Latvian Holocaust Museum, Riga, Latvia
Pheasant's Tears Winery, Sighnaghi, Georgia
Art Quarter Budapest, Hungary
BPZines, Budapest, Hungary
Threadwritten, Hungary
Ilkhom Theatre, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

Previous OCREECAS Internships required Russian language knowledge and partnerships included the institutions listed below. Internships in Russia are not currently supported.