Interships

Internship opportunities at CESS

CESS offers research internships varying between 2 and 4 months. Depending on their capabilities, interns have the opportunity to deal with tasks including qualitative and quantitative data collection and the formulation of research papers on various subjects. In the past, CESS research has included studies of returned migrants, measuring the migration trends of the Albanian population, brain drain brain gain, the impact of remittances in Albanian development, trafficking of human beings, as well as other migration related issues.

Other tasks interns will have to help with will include editing, translation, and communication with our partners. The interns have also the opportunity to use our research and literature for their own research purposes. Furthermore, depending on their field of interest, they will have the chance to meet important stakeholders from our partner institutions, universities, and international organizations within Albania.

Applying for internships

Interested applicants should contact the Center for Economic and Social Studies (CESS) by e-mail at the following addresses:
 cess@albnet.net
 gedeshi@albnet.net



Previous internships
Starting from August 2007, CESS has had three international interns conducting their internship in Albania. Below we provide a short profile of each of them:
   

• Luciano Canova
  E-mail: luciano.canova@unicatt.it
  
  Mr. Canova is currently completing his doctorate in economics at the Catholic University of Milan. He conducted a one-month internship at CESS during August and September 2007, where he conducted research for his PhD thesis on “Vulnerability in Albania” based on data from the Albanian Living Standards Measurement Study survey developed by the Albanian Institute of Statistics (INSTAT) and the World Bank. He also contributed to econometric analyses on two research reports on the country profile of Albanian Potential and Returned Migrants, which was part of a study project developed by CESS and the European Training foundation (ETF).
   
• Natalia Dylawerska
  E-mail: natalka.gdynia@hotmail.com
   
  Ms. Dylawerska is a final-year student at the Academy of International Economic and Political Relations in Gdynia, Poland. She interned at CESS for five weeks from end-August 2007, where she researched on her final thesis on “International Migrations and their Consequences for the European Union.” During the course of the research, she met representatives from government institutions and UN organizations resident in Albania.
   
• Emily Pearce
  E-mail: pearce.em@gmail.com
  Ms. Pearce has just completed her Masters degree through the Transatlantic Masters program with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. She interned with CESS for six weeks since October.

• Silvia Tiengo

Email: ihoh@libero.it

Silvia has took her BSc in Sociological Science at University of Padua, Italy in March 2007. Now she's completing her MA in Intercultural and Social Citizenship at Ca' Foscari University of Venice with a thesis about Albanian return migration. She did an internship at CESS from March 2008 to May 2008 to research about Albanian emigration to Italy and return migration in Albania.

• Fleur Dikken

Email: fleurd3@hotmail.com

Fleur finished her Master for Migration and Ethnic Studies at the International School for Humanities and Social Sciences in Amsterdam. She worked for CESS from September until November 2008 as a post-graduate intern. Apart from drafting different project proposals on child migration and Rroma migration, Fleur assisted in organizing an international conference on "Migration and Development" which took place in Durres on 25-28 September 2008.
 

Erudita Hoti

Email: erudita.hoti.682@student.lu.se

Erudita completed her secondary education in "United World College of the Adriatic" from where she also got an International Baccalaureate degree. Actually she is an economics student of Lund university Sweden,in completion of a degree in International economics and development.  She is currently on a SIDA financed program doing field studies for my bachelor thesis  on  the role of remittances on poverty in Albania. During February-March 2009 she has been working closelly with CESS to research about migration and remittances in the Albanian context.

 

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