Internship Overview

This internship program will help you to understand all the important reasons to protect marine life. As an intern, you will be guided and supervised on your daily and weekly activities. Interns are allowed to express and perform their best contributions to the program. This is a profound opportunity for interns to help the local team to continue to pursue maintaining their underwater animals.

The Marine Conservation Internship is located in a village in a traditional and non-touristic area in Bali. In this village, people care for their environment and protecting their homeland from outsiders. Together, you will collaborate with the local community on this program- locals and interns will learn from each other and sharing their best experiences to make the best out of this marine conservation. 

Interns shall be educated on the importance of corals to ecosystems, practices, and assignments at the beginning of the internship. An expert supervisor in Marine Conservation will guide you along with way during the internship. This internship involves practical marine conservation projects in various parts of the island along with a local team who strive to protect the marine life in the ocean around Bali.

Your tasks during the program may include building fish tanks to grow corals as well as, observing and monitoring the coral growth and occasionally, rare elasmobranch fish behaviour for data input.

Features

• Guaranteed internship placement with an assigned project and a professional work environment
• Guaranteed English language speaking person in the working environment plus a local language when applicable
• Learning filled and meaningful internship/work assignments that are relevant to the intern’s field of study
• A predefined professional role
• Pre-internship personal learning goal and competency assessment
• Guidance, Supervision and on the job training
• Guaranteed 25+ working hours per week (4 or 5 days a week, depending on the requirements of the intern’s educational institution)
• Frequent (bi-weekly/monthly) feedback and progress sessions with the hosting company/organization
• A proper (physical) workplace for the intern
• Welcome and pick-up at the airport
• Accommodation close to workplace, comfortable environment.
• A mandatory introduction week consisting of an intro into the local culture and customs as well as an introduction into the internship placement (academic)
• Meals provided (Depends on the location of the placement)
• 24-hour local support.
• 20 years of organizational experience worldwide