McGill Internship Offices Network

The Internship Offices Network (ION) is the coordinating body for the teaching, learning and administrative units of the McGill faculties that organize and provide internship opportunities. ION aims to promote student internships by:

• Serving as a portal to the appropriate internship office on campus;
• Providing tools and resources to help students find an internship; and
• Organizing and publicizing events that promote internships in general and particular opportunities.

Current Internship Postings

• Delegation of Canada to the OSCE Internship Program [.pdf]
• IHSP McBurney Program [.pdf]
• IHSP Internship Program [.pdf]
• CBC Music Internship Opportunity [.pdf] (Deadline extended to October 11, 2013)
• Internship Opportunity with the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) delegation to the United Nations [.pdf]

PFF Community Leadership Fellowships

Community-based change. Student-led innovation.

The PFF Community Leadership Fellowships offer extraordinary opportunities to young McGill students with innovative ideas, helping them to bring sustainable and positive social change to the communities in which they work.

Applications now being accepted for 2014. For more information on how to apply click here.

Learn more about Fellows' projects on Youtube.

The 2013 recipients of the PFF Community Leadership Fellowships

Erik Delaquis (MA '13) and Lauren Pochereva (BA '09, DipSci '12)

The PFF Community Leadership Fellowships offer extraordinary opportunities to McGill students with innovative ideas, helping them to bring sustainable and positive social change to the communities in which they work.

Erik's project, Community-Driven Plant Material Improvement for Sustainable Livelihoods in West Africa, is an agricultural development project that seeks to improve food security in rural villages in Senegal and The Gambia by establishing improved plant materials centers with two locally-based NGOs. Lauren's project, Ça pousse!, is an educational garden service and the newest program for Action Communiterre. It is an innovative social economy service that combines edible landscaping and educational programming for schools and other social institutions in NDG and surrounding Montreal neighborhoods.

The Pascale International Fellows Program at the Clinton Foundation

Established in 2005 by President Bill Clinton, the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) convenes global leaders to devise and implement innovative solutions to some of the world's most pressing challenges.

Each year, one Pascale International Fellow will be chosen from McGill University and one from Yale College. The Pascale International Fellow will work full-time with the CGI on its outreach efforts, partnership opportunities, special projects, extensive research support, and project management from May 22 to the end of September.

For more information about the program, click here.

2013 Fellow: Anna Lermer, BEng Mechanical Engineering

Anna Lermer will graduate with a major in Mechnical Engineering and a minor in Environmental Engineering. Over the course of her undergraduate degree she has developed an interest in environmental policy, sustainability, and international development.

For more information on Anna and other past fellows, click here.

AUCC Students for Development, 2013 Recipients

The Students for Development (SFD) Program is financed by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and managed by the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC).  The AUCC-SFD Program aims to increase collaboration between Canadian universities and developing country partners to build capacity in three CIDA priority areas: 1) Increasing food security; 2) Securing the future of children and youth; and 3) Stimulating sustainable economic growth.  The program grants $6,500 (for a three-month internship) to up to five McGill students who gain academic credit through internships in developing countries. 

To learn more about the 2013 AUCC recipients click here.

Notes from Kianyaga

2012 AUCC award recipients Liam Kirwin and Kimberley Smith spent three months last summer living in Kianyaga, Kenya, and interning at Green Power, an NGO geared toward developing energy models for sustainable power in rural households.

Read more about their experience working on this project, and the gender relations that they encountered in rural Kenya.

Internship Viewbook: A World of Experience

Internships are an increasingly important way to complement one's degree with real-world experience. Students from all of McGill's faculties, covering an impressive array of fields, are undertaking internships that are allowing them to gain practical experience, to deepen their studies, and to open doors for future opportunities.

A World of Experience [.pdf], published by the Internship Offices Network, profiles McGill student-interns and the Faculty Internship Programs that helped them along the way.