Belval Campus, Maison du Savoir
2, place de l’Université
L-4365 Esch-sur-Alzette

Geraldine Knudson, Head of Communications and Marketing
geraldine.knudson@uni.lu

IMPORTANT: Please contact descom@uni.lu first if you want to apply or if you have any questions regarding the internships!

The University of Luxembourg (Uni.lu) was founded in 2003. With over 1,000 doctoral candidates among 7,500 students as well as 300 professors, Uni.lu is a research university focused on tomorrow’s major societal challenges. Its strategic priorities are digital transformation, medicine and health, and sustainable and societal development. The University distinguishes itself with its international and multilingual character, an interdisciplinary approach, an attractive intellectual property strategy and its openness to partnerships.

Uni.lu offers a personalised learning environment for all students, who benefit from state-of-the-art facilities across three faculties and four interdisciplinary research centres.

Times Higher Education ranks Uni.lu 20th in the Young University Ranking 2024 and among the top 250 universities in the world.

The Communications Department of the University of Luxembourg is in charge of:

• press relations
• media counselling for researchers
• marketing and corporate design
• web communication (www.uni.lu, University Newsletter)
• social media (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube)
• event management
• internal communication

First half day: Introduction to the functioning of the Communications Department of the University of Luxembourg.

Afterwards: Individual project for the intern to work on for 2 weeks. For instance, writing a journalistic long-form text about a comprehensive topic (e.g. citizen science projects at UL, science based on computer modelling, education in a multilingual context, space research in Luxembourg,…) and/or preparing some multimedia elements to accompany them. The results will be published on the website of the University of Luxembourg. The Communications Department will support the interns with these projects and give them feedback on their work. Based on individual preferences and capacity interns may also work on a different project (e.g. events, press conferences, social media projects etc.) or take over daily tasks (e.g. answering press inquiries, preparing press reviews, assisting in writing articles for the website etc.) to gain a realistic picture of public relations.

• Working as a doctoral candidate in Luxembourg
• Excellent English language skills
• Basic knowledge of office tools, experience with CRMs or HTML is only needed if you want to work with web editors
• Some experience in content production (writing, image or video) is desirable
• A good eye for attractive content
• Motivated

• Ideally 2 weeks block course
• Possibly a preparatory meeting 2 weeks before the start of the internship
• Workplace is ideally at 15th floor of MSA (Campus Belval)
• The possibility of remote internship to be discussed

CV and letter of motivation

6-10 per year