As of today, we are launching the admission period of our internship program for the semester of Autumn/Winter 2024. Our internship program is semester-long and is intended especially for university students in both bachelor’s and master’s programs. Primarily but not exclusively of security studies, international relations, and similar programs. If you are interested in the program, contact us at internship@securityoutlines.cz and send us all the documents necessary for applying to the program. The deadline is set for September 22, 2024.

What Documents Do You Need to Send?

Based on our best experience, we require the following documents.

• Curriculum Vitae
• Piece of your work (most ideally one of your university papers, seminar thesis etc.)
• Short admission task

What Are the Instructions for Admission Task?

Write an analytical summary of any security-related event, international or domestic, that has occurred in the last month. The text should be 1-2 standard pages long (1800-3600 characters), excluding the bibliography. This task will be evaluated especially based on the analytical depth and stylistics (text pace, grammar…) of the text and the quality of used sources. You may write this summary in Czech, Slovak or English, based on your preferences.

TIP: Less is sometimes more. Empty phrases and school project type of “stuffing” are not for the better in this task. Write engagingly but keep the text cohesive.

After I Get In, What Are the Internship’s Requirements?

For the upcoming semester, we offer two forms of the internship program. To bachelor’s students, we offer the program in the following form:

• The interns are required to write and submit 2 articles (in Czech, Slovak, or English), which will be published on the Security Outlines website. The topic of the article is predominantly up to each individual intern.
• For writing the article, each intern is assigned a senior member of our editorial office, depending on his/hers region of interest, which guides the intern through the article-writing process. An intern works on his/her article throughout the internship program (a semester). Interns receive comprehensive feedback on their work so they can improve their analytical and writing skills.

For master’s students the form is:

• The interns are required to write and submit 3 articles, which will be published on the Security Outlines website. The topics of these articles are predominantly up to each individual intern.
• The submission pace needs to be 1 article per month so that all 3 articles are already published or ready to be published at the end of the respective semester. The exact schedule for the respective semester is given to the interns after they are accepted to the program. Apart from that, it is essentially the intern’s choice when he/she wants to work on the articles.
• The estimated time burden is 80 hours spread over the whole semester.

What Do Our Interns Get?

As all the articles we publish go through a peer-review process (or editation, if you like), you receive feedback on each of your articles. This provides you with the opportunity to improve your analytical and writing skills. You can also include in your CV the internship as well as all your articles (we have our own ISSN). On top of all that, you will become a part of a great collective of people who are not only interested in the field of security and international relations but are already working within the field or are preparing to do so.

Also, you, of course, receive a confirmation of completion of the internship program so that you can get the internship recognized by, e.g., your university. Currently, we have an ongoing partnership with the Security and Strategic Studies program of the Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, the Institute of Political Science of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University and the Security Studies program at the Faculty of Political Science and International Relation, University of Matej Bela. Our internship is recognized by these institutions and their students can therefore receive ECTS credits for completing the internship. If you are coming from a different institution, contact the person responsible for this agenda within your organization to check the internship program is recognized.

If you have any questions regarding our internship program, contact us at internship@securityoutlines.cz and we will provide you with more detailed information and instructions for the admission task.