Ukraine Global Scholars. Summer Internship
Undoubtedly, Ukraine has great talents! Each year, Ukrainian students join world leading schools and demonstrate high-level performance there. Having unique experience abroad, these young people can make a big difference in Ukraine. Unfortunately, due to limited opportunities for those talented graduates in Ukraine, they tend to choose financial safety and career opportunities abroad over uncertainty in Ukraine and this causes brain drain. Kyiv Hub of Global Shapers is willing to change it.
“The goal of our initiative is to offer competitive opportunities for professional growth and development and retain skillful Ukrainian students after graduation from schools and universities abroad.”
Ukraine Global Scholars
For our project to reduce brain drain in Ukraine, Global Shapers Kyiv Hub is partnering with Ukraine Global Scholars (UGS) to support their Summer Internship Program.
UGS is a public charity raising a new generation of Ukrainian leaders. Since 2015, UGS has helped 62 Ukrainian high school students receive $18M+ (eighteen million US dollars) in scholarships. UGS’s Scholars are currently enrolled at top schools including Harvard, Stanford, MIT, NYU Abu Dhabi, Columbia University, Yale University, Dartmouth College, the Taft School, Deerfield Academy, the Lawrenceville School, Phillips Andover Academy, Choate Rosemary Hall, etc.
Ukraine Global Scholars changes young talents’ lives by offering financial and administrative support.
“It also makes a bigger impact by requiring those students to return to Ukraine after graduation and take a full-time position in Ukraine-based businesses/organizations for at least five years.”
To comply with these requirements, all admitted UGS Scholars complete summer internships in Ukraine, leveraging their education and already becoming a part of a community of Ukrainian leaders.
Foreign-educated interns in Ukraine (summer 2020)
Currently, we are looking for partners — small, mid-size, and large companies as well as NGOs and other organizations — which are interested in hosting skilled, innovative, and high-potential summer interns. UGS is pleased to offer 30 candidates aged between 17–22 years old, who are available for 4–8 week paid internship ($250+) starting from June 2020.
REGISTER YOUR INTEREST HERE
Our candidates have:
- proven leadership skills as well as great soft and problem solving skills;
- fluent English and knowledge of other foreign languages;
- education from the best schools in the US, Europe, China, and Qatar;
- junior work experience (internships, competitions, personal projects, etc.)
Priority areas: consulting, investment banking, IT, engineering, data science, marketing, energy, pharmaceuticals, genetics, law, government, NGOs, and others.
DISCOVER OUR CANDIDATES HERE
We would be grateful if you consider to host our great candidates in your organizations during the summer 2020. This way, you will help us reduce brain drain and contribute to the professional and personal growth of those students, who have enormous potential to become Ukraine’s next generation of leaders and make a real difference in the world.
Contacts
Olga Bezverkha (Global Shapers) — bezverkha.olya@gmail.com;
Julia Lemesh (UGS President) — jlemesh@ukraineglobalscholars.org.
