Internships

Internships

Full-time or part-time | Budapest based

An internship at REAL School Budapest is unlike your typical education internship—because we are unlike your typical school. At REAL (Relevant, Entrepreneurial, Art-filled Learning) School, we take a different approach. Instead of conventional lessons, rigid curricula, and fixed grade levels, we foster mixed-age learning communities where education is primarily project-based. We’d love for you to already be familiar with this approach! Our educators co-design meaningful projects with learners, working closely with our partners to create hands-on, locality-based, and community-engaged learning experiences that inspire curiosity and creativity.

REAL School is an entrepreneurial school. We are looking for self-starters, self-led, self-determined people, passionate individuals who are creative, collaborative, and communicate well in English as well as in some of the languages our own learners speak. We are a fast-paced, innovative and agile environment - a TEAL organisation, where the only constant is change. Our interns need to be able to ask for help and seek out and accept feedback, and act on it.

Our interns are team players, people who can spot where they need to step in or step up without needing too much hand holding. 

The aim is that by being thrown into the pool at the deep end, you start swimming fast, and learn lots of skills, while gaining a new understanding of how real-life schooling can better serve learning.

Internships at REAL School last 3-6 months, September-June. Internships are self-funded, you will need to secure your own funding through a third party. Internship at REAL School is not a holiday, it’s hard work. It’s also an opportunity to grow personally and professionally, and to feel that you are already making a dent in the universe.

To apply, please submit a complete application by uploading your CV, answer the questions, and share an unlisted Youtube or Vimeo link of introduction where you talk about your passion - what inspires you, drives you, gets you out of bed in the morning, or stays on your mind until your last thought at night.

REAL School Budapest respects and advocates diversity and is an equal opportunity environment. committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Applicants must undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including references from previous employers by following our safer recruitment practice. Enhanced Criminal Records Bureau Disclosure or equivalent will be required for all prior countries lived. All positions of employment are dependent on the fulfilment of Hungarian employment law requirements.

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