5 November 2022
The demand for strong voices in and from the CEE region is needed today more than ever before. Visegrad Insight prides itself on mapping out sound solutions for Europe’s contemporary challenges through our extensive media network and strategic foresight.
For those less experienced candidates who want to join our organisation and network, we offer a six-month Junior Fellowship position to kick-start your career.
By joining the Visegrad Insight team, you’ll not only join part of a large network of professionals in and from Central Europe, but you’ll also be a proactive element of the team by creating, researching, analysing, and writing on the current trends in CEE.
You’ll be tasked with a variety of different activities, from conducting research for articles and reports, or helping with administrative tasks such as outreach and running social media campaigns, to working collaboratively with other Junior Fellows organising online and in-person events.
You’ll be given the opportunity to work collaboratively on broader research topics, analysis of ongoing trends, and conducting foresight exercises.
We also expect our Junior Fellows will help co-produce special reports or help implement ongoing projects, all the while creating their own research and publishing on topics important to the CEE region.
For those who are self-starters and motivated to work as part of our team, you will gain the relevant experience to go on and continue to do sound work, as many of our Junior Fellows in the past have. Here are some of our success stories from Junior Fellows.
Jessica Moss (United States) is a scholar of international relations and communications professional. She recently completed her Erasmus Mundus Master in Global Studies, a joint degree program which transplanted her from her home in New York to study in Leipzig, Germany and Wrocław, Poland. Her research focuses on transatlantic relations, migration and political theory. She has worked across local, nonprofit, and national media landscapes, and is most passionate about producing work which bridges the gap between scholarship and policy.
Luca Flora Soltesz (Hungary) is a Junior Research Fellow at Visegrad Insight. She is passionate about politics, social justice, human rights, democracy and foreign affairs, writing news entries from Hungary and the Western Balkans and offering insight into political developments.
Maliek Banat (Ukraine) was a Visegrad Insight Junior Fellow who helped co-produce some of our foresight reports and took an active role in helping to produce our podcast. So much so, that he now works as the Podcast Editor at Visegrad Insight, where he produces the podcast weekly. He is also a student of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Marysia Ciupka (Poland) was a Junior Research Fellow at Visegrad Insight who helped implement some of our projects and organised events during her tenure. She is currently pursuing her master’s degree at EUROREG, Centre for European Regional and Local Studies at the University of Warsaw. She completed her BA with majors in Philosophy and Russian at Grinnell College, USA. Read Marysia’s articles here.
Agnieszka Homańska (Poland) was a Junior Research Fellow at Visegrad Insight who helped with organising events, networking between institutions, did background research for our projects, and helped create a large database to extend our network. She went on to now become a part of the Visegrad Insight staff as an Executive Assistant. She is currently pursuing her MA at the Warsaw University in International Relations and is a Holder of Konrad Adenauer Stiftung sur-place stipendium, co-founder and author in Młodzi o polityce, member of the Polish Forum of Young Diplomats and Club Alpbach Poland. Read Agnieszka’s articles here.
Kamil Jarończyk (Poland) was a Junior Fellow at Visegrad Insight who co-authored the “Towards 3SI Civil Society Forum Report”. Kamil’s editing skills led to a full-time position as the Managing Editor at Visegrad Insight (2021-2022). He is currently a policy and communications assistant at the International Union of Cinemas in Brussels. Read Kamil’s articles here.
Mastura Lashkarbekova (Tajikistan/Poland) is a second year MA student at Lazarski University in International Relations who holds a Bachelor degree in Business Administration and Accounting from the KIMEP University in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Her research interest is on China and Russia’s approaches toward Central Asia.
Johanna Patricius (Sweden) is a Junior Research Fellow at Visegrad Insight. She is pursuing her Master´s degree in Economic History at Uppsala University and have a BA in International Relations from Stockholm University. Johanna is half Hungarian and has written about Hungarian politics in several magazines. Current intern at a White Collar Trade Union (Akavia) and a former Political Advisor in a Stockholm Municipality. Alumn at The Foreign Policy Academy at Stockholm Free World Forum. Read Johanna’s articles here.
Sandra Sirvydyte (Lithuania) is a Master‘s student at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University. She is currently an assistant to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania. Her main areas of interest include foreign affairs and diplomacy.
Valdonė Šniukaitė (Lithuania) was a Visegrad Insight’s Junior Fellow who is currently pursuing her bachelor’s degree in Politics and Sociology at UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies. In her studies, Valdonė focuses on Baltic states’ foreign policy towards Russia and its informal practices in the Baltics. Read Valdonė’s articles here.
Michał Szkaradek (Poland) is a PhD student at the Doctoral School of Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw in the discipline of legal sciences. Winner of the scholarship of the Minister of Education and Science in 2021. Specialises in international law and human rights. An active observer of the political life of the V4 group.
Barbara Węgrzyn (Poland) was a Junior Research Fellow at Visegrad Insight who conducted background research for our projects, edited texts, and helped organise events during her tenure. University of Cambridge student. Akademia Wiedzy Obywatelskiej teammember. Formerly Cambridge Journal of Political Affairs Managing Editor for political anthropology.