CES offers a limited number of volunteer programmes per year for research students and those seeking work experience in eco-cultural related disciplines. The selected volunteers will have the opportunity to work with on-site scientists, researchers or service staff in education, scientific research and community development.
The research experience provides training in botany, zoology, wildlife conservation and management, community develpment, ethnology, sociology, ethnoarchaeology and speleology among other related fields.
The education project will involve community education in skills-development and related disciplines in non-destructive nature-based enterprises, language training, environmental education, health care, etc.
The interdisciplinary fields of community development will provide insight into the multifaceted lifeways of the agricultural forest-based communities living in buffers zones of the Sigiriya World Heritage Site and wildlife sanctuary.
At the end of the internship the volunteer interns who have succeeded in fulfilling the assigned tasks will be awarded a Certificate from CES. Interns who have been involved in the field research projects for not less than three months will also have the opportunity to co-author a reseach publication, depending on the individual performance.
Duration
A period of 1 to 3 months.
Internship Fees: US
$250 per month: includes basic field accomodation, local meals and field traveling
within the project site.
Application procedures
Interested students should send their curriculum vitae and a self-written essay (of not more than one A4 page) describing the specific interest in obtaining work experience in eco-cultural-related diciplines (via email if possible). After the initial review of applications, CES will request further details within a period of two weeks.
Snail-mail
CES Volunter internship Programme
Centre for Eco-cultural Studies (CES)
Sigiriya
Sri Lanka.
E-mail
centeco@hotmail.com
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