Pradeep Eranti
Fernanda Bajanca
Pradeep Eranti
Lidia Natalia Trusilewicz
Employment in International Organizations and European Institutions Career Fair
On January 23, 2016 for the eleventh time, the career fair "Employment in International Organizations and European Institutions" will be held in Berlin. The career fair is hosted by the German Foreign Office.
The event is aimed at students, graduates and professionals who are interested in international affairs. As diverse professional profiles are required by international organizations, the trade fair is not aimed at (budding) Economic and Political Scientists (m / f) alone, but is also relevant to engineers, chemists, lawyers, computer scientists, social scientists, doctors, media professionals, geographers, management scientists or meteorologists.
More details (in German) can be found at: http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/DE/AusbildungKarriere/IO/Personal/Karrieremesse/Uebersicht_node.html
Representatives of the following international organizations and European institutions will be present:
• Asian Development Bank, ADB
• European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN
• European Aviation Safety Agency, EASA
• European Court of Auditors, ECA
• European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, EBRD
• European Investment Bank, EIB
• European Molecular Biology Laboratory, EMBL
• European Union Agency for Network and Information Security, ENISA
• European Parlament, EP
• European Patent Office, EPO
• European Personnel Selection Office, EPSO
• European Space Agency, ESA
• European University Institute, EUI
• European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, EUMETSAT
• Council of Europe
• European Central Bank, ECB
• European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of the European Union, FRONTEX
• International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA
• International Criminal Court, ICC
• International Committee of the Red Cross, ICRC
• International Fund for Agricultural Development, IFAD
• International Labour Organisation, ILO
• International Monetary Fund, IMF
• International Organisation for Migration, IOM
• International Trade Center, ITC
• International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, ITLOS
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD
• Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, OPCW
• Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe , OSCE
• United Nations Development Programme, UNDP
• United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO
• United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR
• United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF
• United Nations Secretariat/United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, UN/UNODC
• United Nations Office for Project Services, UNOPS
• World Bank
• World Food Programme, WFP
• World Health Organization, WHO
• World Intellectual Property Organization, WIPO
• World Trade Organization, WTO
• Akademie Auswärtiger Dienst, Auswärtiges Amt
• Büro Führungskräfte zu Internationalen Organisationen, BFIO (Bureau for International Organizations' Personnel)
• Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik, DIE
• Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst/ Carlo Schmid Programm, DAAD/CSP
• EU-Career, Auswärtiges Amt
• Europäische Bewegung Deutschland, EBD
• Hertie School of Governance, HSoG
• Koordinator für Internationale Personalpolitik, Auswärtiges Amt, KIP
• kulturweit – Deutsche UNESCO-Kommission
• Mercator Program Center for International Affairs, MPC, Mercator Kolleg für
internationale Aufgaben
• Seminar für Ländliche Entwicklung (SLE), HU Berlin
• Verband deutscher Bediensteter bei internationalen Organisationen, VDBIO
• Zentrum für Internationale Friedenseinsätze, ZIF
5 Comments
Hi Roy,
I just saw this info today and thought I'd post it because I have met several people in MCAA who are interested in such career oppportunities. I guess the various potential employers have different requirements with regard to nationality. I looked quickly at the European Patent Office and they require European citizenship. I don't see why a patent examiner must have a particular nationality to do the job they do. This may be the case for many of the "European" organizations. Up until recently, the Marie Curie Actions themselves were relatively closed to "Third Country" researchers. I guess the truly international organizations won't have such restrictions: World Bank, World Intellectual Property Organization, World Health Organization, International Red Cross and so on.
The organization looks to be standard German Federal Ministry style. The career fair is for those interested in international affairs but the webpage is of course only available in German.
All the Best,
Brian
Talking of the Patent Office, it can be much more complicated, and since we are on the German group ...
A Chinese friend of mine, married to a German, with a doctorate in architecture from Cornell, starts now a trainership to become Patent Assessor (Patentanwalt). I quickly read on the wikipedia that with doctorate it takes 34 months and includes a study of 2 years in law at the FernUniversität Hagen, otherwise it takes 8-10 years.
Well, not sure she has German citizenship and if to be European Patent Assessor is easier, but it seems really complicated in Germany.
I applied for the Master in Informatics at the FernUni Hagen instead.
kind regards
Maria
Talking of the Patent Office, it can be much more complicated, and since we are on the German group ...
A Chinese friend of mine, married to a German, with a doctorate in architecture from Cornell, starts now a trainership to become Patent Assessor (Patentanwalt). I quickly read on the wikipedia that with doctorate it takes 34 months and includes a study of 2 years in law at the FernUniversität Hagen, otherwise it takes 8-10 years.
Well, not sure she has German citizenship and if to be European Patent Assessor is easier, but it seems really complicated in Germany.
I applied for the Master in Informatics at the FernUni Hagen instead.
kind regards
Maria
Hi Maria,
As far as I know, there are no nationality restrictions about who can qualify as a patent lawyer and work as one. I think there are restrictions about patent lawyers who qualify in one country (say USA) representing customers before the patent office of another country.
In this case, there are citizenship requirements about working for the European Patent Office as a patent examiner. These are the people who adminster patents inside the patent office and decide if the patent can be accepted or not. They have a status something similar to Commission employees and must be nationals of EU member states. The European Space Agency is exactly the same. CERN in Geneva is similar - I'm Irish and Ireland is not a member of CERN and I could not apply for a job there. Maybe I could collaborate on some project as a visiting scientist or be a Marie Curie Fellow there but not be a regular employee.
This career fair seems to be the German Foreign Office's initiative to place German citizens in various international and European organizations. Nevertheless I'm sure we have members of both German and other nationalities, who could take advantage of the event.
Thanks for the information about the FernUni Hagen. It's interesting from the point of view of continuing education.
Warm regards,
Brian
Hi Brian,
Thanks for posting this valueable piece of information. One small question: Do you know if holding an EU citizenship is a mandatory crieteria to be eligible for the offered jobs?