CeCES Internship Scholarships

To all Politics and International Students at the University of Southampton: You are are eligible to apply for a CeCES Internship Scholarship Award, which will provide you funding to support an internship opportunity, if you manage to secure one, during the period of summer 2025.

PAIR’s Centre for Comprehensive European Security (CeCES), which has been established this year following the successful funding application to the European Union, will offer this year up to 3,040 EUR per student for travel and/or accommodation expenses related to your internship.

Eligibility: This opportunity is open to UG and PGT students based in the Department of Politics and International Relations. It is open to students who manage to secure an internship opportunity for the summer of 2025 (max 2 months), either in the UK or abroad. The internship should (broadly) relate to the topics of International Relations, Europe, International Security (very broadly defined to include economic, environmental, societal, etc.). To be eligible, you must secure your internship place, and provide us with the written confirmation.

Process: We will be able to offer up to 3 scholarships this year and we will consider applications on a rolling basis until all three scholarships are awarded.

Please contact Dr Kamil Zwolski with any questions.

CeCES UG and PGT Dissertation Awards

To all Politics and International Dissertation Students at the University of Southampton: As you are beginning to work on your UG Dissertation, I wanted to draw your attention to a new Award we are establishing in PAIR: Jean Monnet Student Award for the best dissertation related to Europe and International Security and Geopolitics.

You will qualify for this award if your dissertation has some European dimension (it does not have to focus exclusively on Europe) and is also related to International Security (broadly construed, so can also include human, economic, environmental security) and/or Geopolitics.

If your dissertation will fall within that category, please send a message to Dr Kamil Zwolski.

The winning dissertation will be the one with the highest mark (final dissertation mark only). The award will most likely be £200 in the form of Amazon vouchers. 

This Award is organised by the Centre for Comprehensive European Security, which we have established in PAIR this year. It is supported generously by the European Union’s Erasmus+ Programme.