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WHO WE ARE

The European Parliament's Directorate-General for Parliamentary Research Services (DG EPRS) is the in-house research centre and think tank of the EP. It provides research, analysis and information, on an independent basis, to Members of the European Parliament (EP) and parliamentary committees on all EU policies, legislation and issues. Usually known as the European Parliamentary Research Service, we comprise four directorates: the Members' Research Service, the Directorate for Impact Assessment and European Added Value, the Directorate for the Library and Knowledge Services, and the Directorate for Resources.

In addition, there are three horizontal units within the Directorate-General's central services: the Strategy and Innovation Unit, the Linking the Levels Unit and the Strategic Foresight and Capabilities Unit. The directorate-general comprises a total of 23 units and just over 300 staff. 'Empowering through knowledge' is the guiding principle of EPRS, underpinning the mission of the entire DG. In concrete terms, between 2014 and 2020, EPRS:

• Answered over 19,000 requests for substantive research and analysis from over 90 per cent of individual Members of the European Parliament (MEP);
• Replied to over 2,900 such requests from other parliamentary clients;
• Undertook targeted research work for 20 parliamentary committees;
• Treated over 125,000 reference requests from within the Parliament and over 330,000 citizens' enquiries;
• Produced over 6,600 publications, most recently at a rate of around 700 physical publications and 250 digital-only texts annually.

A video about the EPRS is available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7mXXUZSq0g.

A video specifically on EPRS publications is available at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1bUdGQF96Y&feature=youtu.

The Strategy and Innovation Unit is a central service in the European Parliamentary Research Service directly attached to the office of the Director General. Our main objectives consist of assisting the Director General in, inter alia:        

• Pursuing a coherent internal and external communication strategy for the DG;
• Coordinating services to Members and their staff, including the operation of the EPRS' Members' Hotline;
• Enhancing cooperation with European and international think tanks and research bodies, including the organisation of joint events;
• Overseeing horizontal issues within the DG;
• Ensuring effective inter-DG cooperation within the Parliament's administration.

YOUR TASKS

The traineeship involves several, varied tasks which will allow you to familiarise yourself with multiple facets of activity in the EP. You will contribute to the EPRS Client Needs Team's intensive outreach and communication activities, the organisation of multiple online and physical events and conferences by the DG and you will be highly involved in the work of the DG's 'Multimedia team'.

Concrete tasks include:

• Contacting Members' offices to pro-actively alert them about the wide range of EPRS publications and services and to promote these;
• Generating statistics and reports on client usage of services and of client feedback;
• Coordination and provision of useful content for our various communication and social media channels (EPRS blog: http://epthinktank.eu/, EP Think tank webpages:  http://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/home.html,
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/ep_thinktank,
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpBeaEkpytvBHzHzcck0VyQ,
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/european-parliamentary-research-service);
• Contributing to innovation and optimisation of activities in the area of (digital) communication, publishing of (multi-media) content and outreach to several audiences.

YOU ARE

• You are an enthusiastic, highly pro-active, out-going, well-organised and communicative person, who has a genuine interest in helping EPRS to reach out to and serve its clients (Members of the European Parliament and by extension the whole House), as well as to the outside world;
• Preferably, you have a university degree in the field of political science, international or European affairs, (digital) communication, or another social science or a linked area;
• Having experience in handling data (MS Excel) and common practices for publishing online content would be an asset, as would an interest in presenting data in a visually attractive way;
• Able to work in English, other languages are an asset.

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