Green Economics Institute Trust

For Admission to the:Green Students, Interns and Scholars College

Programs: Students, Interns and visiting scholars paperwork, fees and matriculation

Studying on the Internship, Students and Visiting Scholars Programmes

Application and Matriculation Form 2012April, May,June, July 2012

1month, 2months, 3 months and 6 months, (Also suitable for Erasmus and Leonardo Students)

Many thanks for your application. We run Conferences, Speakers, Events, Journals, and Policy Briefings for Government and Books which make up the Green Economics Institute and which have spread green economics right round the world.The idea is to offer a pathway between university and the world of work and all our interns in good standing enjoy truly outstanding and absolutely top world class career prospects and we help them to get jobs and opportunities which are not necessarily advertised but are found through our global network of top contacts at all levels in many different walks of life.

We have now expanded and can offer a range of five different pathways:

PATHWAYS and PROGRAMMES OFFERED BY THE GREEN ECONOMICS INSTITUTE TRUST1) 1-6 months internship-training course for students: involving learning and writing and taught as tutorials and supervision. This course is intended to prepare students to be at the forefront of the Green economics revolution that was largely driven as a global phenomena by our Institute and to give them an advantage in this area but giving them the very latest information and to help participate in that innovation at the highest levels. This course is £500 to include: £60 for full membership of the Institute for one year and this includes matriculation for life (subject to good standing) and also to includes £100 on off fee for admission to the Oxford University Conference in July 2012 where they are given the opportunity to speak and to present their studies and ideas to Professors and people active in the industry from all over the world which provides them with opportunities for their subsequent careers.We regularly have Erasmus and other scholarship students on this programme. The fees for studying with us to cover, books, rent on the college and equipment and supervision. As with all our roles however, as soon as interns and students are able to provide work of value we pay for the

work. And when we receive client work and are invited to contribute to projects, we do give priority to current interns and specifically pay interns for the client projects. All of our full-time interns, who have worked hard and applied themselves to their studies, have received offers of payment, (as soon as the internship/training programme is completed and they are trained), for some substantially paid work project. After you have formally finished your internship, scholarship, training programme you will get priority for selection of paid teams for all of our project work, as we regard the internship and training programmes as a valuable and unique training for participating and working in our teams.

The fee for this course is £500. There are huge opportunities to publish in a variety of mediums with us and in practice most of our students do those.

2) 1-6 months work placement and trainees –This course is free of charge but we ask for £60 one off admin fee before commencement, which also covers membership of the Green Economics Institute for the year plus £100 admission to the Oxford University Conference July 2012 which is compulsory. This course is intended to form the bridge between study and the world of work involving volunteer work experience in a variety of settings: Conferences, Speakers, Events, and Journals, Policy Briefings for Government and Books and speeches. We then offer work on a continuing basis for those students who do well on the training. Previous students on this programme now are managers and directors in the institute and receive payment.

This programme is unpaid and does not involve a payment, but participants are expected to work providing research, speeches, publishing, academic and policy and campaigning events management, and other kinds of writing and work as required in the running of a charity which aims to reform economics, work towards environmental sustainability and human survivability and to prevent climate change, prevent and reduce poverty and its effects and to change the way economics is done. We do require students to help each other and others. Failure to do so will result in termination of the programme.

We regularly have Erasmus and other scholarship students on this programme. This pathway might appeal to those who want a career in teaching or in publishing or editing and possibly writing. It will particularly appeal to those wanting a career in management of any kind or industry or in practical work or charity or other administration or economics management or public speaking or policy work or briefings or any public bodies. This programme is unpaid although in practice many of our successful students do get paid for value adds they create towards the end of the internship. Here we look for participants to have a good attitude.

For these students on this programme they are all expected to come to the Oxford University Conference in July for which they can pay the reduced rate to participate the usual current participation rate for students in the normal way and these students are encouraged to become members of the Green Economics Institute as well so they receive all the usual information especially in the longer term. Currently £60 a year payable on acceptance on the interns’ course.

3) Visiting scholars – involving learning writing and taught as tutorials and supervision: the cost of this varies according to circumstances but basically £200 a month, usual length is 6 months. This programme is suitable for PHD, masters dissertation and also post doctoral students and also particularly life long learning students who wish to enhance their career prospects and to learn more about up to the minute innovations in this area. There are huge opportunities to publish in a variety of mediums with us and in practise most of our students do those. Students in good standing at the end of this programme receive matriculation into the Interns College and career support for life.

4) Groups of students from an organisation for a mixed programme course on green economics are currently £500 per student per month to enable us to provide more in depth contact time and facilities. This fee is payable by the institution on acceptance and agreement.

5) Remote students following one of our programmes outside the UK taught by email and skype calls– the fees currently for this are a one off fee of £250-£500 for the scholars programme. These students often do much writing and we can and do often publish their work as they progress if they wish.

Our previous students have gone on to a variety of jobs and opportunities- several have gone into the fast track civil service-many have received offers from the top schools in their countries in the UK, in France and in the USA – several have very good jobs with larger companies, some have gone into Parliaments, and the United Nations and other global institutions. There are lots of pathways but we always help our students in good standing in their careers. All successful students are offered some work afterwards. They all receive certificates.

We have a interns, students and visiting scholars programme. The form below helps us to understand your requirements whilst you are on the progamme and allows us to plan to provide it so please send it back in good time. Please send it back to greeneconomicsinstitute@yahoo.com so that we can continue to sort out the practical details of your Programme and matriculation within the Green Economics Institute College.

Perhaps the most unique and valuable aspect of our internship or Studentship or visiting scholarship is that it includes long term life long matriculation into The College of Green Students and Interns and Scholars at the Green Economics Institute Trust. This College is meant to provide continuous career support to you from the moment you complete your course with us. It is modeled on the collegiate system of Oxford University, and includes hundreds of highly placed individuals – formerly interns like you – who have gone on to impressive careers. This network will likely be the most valuable asset you gain from any career-based experience, either now or in the future.

As an intern, visiting scholar or student or trainee, you are offered the opportunity to publish, lecture, and meet exciting people from the field of politics, academia, NGOs, agencies, and business according to your interests. We require all interns to share a part of running the institute, or its publications, its speaking events and its event organization whilst receiving excellent supervision, formal tutorials and learning. In order for this very unique internship programme to function, we ask that you give as much as you gain, integrating into the team, and keeping a team-oriented perspective. We look for conscientiousness, willingness to work, dedication to the issues of the world, alertness, and willing to work on their career.

Current interns/student/ trainees/work placement trainees have advised we look for “those who feel that there is something wrong in the world that needs changing. Then they feel dedicated to working and making a difference, and to be given the tools, practical, philosophical and intellection to innovate and to lead themselves throughout their carers, and grateful for the opportunities acquired at the institute.”

Naturally, we expect that you will apply yourself to the level befitting an intern in one of the world’s most sought-after internships/studentships/trainees that they work hard and making yourself available for meetings in the office when required. While not all work will be carried out in the office, your flexibility and willingness to collaborate both inside and outside the office is both required and greatly appreciated. Students work on their own and have tutorials with their peers and their Institute tutors, as the method of teaching as well as some lectures and some attending or even arranging conferences.

The following form is to establish your availability times, consider practical aspects such as accommodation, clarify what you will be contributing and establish what you hope to gain. Please

return this form promptly; ensuring that it is in either .odt (open source) or .doc (word).

Application Form of Interns, students, scholars, trainees, scholars Building our innovative Team!

Many thanks for taking the time to fill this form in. We do not expect anyone to have marked all the below – so do not worry – just let us know which apply to you, which you enjoy, and then we can allocate you to the right projects. This form is confidential. We now require from each applicant the following:

Please fill in this form Please send this form with a covering letter about your motivation and reasons for applying and

what you can offer the Green Economics Institute Please provide the names and contact details of 2 professional or academic referees (we wont

contact them until you are accepted on the programme) We will also organize a telephone interview or telephone chat for you with members of our team

PLEASE state which programme you are applying for.

Name Surname

Phone number Permanent

Phone number when you are with us -(if known)

Email address

Postal address permanent (required for UK Border Agency)

Postal address when you are with us in UK – if known

Please advise contact details for interview and internship planning via skype

Main subject you are studying. Title of your university, college or institution if applicable, department and country

Title of your course

Elements of your courses you are taking e.g. macro economicsenvironmental science, social theory, climate science?

Previous studying

Dates when you are available to be an intern (everyone must fill this in)

Where are you based?

Your Nationality

Do you need a work permit or visa? Please advise as it can delay starting if its not organized -so let us know what you need

Do you have a grant or scholarship? Please state which one? Or other financial assistance? Are you self funding?

Previous work experience

Level of knowledge of green issues

Level of knowledge of economics or business or development issues etc?

What you can offer the institute

What the institute can offer you. What would you like to get out of the internship in particular so we ensure we can provide it and focus on it

Membership information form required?

We don’t expect you to come in every day- but can you work from home or near by and attend meetings at the Institute? We are mainly based in Reading, Berkshire with most of our conferences at Oxford University. We have tutorial meetings most weeks and contact most days. We expect the student to keep in contact most days by telephone or email. Failure to do so may result in the ending of the programme without a certificate.

For the following we expect everyone to attend the Oxford University Conference 19th-21st July 2012. Can you help during July 2012 at Oxford University at our annual conference and ideally in the weeks before?

Can you help with our events programme this year-based in Rio, Reading, Qatar, Istanbul and lots of other places, Ethiopia, Norway, Australia, China, Germany, Belgium, France, USA, Hong Kong, and Malaysia,Nepal.We don’t guarantee any travel but at least 50% of our work is overseas. If students show themselves suitable then they are invited to help us present abroad if there is an opportunity. (We do not offer an automatic right to this – but in practice more of our interns do get some opportunity like this.) Payment for travel is only if there is a business case for us to ask you to go.

Can you make a spreadsheet and run conference or event bookings? Do you have experience of running events? Please give details

Can you write articles?

Can you review articles for our academic journals and books

We need people to type up new contacts for our database- can you help with that sometimes?

Would you like to develop our publishing and liaise with publishers and run our publishing programme? visit the Frankfurt book fair with us in October 2012

Can you lecture? Would you like to learn?

Can you give speeches- would you like to learn as we have speaking engagements all over the world

Can you set up new branches and contacts in other countries? Which ones?

Advertising, PR and marketing? Would that interest you?

Writing and policy development. We are writing books, briefings papers and government policy. Would that interest you?

We are writing and defining green accounting, Green IT and green procurement – please advise if these are your field

We need lots of economists and scientists to develop our models of what is green economics. Can you help with this? Would that interest you?

We need climate change, wind renewable energy economists, can you help with this. Would that interest you?

We need social scientists, poverty development and women’s unequal pay etc specialists. Would that interest you?

We work advising governments- would this work appeal to you? We also lecture in campaigning organizations – sometimes outside camping- which style appeals to you?

We need philosophers and people who can rework theories-do that appeal? Would that interest you?

We need biodiversity and biologists. Can you help us develop an economics of biodiversity loss?

There may well be other things you wish to offer. Please describe them here.e.g. Please put here if you can help with music at our events.

Bid Managers. We need fund raisers and people who can do grant applications and who want to go on and run charities in the future? As we have a trust. Does that appeal to you?

Education: We need people who are interested in education.Do you like creating and running processes: e.g. setting up Masters Courses and accreditation schemes?

Economics and the Crisis: Conceptualizing innovative solutions to the credit crunch and new financial architectures. Would that interest you?

Business: We need business specialists or interns who are studying this and we need institutional agency specialists or interns who are studying this. Would

that interest you?

Equal opportunities: Do you consider yourself from an ethnic minority in your country, or refugee? Do you have special needs? Do you have health requirements? (if yes, please explain)

Do you have a driving license?Do you have any police record? Have you ever been arrested?Have you ever been charged with an offence? Have you ever been declared bankrupt?Do you have any mental or physical conditions that affect others in the team or those around you? Do you have any special needs of health issues we need to know about?

Have you lived, worked or studied in more than one country?

Can you read write or speak more than one language-please give details? As we find this extremely useful

Would you consider your interests multidisciplinary? If so please explain

We try to have a balance of gender, age, geographical spread and developed and less developed countries and Eastern and western Europe. Please help us by giving us an idea of your experience in this.

IT skills- can you provide details of your skills or interests on web, excel, PowerPoint, word, open source etc

Do you prefer people? (Some of our work is networking and some of our work is very theoretical) or do you prefer writing – theory etc?

What sort of things would you like to be doing 20 years from now? What contribution would you like to make to the world?

Each year we take a small number of people who are under 18 during the month of July Conference period- to help with our annual conference. It is important that terms and conditions are agreed formally for insurance and safety If you are under 18: please explain conditions under which you come-is it via school, is it for work experience?

If you are coming as part of a college or scholarship programme, can you explain forms, and insurances that the Green Economics Institute will need to sign – if possible please attach them here. Please explain if you are coming as part of scholarship or other programme

If you are at university, please explain how the internship is part of or contributes to your course formally. Please attach formal course requirements to your application. Also please send forms we have to fill in for you so we can create the right programme for you.

Do you have accommodation sorted out before you start? Please do not arrive here until you have this all sorted out as we are unable to help you once you arrive- you need to organize this in advance. We can advice and the local universities do have accommodation which may be suitable but it’s too late once you have arrived in the UK. We expect our students to plan ahead and organize it beforehand.

For all students due to foreign office regulations we now require proof of ID and we require a scanned copy of your passport and also proof from your university that you are a student and if you come from certain countries you need a formal permission to work via the UK Border Agency- you need to supply all of this to us -before coming to us -and ensure we have copies of it all please.

Please note that false information supplied here will result in immediate dismissal without a refund.

Check list before arrivala) fill in registration form – this document – send in to us via emailb) on acceptance pay fee via bank transfer c) on our receipt plan accommodation and agree dates d) send in to us UK Border Agency information including a scan of your passport and your postal address and full name.e) send us references contacts so we can confirm the place f) arrange by agreement when you start your internship. Ensure both parties have agreed the date and practical

information.g) enjoy your internshiph) do a report for our website about the internshipi) join our Interns College for life j) enjoy support for life for your careerk) come to the Oxford University conference every yearl) please take out insurance – health and accident insurance for yourself and provide us with a copy of the documents when you start

We advocate non violence in everything we do at all times, as our methodology and respect other's gender, religion, race, disability, abilities, backgrounds, age and work with The Truth and Reconciliation Committees to enable and work for Peace at all times. We work in some of the world’s hottest spots of conflicts and many of our people are some kind of refugee backgrounds. Please sign the form to confirm that you agree to respect all of our team no matter how their background and opinions may differ from your own. …………………………..(signature)We also are very gender specific and advocate full women's rights and full women's equality at all times. We work for all people everywhere not just power elites, ruling genders or classes and we practice what we preach in all our activities and in all our writing and our work. Please confirm here that you are in accordance with this. …………………………..(signature)

Very exceptionally, and exceptionally rarely, failure to observe our rules and standards, being deliberately disruptive to the management or other students, or endangering yourself or others contravening health and safety or bringing the institute into disrepute or to accept direction from the management team or failure to co operate with other members of the team. This would result in 2 gentle and polite warnings, and then if no improvement is forth coming an immediate dismissal from the Institute with no refund. We cannot keep interns who do not follow instructions from the management. This will mean you would not receive a certificate of successful completion and your reference might be compromised. Where health and safety are concerned this process will be implemented quickly and immediately and is regarded as gross misconduct as we don’t take risks with your or our safety or that of other students.

All students will receive regular and frequent feedback and encouragement on their work. This is usually done by telephone, or in person. We have formal weekly tutorials which students are expected to attend. In practice most students get daily supervision usually by email and telephone.Information about the team learnt in the course of your work with the Institute is confidential and not to be passed on or used for any other purpose.

Please send this back as soon as you can as we are working on allocating resources at the moment and considering applications. Please send filled form to greeneconomicsinstitute@yahoo.com and greeneconomicsevents@yahoo.co.uk

Courses and college tuition RoomsWe need the forms back in order to book the training and tutorial rooms for students. No rooms will be booked unless and until these forms are returned.

A tutorial in the Green Economics Institute's garden of the Reading office, with Students from Australia and South Africa and UK, and Hong Kong.

Further Information The Green Economics Institute study programmes (Including internships, scholars, visiting scholars and trainees and work placement trainees.)

Interns may stay longer by agreement if they are contributing to the work of the team. The Programme is extremely competitive and is based as much on attitude and ability to contribute to and work as part of a team as insight, vision and ability. We also have some scholarships for those coming from less developed countries that show exceptional ability and again willingness to work as part of our management team.

However proof of financial situation is required before fees are reduced on hardship grounds. Please enquire. One is turned away because they can’t afford it.

The fees are payable upon your acceptance of our offer and the full fees include the price of matriculation into the lifetime Interns College and it includes admission to all three days of the Oxford University Conference and the opportunity to publish and present there for every year in the future although after you finish being a student you will need to pay the normal fee for registration.

All interns/scholars and students will be interviewed by telephone, all interns will need to provide contacts for us to obtain formal references one from school or from university and or a previous employer.

The relevant fees (see above) are payable upon your acceptance of an offer to join the programme and the full fees include the price of matriculation into the lifetime Interns/Scholars and students College and it includes admission to all three days of the Oxford University Conference and the opportunity to publish and present there for every year in the future although after you finish being a student you will need to pay the normal fee for registration.

The fees enables us to provide you with a lifetime of help, mentoring, and assistance with your career long after your initial programme has finished and an extremely high quality of the life long learning programme, offering you our unique package of excellent supervision, individual tutorials, tuition, academic and extremely effective career guidance. Your internship/studentship/scholar time/traineeship, if you obtain a satisfactory standard according to our management board whose decision is final, will include a certificate of completion and you will formally become a matriculated member into the Scholars and Intern’s College. It also includes the payment for the first year of a lifetime membership to the Green Economics Institute Scholars and Interns College and the associated excellent and world class quality life-long career support that comes with it.

It also entitles you to one calendar year of free Institute membership from the end of your internship or work placement. Thank you for helping us to meet the costs of this unique programme, and to continue offering unique opportunities. Your experience will help you make excellent contacts, great benefits, and free attendance at our members-only events, and registration to receive our special networking journal, The Green Economist, every year.

We do receive notice of a large number of regular, exciting, and relevant jobs, employment information, and opportunities. These we pass on to our participation teams, allowing most consultants and interns to receive interesting and often highly paid jobs and placement offers after studying or a traineeship or internship with us, often as a direct result.

So far, we have enjoyed a spectacular success rate of helping our consultants/scholars and interns into the next stage of their career, and in the last 12 months alone, highlights include one former intern being accepted into the fast-track civil service economics, and two former interns have received offers from Oxford University as a direct result of working with us. Most of our team has published at the highest level of journals and books. Two of our team were negotiators at the Copenhagen Summit, one writing a text that became the treaty, and one of our team was accepted into the Grand Ecole in Paris. Four of our network members are connected with winners or organizers of the Nobel Prize.

In order to plan for your involvement, we are asking you to help us by also filling in the following form, and sending it back to us so that we can sort out the practical details.

We help all of our interns and trainees with the next stages of their career. Please see the interns and the photos section of our website for much more in depth information and reports and pictures of previous interns and members of our international Training and Interns College, which enables you to join a vast and growing network of some of the most talented young people on the planet who will help you with your career permanently into the future. The Training and Interns College meets once a year at Oxford University for our Interns College Day, which was founded by Cambridge University member and former intern Sophie Henstridge.

* After your internship is complete, maintaining your status as an active member of the Interns College is £60 per year for students

and non students. This rule applies to all aspects of membership in the Institute, including the board and general membership.

Picture Above: Green Economics Annual Conference, July 2009, Mansfield College, Oxford, some of the 100 participants . Below Right: Recipients of Certificate for completion of Internship and matriculation into Intern’s College, July 2009, at Annual Conference, Mansfield College: Left-Right (back): Interns at our Oxford University Conference at the launch of the Interns College 2009 Adrian Nell: Zimbabwe, David Nicholsby, UK/Cyprus, Miriam, Germany, Sophie Henstridge, UK and Director of Interns’ College, Mahelet Mekonnen, Ethiopia, (front) Elliot Mbiko, South Africa, and Charles Li Yui, China.

Picture: Green Economics Institute running a lecture at Venice International University on the Economics of Sustainable Development for officials of the Balkan Governments together with NGOs from the Balkan and Eastern

European Countries.

Student's acceptance of the place offered to you on the programme

Any serious, unreasonable or deliberate breach, (such as racist or violent behavior or contravening serious health and safety) of this would on the decision of the Directors or the Trustees then be removed without a refund.

In return the Institute and other members of the Interns College, (many of whom are now working in top jobs or studying in top colleges and universities all over the world), agrees to help the Intern throughout their entire career and to offer precedence to interns in the jobs they know about and opportunities that arise and also to provide references and other support as well as passing on careers knowledge and advise and ensuring once a year the intern is invited to the annual interns college meeting and conference at Oxford University. The intern will continue to be part of the Green Economics Institute global network.

Total matriculation invoice: …………..£ please complete which one you are applying for.

Please pay prior on receiving formal written notification of acceptance of the Student and to the College, and prior to commencement, and in advance of the Internship in order that we can make arrangements to accommodate you and provide support for you and your work and we prepare for each intern carefully and this takes time to organize.

All payments must be received by us at least 1 month prior to starting to course to allow us to ensure there are places available and staffing to supervise you. Also your proof of identity for the UK border agency must be received and evidence of your insurance. Name

Email

Postal Address (include several if they are relevant)

Telephone number remember to include the codes

Method of payment

Date of payment (please send us this form filled in)

Please send this to us with a signature that you agree to the above terms- as soon as you have been accepted onto the programme.

Signed by student

Banks payment to account: Bank transfer UK Payments Pay to the account of Green Economics Limited

20 11 7463426963

Non UK Non UK Payments: Pay by Bank Transfer: Barclays Bank PLC, Bracknell, Area Branches, Bracknell, Berks. RG12 GREEN ECONOMICS LIMITED,

IBAN GB28 BARC 2011 7463 4269 63 SWIFT BIC BARCGB22

Please also fill in this section to enable us to provide a quality internship. This section is to be filed in in liason with our team as soon as you have been accepted on the programme

I. DETAILS OF THE STUDENT

Name of the student:

Email address of the student

Postal and email:

1. address of student- permanent

2. Host : postal and email : if known:

3. Sending university- email and postal address

Subject area: Academic year :

Degree :

Name and contact details of Sending institution email and Postal address: and email address

II. DETAILS OF THE PROPOSED TRAINING PROGRAMME ABROAD

Host organisation: The Green Economics Institute, 6 Strachey Close, Tidmarsh, Reading, RG8 8EP

Contact person for interns: Miriam Kennet Director

(Member of Oxford University Mansfield College and Environmental Change Institute Oxford University)

Managers of Interns: Senior Director Interns:Miriam Kennet, Kristina Jociute, Michelle Gale De Oliveira and others.

Planned dates of start and end of the placement period: from … . till ....... , total …… months

I Knowledge, skills and competence to be acquired

1.Running academic and other events with an economics policy outcome and purpose

2 Academic writing, editing and publishing – journal articles and books and policy documents

3 Speaking teaching training running events at the highest possible international quality level..

II Detailed programme of the training period

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III Tasks of the trainee

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IV Monitoring and evaluation plan1.Tutorials once a week on a formal basis with our team members depending on the students own speciality and interests.In practise there is daily phone and email contact and students are expected to ensure this occurs and that they are in contact every day during the internship.

2.Feedback and advise from our Tutors who will also mentor the student most days by email during the internship and working with other management team members- who seek to encourage and train interns during the internship. It is anticipated that the student will work closely with other interns as part of a lively team.

3.We ask all interns to do an interns report just before completion and to do one academic project which can be converted into a talk at Oxford or other University Conference, under supervision and then converted into a published article or several for our academic and other journals at various levels.

We work closely with the student to prepare the subject for this which will help them in deciding on a future career. Students tend to find this very useful and we take a life long learning and professional development view when selecting a subject for this more in depth study.

III. COMMITMENT OF THE THREE PARTIES

By signing this document the student, the sending institution and the host organisation confirm that they will abide by the principles of the Quality Commitment for Erasmus student placements set out in the document below.

The student

Student’s signature........................................................................... Date:

The sending institution

We confirm that this proposed training programme agreement is approved. On satisfactory completion of the training programme the institution will record the training period in the Diploma Supplement.

Coordinator’s name and function

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Coordinator’s signature

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Date: ...................................................................

Institutional coordinator’s name and signature

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Date:

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The host organisation

The student will receive a financial support for his placement Yes No

The student will receive a contribution in kind for his placement Yes No

We confirm that this proposed training programme is approved. On completion of the training programme the organisation will issue a Certificate to the student so long as the student is in good standing, has paid their fees, and has performed to the best of their own ability and has had a good attitude throughout the internship and helped their collegues.

Coordinator’s name and function

...........................................Miriam Kennet Director ...................

Certificate will be issued by

Miriam Kennet and Volker Heinemann Directors .....

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Coordinator’s signature

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Date: ...............................................

QUALITY COMMITMENT

For student placements

We seek to provide this Quality Commitment replicating the principles of the European Quality Charter for Mobility

THE SENDING HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTION* UNDERTAKES TO: Define the learning outcomes of the placement in terms of the knowledge, skills and competencies to be acquiredAssist the student in choosing the appropriate host organisation, project duration and placement content to achieve these learning outcomesSelect students on the basis of clearly defined and transparent criteria and procedures and sign a placement contract with the selected students.Prepare students for the practical, professional and cultural life of the host country, in particular through language training tailored to meet their occupational needsProvide logistical support to students concerning travel arrangements, visa, accommodation, residence or work permits and social security cover and insuranceGive full recognition to the student for satisfactory completed activities specified in the Training AgreementEvaluate with each student the personal and professional development achieved through participation in the Erasmus programme

THE SENDING INSTITUTION* AND HOST ORGANISATION JOINTLY UNDERTAKE TO: Negotiate and agree a tailor-made Training Agreement (including the programme of the placement and the recognition arrangements) for each student and the adequate mentoring arrangementsMonitor the progress of the placement and take appropriate action if required

THE HOST ORGANISATION UNDERTAKES TO: Assign to students tasks and responsibilities (as stipulated in the Training Agreement) to match their knowledge, skills, competencies and training objectives and ensure that appropriate equipment and support is availableDraw a contract or equivalent document for the placement in accordance with the requirements of the national legislationAppoint a mentor to advise students, help them with their integration in the host environment and monitor their training progressProvide practical support if required, check appropriate insurance cover and facilitate understanding of the culture of the host country

THE STUDENT UNDERTAKES TO: Comply with all arrangements negotiated for his/her placement and to do his/her best to make the placement a successAbide by the rules and regulations of the host organisation, its normal working hours, code of conduct and rules of confidentialityCommunicate with the sending institution about any problem or changes regarding the placementSubmit a report in the specified format and any required supporting documents at the end of the placement

In the event that the higher education institution is integrated in a consortium, its commitments may be shared with the co-ordinating organisation of the consortium

This form is based on the Erasmus Scheme quality agreement (in which we take part regularly) which we seek to provide to all our interns. All interns must therefore ensure they complete this agreement with the Green Economics Institute and ensure that adequate provision for insurance covers them and that they have agreed programme of work with the Green Economics Institute and have paid the fees as above to cover the costs of working with the Trust and receiving the benefits.

The registered office Green Economics Institute Trust6 Strachey CloseTidmarshReading RG8 8EP(This form must be completed and signed before the commencement of the Internship. All Erasmus and Leonardo Forms must be signed and agreed before the student arrives on the programme. No student may begin before the forms have been finalised and signed and returned to the appropriate scheme authority.)