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The Millennium Project (TMP)

  • Type: INGO
  • Field: Peace&Security
  • Region: North America
  • Location: Washington, DC, USA
  • Internship Title: International intern
  • Duration: 3-12 months
  • Number of Interns: 3-10
  • Special Requirement: Prefer students majoring in International Affairs / Software Engineering / Sociology / Philosophy / Public Relations / History / Marketing / Hard Sciences (Physics, Chemistry, and Biology).
  • Application Status: Available
  • Remote Internship: Acceptable
The Millennium Project is a global participatory think tank established in 1996 under the American Council for the United Nations University that became independent in 2009 and has grown to 67 Nodes around the world (an MP Node is a group of institutions and individuals that connect local and global perspectives).

Purpose: 
Improve humanity’s prospects for building a better future.

Mission:
Improve thinking about the future and make that thinking available
through a variety of media for feedback to accumulate wisdom about the future for better decisions today.

Vision:
A global foresight network of Nodes, information, and software, building a global collective intelligence system recognized for its ability to improve prospects for humanity. A think tank on behalf of humanity, not on behalf of a government, or an issue, or an ideology, but on behalf of building a better future for all of us.
Internship Tasks：

The Millennium Project offers internships of several months to one year, which can be full-time or part-time (a minimum of 20 hours per week), and can be in Washington, DC or as a tele-Internship. We are looking for creative, self-starters who can work with little supervision and like to initiate improvements. Interns have the opportunity to work on:
● Updating and improving one or more of the 15 Global Challenges. This includes working on briefing situation charts; text; future implications of news and other developments; computer models; finding leading experts; identifying resources from best websites to books, models, and videos.
● Helping to improve the Global Futures Intelligence System. This includes helping to develop the user interface and programming in javascript.
● Public relations/communications – how to connect people, ideas, and resources to improved decisions.
● Other futures research as it arises during the time of the internship such as the AI governance, counters to information warfare, future work/technology strategies, environmental security, science & technology, global scenarios, and to identify leading minds in various fields.
● Those more interested in methodology can help update the “Futures Research Methodology.”
● General support for the CEO such as improved pptx graphics, monitoring project listservs, data entry, check draft texts for errors, and reviewing new software for project applications. Requirements change from month to month.

Requirements：
● Bachelor’s degree (completed/ongoing). Prefer graduate students 
● Prefer students majoring in International Affairs / Software Engineering / Sociology / Philosophy / Public Relations / History / Marketing / Hard Sciences (Physics, Chemistry, and Biology)
● Fluency in spoken and written English
● Strong interpersonal and English communicative skills
● Proficiency in MS software (e.g. Word, Excel, Power point)
2016-07-21 | Washington, DC USA – Meeting
2015 | San Francisco, CA USA – Meeting
2014-07-07 | Santo Domingo, Dominican Rep – Meeting
2013 | Baku, Azerbaijan – Meeting
2012 | Toronto, ON Canada – Meeting
2011 | Vancouver, BC Canada – Meeting
2010 | Boston, MA USA – Meeting
2009 | Chicago, IL USA – Meeting
2008 | Washington, DC USA – Meeting
2007 | Minneapolis, MN USA – Meeting
2006 | Toronto, ON Canada – Meeting
2005 | Belgium – Meeting
2005 | Chicago, IL USA – Meeting
2004 | Washington, DC USA – Meeting
2004 | Sao Paulo, Brazil – Meeting
2003 | Washington, DC USA – Meeting
2003 | San Francisco, CA USA – Meeting
2002 | Philadelphia, PA USA – Meeting
2002 | Washington, DC USA – Meeting
2001 | Minneapolis, MN USA – Meeting
2001 | Washington, DC USA – Meeting
2000 | Houston, TX USA – Meeting
2000 | Washington, DC USA – Meeting
1999 | Washington, DC USA – Meeting
1999 | Washington, DC USA – Meeting
1998 | Washington, DC USA – Meeting
1998 | Chicago, IL USA – Meeting
1997 | Washington, DC USA – Meeting
1997 | Washington, DC USA – Meeting
1996 | Washington, DC USA – Meeting
1996 | Washington, DC USA – Meeting
Relations
Relations with Inter-Governmental Organizations
Links with:
F-XF2335 – Global Environment Facility (GEF);
F-XF1393 – International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD); E-XE3382 – UNDP; B-XB3383 – UNESCO
Relations with Non-Governmental Organizations
Links with: 
U-XG5412 – Institute for Alternative Futures, Alexandria VA (IAF); 
G-XM3521 – Institute for International Urban Development (I2UD); 
many other NGOs which participate in MP studies; national societies.

Members
Country, regional and non-geographic nodes (60) representing 57 countries and the Caribbean (countries not specified) in 54 countries:
Member Countries & Regions
United Arab Emirates, Armenia, Argentina, Australia, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Czech Rep, Germany, Dominican Rep, Egypt, Spain, Finland, France, UK, Georgia, Greece, Croatia, Hungary, Israel, India, Iran Islamic Rep, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Korea Rep, Kuwait, Sri Lanka, Montenegro, Mexico, Malaysia, Netherlands, Peru, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Slovakia, El Salvador, Tunisia, Turkey, Tanzania UR, Uganda, USA, Uruguay, Venezuela, South Africa
Non-geographic nodes (2): Arts/Media; Cyber Node.  
Regional networks of nodes (2).
Member Organizations
European Foresight Monitoring Network, Red IBERoamericana de Prospectiva