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Parliament Watch: Call for Interns

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The Institute for Democracy “Societas Civilis” (IDSCS) and the Institute for Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans (IECOB) announce a call for paid internships for motivated students or recent graduates from all fields of social science, analysts and activists from CSOs.

A total of three interns will be trained and will have the opportunity to participate in monitoring the quality of parliamentary debates in the Macedonian Assembly and analysis of the media reporting on the work of the Assembly in the period 1 October – 30 November 30. The monitoring is conducted in the framework of the project “Parliament Watch! Strengthening the political debate and the deliberative discourse”.

Monitoring of parliamentary debate: Two interns will be involved in the monitoring and evaluation of the quality of parliamentary debate.

IDSCS in this call will choose two interns who will become part of the internship program. The selected interns will spend two days training on “Deliberative democracy and use of the Discourse Quality Index (DQI)”. DQI is the basis for monitoring and evaluation the quality of debate in seven parliamentary committees and plenary sessions.

Interns will follow the hearings by parliamentary television channel and onsite in the parliamentary premises.

The daily engaging of the observers will vary depending on the duration of the hearings.

Monitoring media coverage of parliamentary debate: One intern who will be engaged in monitoring the media coverage of the debate in parliamentary bodies.

It is desirable that the candidates for monitoring the media are fluent in Macedonian and Albanian languages.

The monitoring will include 10 media, of which 6 in Macedonian and 4 Albanian language.The call will be open for 10 days from its publication. Applicants should send CV and cover letter to viktorija@idscs.org.mk. In case of great interest, IDSCS will interview the applicants selected in the shortlist.

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