Do your internship at Kulttuurikeskus Ninho
Develop a more diverse children’s culture in Finland while preparing for your future career
The Ninho Internship Program offers internship opportunities for committed and interested students. This is an integral component of our multicultural association’s goals, and provides concrete benefits to our projects: Kolibrí Festivaali, Lukupesä reading nest program, PICNIC family encounters among others.
Students doing an internship are actively involved in their assigned project or team and play an important role in some of the day-to-day operations of the association while achieving their internship learning objectives.
Our internship opportunities are available for individuals from diverse nations, geography, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, religion, ability, spirituality, age, experiences, viewpoints, disciplines, etc.
Get to know Ninho’s mission and values
Kulttuurikeskus Ninho ry (Ninho) has been working since 2016 to develop a more multicultural and plurilingual children’s culture in Finland. Our activities are recognized as opportunities for learning, togetherness and dialogue, supporting plurilingual families and immigrants in Finland who enjoy spending high-quality time together, learning about and experiencing different cultures.
Ninho’s activities are based on global education and active learning, through multidisciplinary artistic expressions celebrating diversity. We embrace what makes us different, learning from one another and appreciating the beauty of building something new together.
The Ninho Internship Program
Ninho offers an intercultural and multilingual team environment, mentorship, and a wide array of learning opportunities for students interested in the non-profit sector.
Particularly, we offer the opportunity to learn and be active doing work that supports the creative expression, communication and participation of various immigrant and multicultural communities in the children’s culture sector.
Duration and location of the internship:
Our typical internship lasts 3 months, full or part-time (50% or 100% dedication). We can consider short-term full-time internships (5ECTS European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System). It is possible to extend an existing internship if the intern, their program, or supervisors agree and if it fits the schedule and resources of our association. Team projects are a possibility, depending on our needs and resources.
- Internships can be hybrid or in-person. In some special tasks, the internship could be completed exclusively online. This will be decided on a case-by-case basis.
- Please note we provide internship certificates, however, for the time being, Ninho can only offer unpaid internship opportunities.
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Ninho is the place for you if you are interested in:
- Learning about and experiencing the agency of immigrants in Finland, especially the Ibero-American Community.
- Learning about educational, cultural and communication processes.
- Honing language skills, especially Spanish and Portuguese.
- Supporting togetherness, wellbeing and dialogue processes of plurilingual families.
- Promoting minority heritage languages, children’s literature and reading mediation.
- Learning about the artistic, scientific and creative talents of people from diverse backgrounds and abilities.
- Diversifying the children’s culture sector.
Together we can tailor a suitable learning journey, a way to provide you with the learning opportunities you need.
What kind of internship you can do at Ninho?
Production assistance
Help organize events with diverse audiences and actors. It’s a good opportunity for students interested in interpersonal relations, customer service, facilitation, cultural production, wellbeing processes, social work, design etc.
Special projects
For students who need support for ongoing specific projects in the form of desk research, and other information-seeking tasks, or support with other tasks compatible with the person’s desired learning outcome.
Translation and interpretation
We usually translate most of our communication materials into English, Spanish, Portuguese, Finnish and Swedish, to break down language barriers and enhance accessibility. We provide opportunities for those who want to hone their language skills.
Communication
Run strategies, social media campaigns, create written and audiovisual content, and communicate with our audiences to get more visibility of our projects and events, and spread out our mission.
Project management
Conduct projects, and maybe even coordinate a small team of volunteers in an area of their expertise. We are open for proposals to work with communities, so if you have an idea, contact us!
Get to know our projects and programs
Ninho’s biggest project is Kolibrí Festivaali, a unique multicultural, free and open art festival for children and their families. During 13 editions, we’ve reached more than 20 000 attendees and more than 30 communities.
But Kolibrí is not our only project! Work with communities at PICNIC, develop reading mediation at Lukupesä, connect with communities at KABOOKS! and much more!
Partner Universities and schools
Some testimonials from other interns at Ninho
Leo Spano, student from Diak
“How wonderful it has been to work with you on such a valuable mission you have undertaken!
It was a privilege and an honor to support you in this great project. Thank you for teaching me so much! More than what I learned, you inspired me to seek out a project that gives as much as this one!”
Patricia Zamudio, student from Helsinki Business College
“My experience doing my internship at Kulttuurikeskus Ninho ry has been extremely enriching and satisfying. I have had the opportunity to perform key tasks in financial administration. These activities have allowed me to gain a deep understanding of financial processes in the context of a non-profit organization.
The team has been incredible, and their support has been fundamental to the success of my internship. I greatly value this experience for the knowledge I have gained and the people I have met. Thank you for the opportunity”.