CIVICA Ambassadors

• student or (post)doctoral researcher of any age, study programme and nationality enrolled full-time at one of the ten CIVICA universities at least until the end of the spring semester 2025
• active in your community
• passionate about the value of collaboration across borders
• excited about the CIVICA alliance and its opportunities 

• promote CIVICA’s mission, opportunities and events on your campus and beyond
• act as a first point of contact for CIVICA for your peers and an informal voice of the alliance (e.g. provide testimonials)
• propose bottom-up projects or participate in existing ones
• participate in regular online meetings with the other Ambassadors and with the CIVICA representatives
• participate in an in-person workshop with all Ambassadors hosted by one of our CIVICA partners in Europe
• participate in civic engagement and dissemination activities and occasionally participate in CIVICA’s work package meetings to bring your perspective
• help with the organisation of other CIVICA events and initiatives

Expected time commitment: max. 15h/month

Your profile and contact information will be displayed on a dedicated section of the CIVICA website.

CIVICA Ambassadors range from undergraduate students to postdoctoral researchers, and represent each university in the alliance. Their role is to promote interaction and exchange within the alliance's communities, and be a first point of contact to CIVICA for their peers. The Ambassadors network actively shapes CIVICA by initiating bottom-up projects and participating in formal and informal alliance activities. The previous cohort was involved in the following CIVICA activities and offers:

• They unravelled the futurEU Competition for the publication of a visionary policy brief
• They supported the CIVICA for Ukraine project, and contributed to the "Plan of Reconstruction and European Integration of Ukraine" report
• They released the Report on the Future of Europe and worked on a common project to evaluate the performance of the European monetary union "Towards a More Optimal Eurozone" 
• They founded the Doctoral Research Groups, an initiative to connect PhDs and postdocs around research areas of interest
• They launched the Green CIVICA project
• They participated in Over to Europe – the podcast of the CIVICA community
• They participated in civic engagement activities, such as exchanges with high school students
• They supported the CIVICA European Weeks
• They launched and run the Instagram account civica.ambassadors
• They represented CIVICA in high-level events hosted by prestigious institutions in Europe, such as:
  • the European Student Assembly in Strasbourg 
  • the SMLH Centenary Event at the French Embassy in Rome
  • and international conferences, like VivaTech 2022 in Paris