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ECCHR Scholarship for the Critical Legal Training with the Business and Human Rights Team

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ECCHR Scholarship for the Critical Legal Training with the Business and Human Rights Team

Programme details

The European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) is offering a scholarship for its 2027/28 Critical Legal Training with the Business and Human Rights team in Berlin, Germany. The opportunity enables emerging human rights practitioners to gain practical experience in corporate accountability, strategic litigation and human rights advocacy.

ECCHR’s Critical Legal Training combines hands-on legal work with collaborative learning. The selected participant will join the Business and Human Rights team, working alongside experienced colleagues on legal interventions that challenge unequal economic, social and political power relations and seek accountability for corporate human rights violations.

Participants contribute to legal and factual research, prepare legal and policy briefs, draft memoranda and submissions, and support communication with partners and stakeholders. They also assist with project activities, including organising events and participating in internal meetings. The team’s work seeks to strengthen the representation of affected workers, marginalised communities and individuals, particularly those from the Global South, in European legal and policy debates.

Eligibility requirements

  • Young professionals who graduated within the previous two years, with flexibility based on individual circumstances, career paths and lived experience
  • Applicants in an advanced stage of their education or at the beginning of a human rights career
  • Personal, legal and/or financial circumstances that would make participation in an unpaid traineeship impossible

Benefits

  • Gross monthly wage of €1,800, with estimated net earnings of €1,300–€1,400 after deductions
  • Return travel costs from the participant's place of residence to Berlin covered up to €1,500
  • Reimbursement of visa fees and costs connected to the visa application process, including travel to an embassy

Important dates

  1. Scholarship applications open
  2. Earliest scheduled traineeship start
  3. Latest normally scheduled traineeship start

Required documents

  1. CV

    Upload as a PDF in English, maximum two pages. ECCHR welcomes experience beyond formal employment and education, including community work, activism and self-organising

Essay questions

4 questions

  • Question 1 of 4

    RELEVANT EXPERIENCE in the field of Business and Human Rights / Climate Justice (max. 500 characters).

  • Question 2 of 4

    Please explain why you want to join the Critical Legal Training at ECCHR.

  • Question 3 of 4

    Please explain how this reflects your situation, i.e. why you are applying to the ECCHR scholarship.

  • Question 4 of 4

    Please give a critical comment on the potential and limitations of strategic litigation, analyzing ECCHR´s cases in the program area you are applying for, as it is presented on our website.

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