NMF Internship Programme

At the National Maritime Foundation (NMF), we strongly encourage applications for internships, from students, professionals, and the public at large, who are genuinely interested in exploring the various facets of the maritime domain and the policy issues relevant to India’s maritime interests.  Unlike other internships, each internship programme at the NMF incorporates within it, a high-quality teaching-capsule.

The topics covered in this teaching capsule include maritime facets of geopolitics and political  science; the maritime interests of India and those of other entities that operate within the  maritime reaches of the Indo-Pacific; the concept of holistic maritime security; maritime trade and  shipping, as also the ports that form the nodes of India’s maritime merchandise-trade; the  rationale underpinning India’s endeavours in the polar regions; the development and  contemporary application of public international maritime law (PIML), as also the challenges  being faced in terms of lawfare; countering maritime crime (including piracy); maritime ‘hard’  security, with particular regard to China and Pakistan; the marine and maritime environment including the military maritime environment; India’s ongoing transition to a ‘Blue Economy’; mitigation as well as adaptive strategies to tackle the maritime impacts of climate change; the  sustainable harvesting of marine resources; India’s maritime history, heritage, and maritime  identity, etc.

Through its internship programmes the NMF seeks to provide adequate opportunities for you to pursue meaningful research and delve into policy-related aspects of a number of disciplines within the social sciences, the life sciences, and the physical sciences.

The National Maritime Foundation (NMF) runs its much sought-after series of internship programmes two times a year, one in the spring and one in the autumn.