- Ecuador
- Galapagos
About Program
Interns play a crucial role in providing much needed help to the locals here on Isabela Island, Galapagos. As an IOI Island Development Intern, you’ll be working directly with local stakeholders and authorities to provide a meaningful hands-on contribution in improving local conditions for our host community every day.
As part of your internship you can learn with us, develop key professional skills, and help us implement sustainable development programs in one of the most unique places of the planet. We're always looking for talented, skilled interns to join our team here on Isabela. If you're passionate, articulate, quick, driven, enthusiastic, and want to make a real difference in an innovative and flexible environment, why not join us on our mission?
Our impactful internships are perfect for you to develop key professional and personal skills, interact with local institutions and get first-hand experience in the sustainability field. The perfect combo!
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Impact
Sustainability
Our Net-Zero 2025 Strategy extends our current 2021 carbon-neutral initiative which inset all of our Scope 1 (direct) and 2 (indirect) emissions, and offset all our Scope 3 emissions. Scope 3 emissions “are the result of activities from assets not owned or controlled by the reporting organization, but that the organization indirectly impacts in its value chain” (EPA 2022).
IOI’s programmatic on-site emissions, Scopes 1 and 2, were inset through our own conservation efforts. Our Scope 3 emissions, mostly created by travel to our faculty-led study abroad programs and volunteering opportunities, will be mitigated through collaboration with external providers.
Ethical Impact
To provide international education programs that support the education, conservation, and social development of isolated communities by assisting local institutions in sustainably handling the human-environmental intersection.
What We Do
We strive to help establish ecological sustainability and social stability in our host communities by applying thoughtful assistance and expertise to local needs – financed by educational travel programs.
How We Do It
1. We offer volunteer opportunities in conservation, education, and social development, that provide our participants with life changing experiences, and our local partners with funding, expertise, and human power on site.
2. We offer study abroad programs in which students spend up to three months studying the local environment and learning the local culture.
3. We develop and implement outreach projects with local institutions that address pressing conservation, education, and social development needs via fundraising and grants.
Program Highlights
- Make a difference in the lives of local people with a unique culture
- Join an effort to increase social development in the Galapagos
- Strengthen your community development skills
- Experience personal growth and develop global awareness
- Enhance your Spanish competency
