Global Minds Innovation Internship
Eight online weeks: complete the UNITAR AI for Social Impact course, submit an individual SDG challenge, and work with an international team on a live brief.
Full internship
20 Jul – 14 Sep 2026
99 seats remaining
Students earn credentials, submit an individual challenge, build with an international team, and present finalist work at the Global Expo.
Complete the UNITAR AI for Social Impact course before you move into project work.
Turn one SDG problem into a focused AI project and submit it for rubric review.
Spend four weeks with interns from different countries on one SDG-aligned brief.
Students learn the foundations, submit an individual SDG challenge, work in an international team, then publish and present.
Meet the cohort, set up your portal, and begin the UNITAR AI for Social Impact course.
Study responsible AI use, model limits, and the SDG problems behind the briefs.
Choose your AI-for-SDG challenge and turn it into a focused project plan.
Each track groups related UN Sustainable Development Goals and points teams toward a real local problem they can address with AI.
Inclusive learning, access to knowledge, and closing opportunity gaps with AI. Anchors: SDG 4, SDG 10.
Climate action, environment, biodiversity, and resilience. Anchors: SDG 13, SDG 14, SDG 15.
Decent work, entrepreneurship, innovation, and productivity. Anchors: SDG 8, SDG 9.
Transparency, access to justice, civic participation, and trust. Anchor: SDG 16.
Health, food security, social protection, and ending poverty. Anchors: SDG 1, SDG 2, SDG 3.
AI can help staff draft feedback and summaries. Ureka, UNITAR, mentors, judges, and approved reviewers decide certificates, finalists, prizes, and awards.
Each track ties to a UN Sustainable Development Goal and begins with a named community or institutional problem.
Role-based access and secure authentication protect participant data.
Complete AI Bridge with a UNITAR AI for Social Impact certificate, a Ureka virtual internship certificate, an individual challenge, and a team portfolio piece.
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Publish the team project, present to international judges, and compete for awards.
Build with peers who bring different local problems, assumptions, and experience.
Use AI on named SDG problems with human review and mentor feedback.
Join an international team, meet your mentor, and agree on the project brief.
Submit your individual challenge and draft the team solution concept.
Use mentor feedback and local research to sharpen the project.
Finish the solution concept, shape the short video story, and rehearse the pitch.
Publish your work, present to judges, and close the program with credentials and awards.
Clean water, affordable energy, and sustainable liveable cities. Anchors: SDG 6, SDG 7, SDG 11.
