About the Horizon Solutions Site
Horizon International Mission:
Horizon International is a not-for-profit organization based at Yale University. The organization works with numerous collaborators and cooperating entities to find and advance solutions. Horizon focuses on needs that it can most effectively address, prioritizing initiatives that are most pressing and that inform and inspire positive action. Quality, accuracy and thoroughness make results stand out as trusted coverage. This is made possible with the help of Horizon’s Scientific Review Board and Special Advisors.
Opportunity Details: Internships and Research Fellowships for summer 2010 or a minimum of a three month period which can commence at any time and be fulfilled over an extended time. The work can involve research, writing, organizing, and creative multimedia, among other possibilities.
Associates Program:
The Associates Program consists of interns, volunteers and research fellows who serve to improve conditions in the world while providing them a chance to advance their professional opportunities. Associates Program operates with the help of cooperating organizations.
The Associates' assignments are personalized to advance their professional abilities and enable them to more fully realize their own potential while realizing tangible results in their work to help in the world. Associates experience personal growth, satisfaction from the results of their work, and increased motivation to use their talents and abilities.
Many Horizon Associates have not only made possible sharing of knowledge of initiatives through the Horizon Solutions Site and other avenues, but also benefited from their accomplishments as Associates. For example, a Yale undergraduate who assisted with Horizon-Peru (now a formal non-profit entity in Peru) received a Marshall Fellowship, a young college graduate in Nigeria requested and received recommendations from Horizon based on his achievement as a volunteer for Horizon and received admission with scholarship to go on to complete a graduate degree from Brandeis in sustainable development. Another, an undergraduate from Peru, similarly received a Ford Foundation Fellowship and completed advanced degrees in the Netherlands. Barau Maan, of Assam, India, a current Horizon intern who started a Butterfly Network with Horizon’s assistance, a project for which Jim Miller of the American Museum of Natural History is an advisor, received a full scholarship to Oxford for this fall.
Brief Summary About Horizon International Programs:
The Horizon Solutions Site at http://www.solutions-site.org, a collaborative program with UNDP, UNEP, UNFPA, Unicef, the IDRC, Yale and Horizon's colleagues at Harvard, presents answers to problems in environment, health, population and development, in case-studies (peer-reviewed), articles and exhibits.
The Horizon Solutions Site for Kids of All Ages, http://www.solutions-site.org/kids is an interactive, multimedia feature of the Solutions Site.
Horizon is working to promote protection of coral reefs through its multimedia and multifaceted Magic Porthole™ program. The Web site is available at http://www.magicporthole.org.
Horizon produces internationally broadcast television programs. They are now available for viewing and downloading on the Web at http://www.horizoninternationaltv.org.
Current Priorities:
Among the specific subjects that are the current focus of Horizon International are Global Climate Change, oceans and coral reefs and the interconnected areas of “water, sanitation and the environment.” Horizon’s Chairman and President, Janine Selendy, is compiling and editing a book “Water and Sanitation-Related Diseases and the Environment: Challenges, Interventions and Preventive Measures,” to be published by Wiley in 2010 with an accompanying DVD and other material. Components of this project will be ongoing. For example, plans are underway for a joint UN-Horizon call for “water and sanitation” solutions.
Horizon-Peru is a organization founded by Horizon Associates in Peru who have worked on numerous case studies, conferences, training projects, and various projects involving high-school and university students and faculty, international organizations including WHO and UNDP, and community-based endeavors.
The Magic Porthole coral reef program The Magic Porthole takes you into the fascinating fragile world of coral reefs with multimedia and multifaceted experiences. You can explore virtual reefs with reef creatures as guides, enjoy playing games and winning prizes as you make discoveries about the lives of frogfish, cleaning gobies, turtles, seahorses, sharks, and many other creatures. Horizon is now taking orders for the first Magic Porthole™ offline feature, “First Collector’s Edition” playing cards, Versions 1 and 2, with photographic images of coral reef creatures that match those of the “Coral Reef Memory Game” on the Website where each card’s back has exciting details of the reef creatures’ lives and video images.
Who can serve as an Associate?
Associates must have a dedication to the objectives of Horizon.
Interns and Research Fellows:
Interns and Research Fellows based in international locations must have language fluency and understanding and sensitivity to the local cultures. Their efforts require a high level of expertise and ability, including background and an informed interest in one or more of the following fields: environment, population, sustainable development, public health, cultural anthropology, or human ecology. Strong communication and research skills and the ability to work collaboratively and independently are necessary.
They are asked to be as informed as possible about local problems for which solutions might be found on the Solutions Site or for which case studies are in preparation and to help make sure that those who can benefit are informed about solutions which might help meet their needs in whole or in part or might inspire their search for a answer to their own problems.
Additional responsibilities might include: research for preparation of case studies, articles, exhibits, Horizon special projects and conferences. Development of existing research into case studies might entail synthesizing existing research, doing further research, fact checking, and abstracting, helping others prepare case studies, and help to initiate projects based on examples on the Horizon Solutions Site.
Research Fellows might also have the responsibility to provide guidance for case study selection and preparation; to edit documents prepared for the Solutions Site and other publication by interns and volunteers prior to their submission to the project headquarters for review and further action; to develop relationships and coordinate joint efforts with NGOs and other entities within their region; to organize seminars and other activities in their region; to assist in bringing together content and participants for Conferences; and, to interact with regional fellows and other Horizon Associates throughout the world to continually broaden the positive impact of Horizon’s endeavors with its collaborators and other partners.
Volunteers come from a diverse set of cultures, histories and backgrounds. Volunteers include people of all ages, from elementary through graduate school to retired individuals. One of Horizon’s Volunteers, Adedoyin Onasanya, was named the UN Online Volunteer of the Year.
Contact: Janine Selendy by e-mail with your expression of interest, resume and references. Please indicate “Solutions Site Application” in the subject line. Address: jselendy@gmail.com.
NOTE:
Links with detailed information are available on the Horizon Solutions Site:
The categories are:
Agriculture, Air Pollution, Biodiversity, Desertification, Energy, the Environment, Global Climate Change, Human Rights, Industry, Population, Poverty, Public Health, Sustainable Development, Transportation, Waste Management, Water, Organizations and Foundations, Research and Information, Web Directories and other Media, and Horizon Solutions Site Collaborators
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