Batteries & Investments Policy Intern

🫵 Role: Batteries and investments Policy Intern

📍 Location: Brussels (Ixelles)

📅 Deadline for applications: 30/06/2026, at midnight

Job Description

Do you want to help drive the transition to electric vehicles, supporting battery and clean tech manufacturing in Europe? Do you want to boost investments in a truly sustainable and just industrial transformation?

Transport & Environment (T&E), Europe's leading clean transport think tank and campaign group, is looking to strengthen its battery supply chains and investments team. As T&E’s batteries and investments intern, you will support policy strategies to secure circular, resilient and responsible battery value chains, and related cleantech investments, in Europe. 

Your responsibilities:

• Providing research and analysis for the team, both on request and for longer-term projects on the topics of battery supply chains, minerals, circularity and cleantech investments

• Attend events and meetings with stakeholders, reporting back to the team when relevant

• Analyzing amendments and policy proposals put forward by different EU institutions, member states and stakeholders in order to develop arguments to steer these closer towards T&E’s position

• Monitoring and updating the team on any recent developments in the batteries and raw materials industry and in the cleantech investments space

• Supporting coalition building with other NGOs and think tanks

• Drafting concise and informative briefings and other communication material 

• Helping to organize events (online and in person)

• Supporting with grant reporting related to batteries, raw materials and investments

Your profile

Ideally, you have some knowledge of EU policy-making, and the batteries and/or raw materials space, cleantech investments as well as a general interest in climate and environmental policy. Good interpersonal skills are essential, as well as a great level in English. Candidates should be able to work autonomously and collaboratively.

Practical information

This position is a full-time role based in Brussels in a hybrid setting (3 days of homeworking per week).

The contract will be one year from 1 September 2026, although the start date is subject to discussion. The internship is paid according to the Belgian legal framework of “Convention d’Immersion Professionnelle” (remunerated with €1500 gross a month). T&E is an equal opportunities employer.

The deadline for applications is 30/06/2026, at midnight. Interviews will take place in the following two weeks.  The letter of motivation and completed application form should explain the motivation and commitment to work with Transport & Environment aims, and also highlight examples from your previous work or studies that show us that you have the skills and competencies outlined above.

We thank all candidates for their interest; however, we are only able to contact those who have been shortlisted. Only applicants with the existing right to work within the EU will be considered.

About Us

Transport & Environment is Europe’s leading clean transport think tank and campaign group. We combine the power of robust evidence and a deep understanding of the transport sector with compelling communications and impactful advocacy. T&E will commit to your professional development and invest in training from your first day with the organization. Our people work across Europe: we have offices in Brussels, Rome, Paris, Berlin, Madrid, Warsaw, London and Singapore.

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