Human Rights, Social Justice, and Intercultural Learning Internship
Pasantía en Derechos Humanos, Justicia Social e Interculturalidad
What is the Human Rights, Social Justice, and Intercultural Learning Internship?
It is an eleven-week, home-based international learning experience that invites students to study, support, and collaborate with the work of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo (Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo), an Argentine human rights organization which is internationally recognized for its struggle to locate and restore the identity of grandchildren who were stolen and illegally adopted during the country’s last civicmilitary dictatorship.
The program integrates service-learning, participation in a human rights organization, and social research tools. Through hands-on activities, discussion sessions, and critical reflection, participants strengthen their professional training while deepening their knowledge of memory, identity, human rights, social justice, and interculturality.
What do students do?
Students work with information and documents that are part of the Memory Archive of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo. Activities include reviewing and systematizing legal documents in collaboration with the organization’s legal team, as well as working with images from its image archive. These tasks, which represent a concrete and highly valuable contribution to the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, can be completed virtually for those outside Argentina, or in person in Buenos Aires work.
A pedagogical model based on memory and epistemic justice
The internship’s pedagogical model integrates service-learning, social research, the pedagogy of memory, interculturality, and epistemic justice. Students do not approach the history of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo as isolated course content, but rather as a living experience that enables them to understand the relationships among memory, identity, human rights, and social justice.
The pedagogy of memory promotes critical reflection on Argentina’s recent past and its presence in contemporary debates. At the same time, the epistemic justice perspective recognizes the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo and other human rights organizations as producers of fundamental knowledge built from their own experiences, struggles, archives, and collective practices.
Through this lens, interns will bring Argentine history together with Latin American social movements, the contemporary global human rights agenda, and their own cultural contexts.
The experience culminates in a final presentation where students share their work, learnings, and reflections in their own creative projects—such as poems, paintings, and drawings—which are later compiled into a collective publication.
Intercultural Learning Initiative
As part of the internship, students participate in an intercultural learning space designed to enrich their formative experience and promote a critical understanding of cultural diversity.
The initiative is implemented through synchronous workshops and interactive online activities that foster exchange, participation, and collective reflection. Drawing from diverse situations, experiences, and perspectives, the workshops address topics related to culture and identity, intercultural dialogue, global citizenship, human rights, and social justice.
The program invites participants to recognize and examine their own assumptions, bring different cultural contexts into discussion, and develop skills to engage critically, respectfully, and actively in diverse settings. In this way, intercultural learning is presented not merely as theoretical content, but as a practice built through connecting, listening, and sharing reflections.
Those students who complete the internship will receive the Intercultural Learning Certificate (Certificado de Aprendizaje Intercultural) from ADELA Study Abroad.
Dates – Second Semester 2026
Virtual Internship – (Eleven weeks)
Hybrid modality: Synchronous and asynchronous classes.
- Start Date: September 4th
- End Date: November 20th.
Course fees
LATAM: Enrollment: 50 USD – Course: 150 USD – Total cost: 200 USD
Early enrollment until August 15: Enrollment 50 USD + 2 installments of 60 USD Total cost: 220USD
OTHER REGIONS: Enrollment: 50 USD – Course: 300USD – Total cost: 350 USD
Early enrollment until August 15: Enrollment 50 USD + 2 installments of 175 USD – Total cost: 400 USD
ARGENTINA: Enrollment: $70,000 ARS – Course: $150,000 ARS – Total cost: $220,000 ARS
Early enrollment until August 15: Enrollment $70,000 ARS + 2 installments of $90,000 ARS
Contact us
Griset Etchamendi
adelastudyabroad@flacso.org.ar