Your Internship Experience
You’ll dive into reef restoration work and will have the best time doing it. A BRANCH internship is anything but boring. You get to work with an international team and experience the beauty of Curaçao while helping our reefs and engaging the community. Not one day is the same, thus flexibility is a must.
Your Day-to-Day Tasks
Working with BRANCH is diverse. One moment you are writing a newsletter and crafting a social media post, the next you are creating a coral nursery. You will be doing hands-on reef work: gathering supplies, building nurseries, cleaning them, outplaning coral fragments and tracing their growth, actively learning about coral restoration techniques.
Internship essentials
While being mad about corals helps, there are a few other prerequisites to becoming an intern at BRANCH.
A valid driver’s license
To get around Curaçao a car is indispensable.
Scuba certification
+ buoyancy mastery
+ recent health check
(can be obtained on Curaçao)
A passion for marine life & reef conservation
This is a natural prerequisite for interning with us.
“Branch is a small but highly dedicated team. During my internship, I not only gained valuable practical experience but also truly felt part of the organisation and its mission for nature. It was an inspiring and educational time, thank you.”
Lisa Gerats | Marine Biology Intern
“My time at BRANCH was precious and inspiring. I wish I could have spend more time on the island with the team and also more time under water. I would go back right now if I could.”
Ines Zimmermann | Marketing Intern
“I did a nine-week internship at BRANCH Coral Foundation. I gained a lot of knowledge and experience in coral restoration and also acquired significant diving experience. I was also well supported by Max in completing my personal assignments.”
Storm Henkus | Applied Biology Intern
Our interns
Meet our current (and past) interns
Oscar van Polen
Ines Zimmermann
Agathe Moreau
Lisa Gerats
Storm Henkus
Naomi Hornick
Sam Pronk
Anne Pronk
Ready to join us?
You want to be part of the diverse and international coral restoration team of BRANCH. Then contact us now!
