Communication trainee for innovation community (32 hours)

Are you a proactive college communications student? Do you enjoy filling and maintaining our website and social media with creative content? Do you not turn your hand to composing a packed newsletter or organizing an event and are you looking for a versatile, instructive and interesting internship as of September 2025? Then we have a great opportunity for you!

About MindLabs 
At MindLabs, you'll work with companies, researchers, and students on smart technologies and AI innovations. Our building is a hub of creativity and collaboration, where your contribution makes a real difference.

This is what we look for in you

  • You are an organizational talent with an eye for detail.
  • You are communicatively strong, customer-oriented and enjoy working with digital tools such as Hubspot, Outlook and Canva.
  • You like variety, work in a structured way and stay calm under pressure.
  • Proactive, flexible (...and stress resistant) that's you.
  • English? Reading and writing should come fairly easily to you, we work in an international environment.

What will you do?

As a communications intern, you will help the organization perform communication tasks such as:

Maintaining MindLabs' social media channels  
- You provide texts that suit the medium in question 
- You take care of photos that suit the medium in question 
- You create and maintain a content calendar 
- You keep track of Analytics and report on the results 

Maintaining the Mindlabs website (Typo3) 
- You place texts 
- You select and place photos 
- You add events to the calendar 

(Collaborative) organisation of events 
- You take care of the invitation process (texts, layout, sending, processing, response) 
- You select and take care of the location (hiring props, furnishing, catering) 
- You supervise the audiovisual set-up 
- You accompany speakers 
- You prepare presentations, videos, etc. as necessary 

Managing/photography and maintaining the photo archive 
- You instruct the photographer or take pictures yourself 
- You maintain the photo archive (including quit claims) 

Helping to provide text articles 
- You take care of texts and photography for presentation materials 
- You take care of texts and photography for newsletters 

Newsletters and promotional materials
- You take care of the layout of newsletters in Mailchimp 
- You instruct a DTP person where necessary 
- You send out newsletters 
- You keep the mailing list up to date 
- You keep track of the response and Analytics 

If you come to MindLabs for an internship, you can count on the following: 

  • An open and safe working atmosphere; 
  • Pleasant and helpful colleagues; 
  • Sound supervision by professionals in the field of communication and event organisation; 
  • Plenty of opportunities to learn and showcase your talents; 
  • A great opportunity to be part of a socially relevant initiative that is helping prepare society for the future;  
  • A beautiful working environment in the Spoorzone, directly opposite Tilburg Central Station; 
  • A monthly fee; 
  • 5 holiday days per internship period of 6 months, to be taken in consultation.  

Want more information or to contact us right away? 

Would you like more information about this internship position? Do you have questions about the opportunities? Or did you know right away: you'd love to take on this challenge? Then send an email to info@mind-labs.eu  and upload your resume and a short (but powerful) motivation. And who knows, maybe you will soon be part of the MindLabs team!