Intern: Early-Warning System for Emerging Animal Farming

Eurogroup for Animals; Brussel; On-site; EUR 6,700 - 11,000; Part time

Job summary

Eurogroup for Animals is offering an internship to help prototype a monitoring and early warning system for emerging intensive farming across Europe, including novel species. This role combines data science, public-interest technology, and animal welfare in a project with real-world impact.

You will map information sources, prototype the system, evaluate approaches like web scraping and NLP, work with consultants to build the backend, and develop alerts workflows to inform member organisations

Qualifications

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with Python or another programming language commonly used for data collection and analysis.
• Familiarity with web scraping, APIs, data extraction, or automated monitoring tools.
• Ability to work independently, manage a research project, and communicate findings clearly.

Responsibilities

• Map and assess potential information sources that could signal the development of new intensive farming projects.
• Design and prototype an early warning and monitoring system, building on lessons learned from EfA’s previous prototype.
• Evaluate different technical approaches, including web scraping, natural language processing, keyword-based monitoring, and AI-assisted document classification.
• Work with consultants to design, develop and launch the back-end monitoring system underpinning the early warning system.
• Develop methods to assess the relevance and reliability of detected signals.
• Identify the information needs of EfA members and the wider animal protection movement, and design an alert-sharing model that defines what information should be shared, with whom, through which channels and at what stage of verification.
• Develop and test workflows for validating, prioritising and disseminating alerts, including a proposed alert format, confidence/relevance criteria, roles and responsibilities, and recommendations for implementation.
• Document the system architecture, methodology, and recommendations for future development.

Skills

Analytical skills

Python

Web scraping

APIs

Data extraction

Independent work

Project management

Communication

Job description

Eurogroup for Animals is offering an internship to help prototype a monitoring and early warning system for emerging intensive farming across Europe, including novel species. This role combines data science, public-interest technology, and animal welfare in a project with real-world impact.

You will map information sources, prototype the system, evaluate approaches like web scraping and NLP, work with consultants to build the backend, and develop alerts workflows to inform member organisations