Tirocinante Per Rilevazioni Botaniche/briologiche e

Bozen/Bolzano
internship

Institute for Alpine Environment

BMS is an ongoing survey of biodiversity that serves as basic research, but it is also intended to provide a scientific base for political decisions concerning spatial planning, agriculture, and nature conservation. BMS surveys animal and plant groups that react sensitively to climate and/or land-use changes, at habitat and landscape level. These surveys occur in 320 terrestrial and more than 100 aquatic sites distributed over the entire province of South Tyrol (7400 km²), including a large share of the diversity of habitats in the region. For details please consult our webpage biodiversity.eurac.edu

**Tasks**:

- Support in botanical surveys and habitat surveys for the season 2025 within the monitoring standard program and within special projects of the Biodiversity Monitoring
- Support of field work for other taxonomical groups, e.g. mounting bat loggers, installing pitfall traps
- Support in digitalization and management of botanical and habitat field data

**Requirements**:

- Bachelor/master’s degree in biology or Environmental Sciences or similar (master’s degree obtained not more than one year ago)
- Willingness to work in alpine areas
- Availability to work flexible hours when field work requires it
- Good knowledge of inner-Alpine flora and vegetation
- Good knowledge in geographical information systems (Arc GIS/QGIS)
- Experiences in biodiversity monitoring programs is advantageous for plant species knowledge (e.g. Österreichisches Freilandbotanik-Zertifikat, Schweizer Feldbotanik-Zertifikat) are assessed positively
- Good English skills, additional skills in German and Italian are advantageous
- Good interpersonal and collaborative skills to integrate in a working group
- Efficient organization skills

We offer:

- Internship contract for 2 to 4 months (spring - autumn, 2025)
- Possibility to include the gained data into a master thesis
- State-of-the-art technical facilities (soft
- and hardware, communication tools)
- Opportunity to work in a young interdisciplinary team
- Attractive living and working conditions (Great Place to Work©)

How to apply:

- Company: Eurac Research- Location: Bozen/Bolzano
- Contact person: Poponessi Silvia
Phone number: + 39 0471 055 788