Viable Cities opens internships in climate communications
Sweden's Viable Cities seeks communications interns to help 29 cities navigate climate neutrality transitions. The work touches a persistent challenge: how to make systemic change legible and compelling to publics who must ultimately enact it.
Viable Cities, the Swedish innovation program coordinating climate neutrality missions across 29 municipalities, has opened applications for communications internships starting in fall or spring semesters. The position offers a window into how governance transformation gets narrated — and why that narrative work matters as much as policy design.
Interns will work across strategic planning, event coordination, web content, and social media for both internal and external audiences. The program explicitly seeks students with climate engagement who can write in both Swedish and English, reflecting the dual audience of local implementers and international governance networks. Vendela Karlsson, who interned in late 2025, noted the validation of working alongside experienced strategists on live projects rather than simulated exercises.
The structure is telling: internships include both daily team work and an individually designed project, adapted to the student’s educational focus. It’s a recognition that communications capacity — the ability to translate complex system transitions into actionable narratives — remains a bottleneck in climate governance. The program operates from KTH Campus in Stockholm with partial remote work, offers no salary, and accepts rolling applications.
Viable Cities positions itself as mission-driven rather than advocacy-oriented, a distinction that shapes how it frames urban climate work. For students interested in how governance innovations get communicated to the publics who must live them, it’s a practicum in making transformation tangible.