Overview

RISE Germany offers summer research internships in Germany for undergraduate students from North America, Great Britain and Ireland. In their internships, students are carefully matched with doctoral students and researchers (only from universities of applied sciences – UAS) – whom they assist and who serve as their mentors. Interns receive a monthly stipend to cover everyday costs. About 300 scholarships are available each year.

RISE Germany internships were first offered in 2005 to applicants from the United States and Canada, with the program extended to the United Kingdom in 2009 and Ireland in 2018. The objective of the program remains to promote student exchange to Germany in the fields of natural science, engineering and life sciences, and to motivate undergraduate students to learn more about Germany’s research landscape and study opportunities.

Eligibility

Applicants must be:

• Currently enrolled at a university/college in the United States, Canada, the UK or Ireland as an undergraduate student in the field of biology, chemistry, computer science, physics, earth sciences, or engineering (or a closely related field)
• An undergraduate who will have completed at least 2 years of a degree program by the time of the internship placement
• Able to prove that you will maintain undergraduate status after the internship has taken place

Award

Students will receive:

• A monthly scholarship of 934 Euros per month
• Health, accident, and personal liability insurance
• Funding to cover international travel costs and travel to the three-day RISE Germany meeting in Heidelberg at the beginning of July

Application Status

Closed (will open in Fall 2024)

National Deadline

TBA

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