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Internship opportunities
Look through our expanding list of host institutes that we work with — from leading global players to small start-ups. At that time, let us know which industrial sector appeals to you. We can then recommend a few companies that may interest you.
Participating companies (or our program) provide:
- travel costs for the intern
- compensation based on qualifications, experience, and length of stay
- housing or housing assistance
- health insurance arrangements
The MIT-Germany Program works with leading companies in all major industrial sectors. Many companies are members of the MIT-Germany Consortium, which cooperates beyond internship placement.
Global Engineering Internship Program (GEIP)
The DAAD RISE program offers summer internships in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Earth Sciences and Engineering. The working language is English, and students are mentored by doctoral students.
The DAAD RISE Pro program offers recent graduates, master and PhD students in Biology, Chemistry, Engineering, Geology and Physics the opportunity to gain professional experience while working at a German company for the summer. Stipends are provided.
Research institutes
If you are more inclined to pursue research opportunities instead of an internship in a corporate setting, check out the following outstanding German research institutions:
Max Planck Institutes
- Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
- Max Planck Institute for Astronomy
- Max Planck Institute for Bioinformatics
- Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
- Max Planck Institute for the Dynamics of Complex Systems
- Max Planck Institute for Mathematics
- Max Planck Institute for Solid State Physics
- Max Planck Institute for Physics
- Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics
International Max Planck Research School
Leibnitz Institute for Age Research
Universities
The MIT-Germany Program works closely with the following universities:
- Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen
- Technische Universität Darmstadt
- Technische Universität Karlsruhe
- Ludwigs Maximilian Universität München
- Technische Universität München
- Freie Universität Berlin (FU-BEST for academic semester or year)
- Freie Universität Berlin (summer courses)
Please contact the MIT-Germany Program to arrange for study abroad at one of these universities. Fees for studying at a German university are considerably lower than those incurred at MIT.
Materials Science and Engineering grad student Megan Brewster works with lasers to to understand how heat and electrons interact at Freie Universität Berlin in 2008.
Michael Blaisse, a Chemical Engineering and Chemistry student, works on adapting asymmetrically catalyzed reactions from batch or bench top chemistry to continuous synthesis methods at Bayer in Leverkusen. Blaisse also participated in MIT-Germany's German I course in Germany over IAP.
Civil and Environmental Engineering student Stella Schieffer at her 2008 internship with Wolff & Müller in Berlin.
