Qualifications:

• Applicants should have completed at least three years of full-time studies at university level in physics, related natural science disciplines or computing by the summer of 2025. Please be aware that the large majority of projects we offer are for physics students!
• The main target audiences are students who are at the following two stages by summer 2025:
  - They are about to obtain their Bachelor's degree.
  - They hold a Bachelor's degree and are enrolled in a Master's programme.
• Applicants who already obtained a Master's degree or will have obtained it by summer 2025 cannot be accepted.
• Applicants should not have previously been at DESY as a summer student.
• Please take note that due to regulations for paid internships in Germany, we can only accept students who are enrolled at their university for the whole period of the Summer Student Programme. Unfortunately, we cannot make exceptions to this rule since this is a necessary criteria due to German employment law.

 

DESY has suspended all participation of Russian and Belarusian institutes in its scientific projects. Consequently, no applications from students enrolled at Russian or Belarussian universities are accepted regardless of their citizenship.

Please take note that all applicants should have a good working knowledge of English and some basic computing skills. The students are expected to participate during the full period of the 2025 programme, from July 22 until September 11.

Certificate: At the end of the programme we will issue to the successful participants a certificate stating that the performed work is equivalent to 10 ECTS points.