The Summer Student Programme starts 22 July and lasts seven weeks until 11 September 2025. These start and end dates are fixed, and participation over a different time period is not possible.

We expect the summer students to stay for the whole period of time. The supervisors organise the summer student projects such that they match the duration of seven weeks.
However, in case of strong reasons for needing to leave DESY before the end of the programme dates, there might be exceptions of up to a maxiumum of one week. These should ideally be communicated before acceptance of a position, so that the shorter stay can be discussed with the project supervisors, to see if it is acceptable.

Prolongations of work at DESY under the conditions of the Summer Student programme are not possible. However, if you realise during your stay that you would like to continue working at DESY, please contact your supervisor or the group leader. They will be able to tell you what other opportunities might be available.

You have to work 39 hours per week.

28,50 Euro per calendar day will be paid (in the period 22 July - 11 September, i.e. 52 days in total => 1482€ in 3 installments)

No, accomodation in the DESY Hostel will be provided free of charge for you. If you choose to take alternative accomodation options, you must pay for any costs yourself.

The DESY gate keepers can help you: During opening hours of the hostel service they will guide you to the hostel office; any other time of the day or night they will hand you the keys.

The rooms are single rooms with private bathrooms. The rooms are furnished. You will find a bed (with blankets, bedsheets, towels), a desk, chair.

What facilities are there?

Common kitchen areas are available for preparing food, as are facilities for washing and ironing clothes.

The DESY Hostel is meant for guests of DESY who come for short periods of work within DESY groups or at the DESY facilities and for meetings and conferences.
The DESY Hostel cannot house family or friends of guests or students. It is meant solely for people working at DESY.

Please find a list of hotels in the vicinity of DESY here.

http://generatorhostels.com/de/reiseziel/hamburg/

There is an extensive network of public transport in the city of Hamburg and surrounding area (S-Bahn and U-Bahn trains, buses, and also ferries crossing the Elbe river). If you plan to use it regularly, the easiest way is to get a "Deutschlandticket" which allows you not only unlimited use of the public transport in Hamburg, but also in all of Germany. It includes the public transport in other cities and towns as well as regional trains (all trains except InterCity [IC], EuroCity [EC] or InterCity-Express [ICE]) which means you can also use it for a weekend trip for instance. And all that is offered for 58 € per month.

Unfortunately, it is only available as a subscription. While one can choose the start date in a flexible manner (one can book it for a fraction of a calender month at the start), all following months are always whole calender months. So be careful that you cancel the subscription in time (has to be done until the 10th of the month, i.e., ~3 weeks before the end of the month). One option would be to have 22nd July as a start date and cancel the subscription before 10 of August. (Ticket would be valid until the end of August and you would only have to find a different solution for the remaining time in September). This way you have to pay ~1.5 months (instead of 2.5 if you cancel it at a later time).

It is available as an electronic ticket for your mobile phone through the HVV switch app (you should not order the chip card version). Payment options include direct bank withdrawal, direct debit/pre-authorised payment in case you have a European IBAN account, credit or debit cards, or Paypal. All further information can be found here.

Alternative options for public transport within Hamburg are single trip tickets (3.90 €), 9am daily tickets (valid for any number of trips during the day between 9am and 6am the next day: 7.80 €), 9am group tickets (valid for up to 5 persons: 15.60€) or weekly tickets (38 € per week - NB that for any time longer than a week a Deutschlandticket becomes more economical).
Please be aware that it is no longer possible to buy tickets on the buses or trains in Hamburg. You have to use either one of the ticket vending machines (at all S/U-bahn stations and larger bus stops) or an app like the HVV app (Android, iOS). It is anyway recommended to dowload the app if you will make use of public transport, as it provides connection options and real-time schedule information.