Summer Research Program for international students from partner universities

Are you conducting research in engineering or natural sciences at KIT? Are you pursuing a PhD or working as a scientist here? Would you like to host an intern from the USA, Australia or Canada to support your experimental work?

Consider offering a research internship through the IMPULSE program!

Program Overview

IMPULSE is KIT’s own Summer Research Program, including a scholarship and a socially engaging support program. It’s specifically designed for Bachelor’s and Master’s students from the University of Waterloo (Canada), Queensland University of Technology (Australia) and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (USA), and is coordinated by the International Students Office (IStO) at KIT.

We foster bilateral mobility:
For each student from our partner institutions who conducts a research stay at KIT, that partner university reserves a rare tuition-free exchange spot for a KIT student.

Calender und Timeline
  • 3 to 4 months of research work from April to August
  • Call for project proposals: Share your research project with IStO at KIT by October each year for placements occurring the following year.
  • Select your candidate between January and February
What IMPULSE offers

IStO (International Affairs) takes care about everything not directly related to the research project: Pre-arrival session (for example visa info), welcome event, social activities, scholarship payment, accommodation, student enrollment at KIT, Network event, farewell....

Scholarship

Monthly scholarship to cover accommodation and living expenses, funded by external sponsors of IMPULSE
Accommodation IStO arranges suitable housing for the international students
Mentoring & Integration IStO assists with travel preparations and assigns a student tutor to organize social activities like excusions, museum visits, group outings, and social evenings.
Insurances Students are enrolled as research students at KIT and therefore covered by Studierendenwerk: Liability insurance and Statutory accident insurance (study related activities), Recreational accident insurance (private activities). Students must provide adequate health insurance for enrollment.
IMPULSE Get together

Networking event Ende of June: IMPULSE sponsors, reasearch interns, and supervisors come together for the IMPULSE Get together.  
IMPULSE is generously funded by

 

 

If you have any questions or suggestions, please feel free to reach out to:

Sarah Arnoldi
International Affairs / International Students Office (IStO)