Description:

ISTA Summer Fellowship 2025 in Austria is offered to international students who want to enhance their scientific research abilities in state-of-the-art multidisciplinary research institute. Every summer, students are given a chance to work for 2-3 months under the guidance of researchers at ISTA on their research projects. This IST summer internship is offered to bachelor’s and master’s students who are from various disciplines of natural sciences, physics, chemistry, mathematics, computer sciences and any relevant interdisciplinary areas.

Course Level: Fully funded Internship

Grants: Fellows will get financial and administrative support from OeAD and ISTA’s Graduate School.

· Students will get a monthly fellowship of 1.150 Euros to cover basic living expenses.

· All students will get a travel allowance to cover the costs of round-trip air tickets.

· Health insurance will be included for the fellowship duration.

· Students will be provided with accommodation on campus or in Vienna.

Eligibility criteria: Candidates must be enrolled in bachelor’s or master’s degree.

· Recent graduates can also apply.

· Bachelor’s student must have completed at least 2 years of their study program while applying.

· Applicants can apply for PhD program but will be selected for only one fellowship program.

· Russian citizens are ineligible to apply.

· Students who are currently doing PhD or are selected for a PhD program cannot apply for this fellowship.

· Students who have already applied to the ISTA PhD program are ineligible to apply.

· Applications forms or recommendation letters submitted after the deadline will not be accepted.

How to apply: First register yourself by clicking “I need to register”.

· Enter your details including email address and password.

· Click the link sent to you in the email to verify your online account.

· Fill in your personal data.

· Upload your CV according to the template provided.

· Enter your current or most recent studies’ information.

· Upload your transcript or grading record.

· Enter the information about your previous education/degrees.

· Mention your scientific background such as internship or laboratory experience.

· Mention if you have any additional skills.

· Select the names of professors’ group that you would like to work in.

· Answer the additional information asked.

· Enter the name and email address of referee.

· Use the “contact referee” option in the form to send request to the referee for letter of recommendation.

· Complete all the required sections of application form.

· You can save your progress and continue to complete your form later but this can only be done before the deadline.

· Recheck all the details that you have mentioned.

· Submit your application.

· You will receive a confirmation email.

Required documents: CV

· Statement of purpose.

· English proficiency level test scores (optional).

· Certificates or documents relevant to the application.

· Passport

· University transcripts/diplomas/grade records.

· 2 reference letters.

Deadline: 5th February 2025

Official Website: https://phd.pages.ist.ac.at/isternship/

Online Apply: https://apply.ista.ac.at/users/login