IAESTE Internships

Location

Switzerland

Internship type

ON-SITE

Reference number

CH-2025-000237

Students Requirements

General discipline

Computer Science / Informatics
Psychology

Completed Years of Study

3

Fields of Study

Data Science

Languages

English Good (B1, B2)

German Good (B1, B2)

Required Knowledge and Experience

-

Other Requirements

German language skills are of advantage, but not a must.

Work Details

Duration

43 - 52 Weeks

Within These Dates

01.06.2025 - 31.10.2026

Holidays

NONE

Work Environment

-

Gross pay

2300 CHF / month

Working Hours

41.0 per week / 8.2 per day

Living Lodging

Type of Accommoditation

Employer

Cost of lodging

810 CHF / month

Cost of living

1650 CHF / month

Work Offered

Additional Info

Any student with Non-EU/EFTA nationality needs an official letter from their university, confirming that the internship is compulsory (required for visa/work permit).

Work description

The Building Integration Group in Empa's Laboratory for Building Energy Materials and Components strives to create novel solutions for a more sustainable built environment, which is the largest emitter of greenhouse gases globally. We are working, amongst other topics, on materials for energy efficiency, on the utilisation of more readily available and sustainable raw materials and on the mitigation and reversal of greenhouse gas emissions. With a young, driven and solution-oriented team, we do so both on the level of basic research and in close collaboration with industry.We offer an internship position for a project on the social acceptance of a new carbon dioxide removal process based on the pyrolysis of synthetic methane to create solid carbon. This approach is currently developed at Empa and other research institutes. It is part of Empa's Mining the Atmosphere initiative and targets the removal of CO2 from the atmosphere in order to mitigate climate change. The goal of the project is to assess different variants of this new carbon dioxide removal approach from a societal perspective in order to understand which has a higher acceptance and hence a stronger support from society, and what could be potential points of resistance to its implementation, also comparing it to other solutions such as biochar or direct air capture and storage. The acceptance will be assessed via online surveys, which the intern will conduct and analyse, as well as through stakeholder interviews for which the intern will provide support. Based on the findings of these surveys, the intern will assist in building a model for the social acceptance of different negative emissions technologies as well as their technical, economic and life cycle characteristics.Overview on Empa's Mining the Atmosphere initiative: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2024.107968

Deadline

07.05.2025