Internship
The 15 credits internship offers you the opportunity to develop academic skills in a different working environment. The type and content of this internship will depend on your background and ambitions. The subject and place of the internship needs be chosen in close cooperation with a TU/e internship supervisor.
Generally speaking, students must carry out the internship in a company, university or research institute. The internship needs to take place in an international environment, either abroad or in the Netherlands. If you choose to do the internship in the Netherlands, you must carry out at least 15 credits of the graduation research in an international environment.
Prerequisites and enrollment
You may start your internship when:
- The summaries of two ‘competence development interviews' have been submitted to the Fusion secretariat.
- Your study program must have been approved by the Examination Committee (Study Program Committee).
Enrollment takes place via the NF Internship Registration form and OSIRIS.
To do
Please check the study guide and consult the Regulations of the Examination Committee for more information regarding the organization of the internship and follow all steps carefully.
Before starting your internship, you must fill in the registration form internship contract. Do not sign your contract until it has been checked.
- If you use a standard TU/e agreement (e.g. the work place agreement), CSA AP will have your contract signed by the managing director. (So, your responsible Applied Physics supervisor should not sign contracts)
- If you use a non-standard TU/e agreement (e.g. research institute, company or university contract) or if modifications have been made to the standard agreement, CSA AP will forward your contract to the education lawyers for a legal check. Then, the education lawyer will make sure you receive the final version of your contract that you can sign.
Please be aware that the process of reviewing, changing and signing a contract can easily take one month. Therefore, fill in the form as soon as possible.
Finalizing the internship
After the internship is finished, you have to hand in your internship report at the organization/company and your responsible Fusion supervisor and give a presentation at TU/e. The responsible Fusion supervisor fills out the assessment form and sends in the signed assessment form and your internship report at CSA AP. CSA AP will process your grade. More information can be found in the assessment protocol and the studyguide.
Projects at ITER
If you want to do your internship/graduation project at ITER, visit https://www.iter.org/jobs/internships for all the required information. ITER’s internship program typically opens for application from October/November until January/February.
Funding and Acknowledgements
Sometimes, but not generally, the hosting institute abroad might fund part of the stay/part of the travel. Don’t count on it though. If you stay abroad for longer than 2 months, you can apply for Fusenet funding. This will generally not cover all your costs but will probably at least pay the flight. If you are planning to stay abroad for a longer period of time there may be additional funding options available, which can be found here.
If you've received funding, it is customary (and often obligatory) to include an acknowledgement to your beneficiary in your work (whether that is just a report or a scientific paper). For FuseNet and Eurofusion, the acknowledgement message is:
“This work has been carried out within the framework of the EUROfusion Consortium, funded by the European Union via the Euratom Research and Training Programme (Grant Agreement No 101052200 — EUROfusion). Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Commission. Neither the European Union nor the European Commission can be held responsible for them.”
More information
For students who began their Internship before September 1, 2024, the previous assessment protocols can be found here.
More information
Want to know more? Contact Exchange AP via apse.exchange.ap@tue.nl.