The online application is open and will remain open until March 8.

Each summer DESY offers undergraduate students in physics or related natural science disciplines the possibility to participate in the research activities of the laboratory at the Hamburg or Zeuthen (near Berlin) sites.
The 2022 program will take place from July 19 to September 8. An announcement poster can be found here. The program has been adapted to the special conditions due to the Covid pandemic and consists of two main parts:
1. Work projects: Selected candidates join in the day-to-day work of DESY research groups and participate in one of these activities. We plan to have

• the majority of work projects on-site,
• as well as a number of online (remote) projects.

For the on-site projects, everything must of course be conform with the Covid-19 pandemic requirements and restrictions for traveling to (following the guidelines for external users) and working at DESY. Only students who have an EU-conform vaccination will be allowed to participate. Students that are invited for on-site projects are expected to work 39 hours a week. They will receive subsistence allowance (1200 Euro per month), partial travel reimbursement and have the possibility to be accommodated in the DESY Hostel, at a reduced price. Depending on the covid pandemic situation on-site participation in any project can be canceled at any time; for some of these projects, it may be possible to convert them in such a situation into an online project. Online projects generally require internet connections with sufficient bandwidth, for which each participating student has to take care of him/herself. No living allowance is provided for online project students. Students are expected to spend during the working week (Monday - Friday), on average, at least a few hours a day on the online project.
2. Lecture program: While the work in the groups is the main activity, there will also be a series of lectures (given in English) related to the scientific research done at DESY. We are planning to have the lectures mostly on-site plus transmitting them via zoom/webcast.

Qualifications:

• Applicants should have completed, by the summer of 2022, at least three years of full-time studies at the university level in physics, related natural science disciplines, or computing. Please take note that the large majority of projects we offer are for physics students. The main target audiences are students who in summer 2022 are at the following two stages:
  - they are about to obtain their Bachelor degree
  - they have a Bachelor's degree and are within their Master's degree studies.
  Applicants who already obtained a master-degree or will obtain it by summer 2022 are not accepted.
• Applicants should not have previously been at DESY as a summer student
• Special condition for on-site projects: please take note that due to regulations for paid traineeships in Germany we can only accept students that are enrolled at their university for the whole period of the summer student programme.

Please note that all applicants should have a good working knowledge of English and some basic computing skills.
The students are expected to participate during the full period of the programme.

Please take note of the special conditions due to the COVID-19 pandemic:
For participation in on-site projects students must have, at the time of the program start (19 July 2022), an EU-conform vaccination and obey the COVID-19: official entry and quarantine regulations in Germany. They must also obey the DESY COVID-19 official entry and workplace regulations valid at this time.

Dear Applicants!

• Please, before applying, read carefully the conditions and make sure that you fulfil the qualifications. Please proceed to the application only, if you accept the conditions. This includes, that you will participate in the program for the full period of time.
  
  
• Please look through the activities and identify your preferred areas. You can choose three areas in order of priority later in your application form.
  
  
• You can choose in the application mask your preferences for participating in an on-site or online (remote) work project. Either choose 1. and 2. preference or leave out the latter if you consider only one option.
  
  
• Document to be uploaded: In the course of this application you will have to upload a single document (only PDF format is accepted), containing:
  - a CV (curriculum vitae), the CV should be in tabular form only and contain personal data, educational history / relevant work experience, computing and other relevant work skills (usually 1-2 pages are sufficient for the complete CV).
  - University grade certificates (e.g. bachelor certificate, credit points, etc.).
  - Applicants from Non-EU and Non-EEA Countries are requested to include in the upload document a copy of their valid passport in English language.
  The uploading of the document is to be done on the second page of the application. If any of the requested information is missing, your application will not be considered.
  
  
• Two reference letters: Please note that you need to ask your two referees for their permission before giving their names and email addresses in this online form. The referees will get an automatic email notification with instructions where to upload their reference letters.
  
  
• At the end of the online application procedure, you will be asked to confirm the correctness of the data you entered. Your data will be electronically saved for 6 months and processed for the purposes of this summer students application procedure only.
  
  
• The selection process will take place after the end of the online application phase and all applicants will be notified by the end of April on the outcome. We or our project supervisors might contact you during March or April via email in case there are further questions to you regarding your interest and suitability for specific projects.
  
  
• If you have any questions please check first if you can find answers on our webpages. In case you cannot find the answers please write to [email protected]

If you have read and understood the above, please proceed here to the application.