We are looking for LECTURERS OF SCIENTIFIC INTERNSHIPS!
INSPIRE, MOTIVATE, EDUCATE our young generation!
Prepare INTERNSHIPS for high school students with us!
Help us find the next generation of researchers by supervising a student internship. Show them what the research world is really like. Give them a unique opportunity to gain professional experience and top up their knowledge in the field they're most interested in.
You can register your proposed internship(s) in our web-based database. Give your internship a title and include a short text that presents the topic in a way secondary students can understand. The registered internships are published in our database on this website, where students will then be able to apply for them until the end of November.
There is no limit to the number of topics that you can register (and therefore offer to students). However, you must complete a separate registration form for each topic. We will send you the documents received from students for your internship(s) in December. You will decide which student(s) to accept for your internship. For each internship you may select one, two or three students from those who apply. Those students will then begin to assist you with your research from January 2025.
Internships in 2024 and 2025 run from January until November (including the summer vacation). As the internship supervisor, you must decide how many hours per month the internship will involve (this must be at least 8 hours) and must indicate this on the topic registration form. When deciding on the number of hours you must take into account that the internship students will be excused from school during these hours. Internship supervision is voluntary (unpaid). Supervisors must be university-qualified researchers employed at one of the CAS institutes. Internships can be carried out in English, i.e. foreign researchers employed at CAS institutes can also become supervisors. Internships take place at CAS workplaces.
Students will consider the offered internships and decide whether to apply for any of them during October and November. They will submit their electronic applications by 30 November, and if those applications meet the eligibility criteria, they will be forwarded to the relevant supervisor for consideration. The supervisor will select between one and three of the candidates who have applied for his/her internship. Students may apply for more than one internship/s. However, no student may attend more than one internship in a given year. Supervisors may also select a runner-up from among the applicants for his/her internship, who would attend the internship if the first student(s) selected turn(s) out to be unable (with due reason) to attend the internship. Each student signs an Internship Agreement with the CAS institute at which the internship will take place and with the Centre of Administration and Operations of the CAS as the project implementer.
Open Science internships in 2024 and 2025 run from January until November (including the summer vacation). One to three students attend each research internship, and work throughout this period on the internship topic, overseen by the internship supervisor. The number of hours each student attends monthly is set by the supervisor in advance and is stated in the internship blurb. The specific days and times of attendance in each month are set by the supervisor in agreement with the student(s).
Each student completes a Student Diary once a month, via a web application, in which he/she briefly describes their progress on the internship during that month. Once the student has completed their Diary entry, the supervisor is informed by email and provided with a direct link via which he/she can then confirm the details provided by the student. Students do not have to confirm their trips and upload their tickets for reimbursement in their Diary for 2024 or 2025.
The internship supervisor is entitled to claim a one-off allowance to cover materials, up to a maximum of 3,000 CZK/year for each student accepted on internship. This allowance is intended to cover the cost required during the course of the internship (laboratory equipment, chemicals, literature, stationery, etc.). The allowance cannot be used to purchase material assets. The allowance is paid on the basis of properly issued invoices sent to info@otevrenaveda.cz until the end of August 2025. The invoices are to be issued by the CAS institute at which the internship takes place.
Students are going to be reimbursed for their travel expenses by project administrator, based on a distance between the student's home or school address and the research institute where the internship is held. Following steps are required for successful reimbursement:
• monthly confirmation of the internship attendance filled in Diary and
• declaration of travel plans from students attached to Internship Agreement.
Travel costs can be covered up to 100 CZK or 200 CZK monthly for each student and they are going to be paid by the end of November at the latest. The maximum amount of expenses for the whole duration of the internship is 1 100 CZK (distance 30-100km) or 2 200 CZK (distance 110km or more) for each student. Project administrator is responsible for all administration connected to this agenda.
Interns should submit following outcomes:
• 5 photos from the internship activities, deadline: 30. 9. 2024 or 30. 9. 2025
• upload abstract (1. 10. 2024 or 1. 10. 2025) and presentation (30. 10. 2024 or 30. 10. 2025)
• fill in the evaluation questionnaire, deadline: 30. 11. 2024 or 30. 11. 2025
Each Open Science year concludes with a Student Conference and showcase of internship work. At the conference, interns present the outcomes of their year's work on the internship. The showcase contest is judged in three separate categories according to the Czech Academy of Sciences’ three Research Areas:
The outcomes of each internship are summarised in a single presentation at the conference, even when that internship was attended by two or three students: in such cases, the internship students present the outcomes of their internship research as a team. The presentations are judged by panels of researchers from the CAS: panel is appointed for each of the Research Areas to assess both the students’ research activities during their internship and the quality of their presentation. The top three winning presentations in each Research Area/contest category receive financial prizes. Panel may also award a special "Judges' prize".
PANELS OF RESEARCHES FOR 2024 CONFERENCE
Mgr. Anna Lynnyk, Ph.D., The Institute of Information Theory and Automation of the CAS
RNDr. Antonín Fejfar, CSc., Institute of Physics of the CAS
Mgr. Lukáš Laibl, Ph.D., Institute of Geology of the CAS
Mgr. Tomáš Kraus, Ph.D., Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the CAS
RNDr. Petr Zouhar, Ph.D., Institute of Physiology of the CAS
RNDr. Petr Novák, Ph.D., Institute of Microbiology of the CAS
RNDr. Jan Fíla, Ph.D., Institute of Experimental Botany of the CAS
Silvie Švarcová, Ph.D., Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the CAS
PhDr. Eva Doležalová, Ph.D., Institute of History of the CAS
PhDr. Markéta Pravdová, Ph.D., MBA, Czech Language Institute of the CAS
Mgr. Jan Mařík, Ph.D., Institute of Archaeology of the CAS
Every student who participated in the project and his/her Diary is complete, will receive a certificate confirming the successful end of the internship. The best presentations at the conference will also receive a diploma confirming their win. Students may request absence form for their school from administrators at any time (info@otevrenaveda.cz).
If an Open Science internship has to be terminated prematurely (with due reason), the supervisor must immediately inform administrators by e-mail: info@otevrenaveda.cz.
In case the internship is terminted after the Internship Agreement is signed with a student, there is one more document that also needs to be signed - Internship Termination Agreement.
Information about how your personal data are processed for the purposes of the Open Science internships can be found in the following document: GDPR English version
The project of the Czech Academy of Sciences, financially supported by The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports.
For more information contact our team: info@otevrenaveda.cz
