Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal For Summer Research Internship

Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal or IISER-B for short is a government science research and education institute of national importance, established in 2008 in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh (India). It offers a “Summer Research Internship” program to students interested in basic sciences, engineering sciences and economic sciences to promote research among students in the country. This article discusses this opportunity based on the details of the Summer Research Internship for the year 2024 at the institute.

Eligibility

Students who have completed or are currently studying in the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th years of B.Sc/B.Tech/B.E or 1st year of M.Sc/M. Tech or an equivalent program are encouraged to apply at the time of application.

Application

The internship notification document is made available on the IISER-B website when the applications are invited for the year. Download the document once available. All the up-to-date details that the applicant should know before applying are given in this document. The link for the application portal is given in this document. Open the link when it is active as given in the document. (For example, for the year 2024, it was active from March 20 to April 21, 2024)

Follow the following steps for application –

1. Open the application portal when available.
2. Create an applicant-id using an email address (if not created already).
3. Login to your ID using your credentials.
4. Open the application form and (a) Enter the required details like name, mobile, academic performance, correspondence address, etc., (b) Upload a Passport photograph, (c) Enter a statement of Purpose (d) Upload a CV.
5. Finally, you need to select 3 projects that you are interested in working on in priority order and then submit the application. (The list of projects along with corresponding department, faculty, internship duration and project description is available while selecting.)

Before the final date, the applicant can edit and resubmit the application using the same ID.

Selection

Candidates are selected based on –

1. Academic Performance.
2. Write-up submitted with the application.

A list of selected candidates is made available on the website sometime after the application portal stops accepting applications. Selected candidates would be informed via registered email too.

Internship and Certificate

The selected candidates would participate in research carried out by the faculty at IISER Bhopal through research/reading projects under their supervision. Project duration is generally from 4 to 8 weeks, but the exact duration may vary (and available while selecting the project in the application as described in the application section).

The certificate will be provided by the concerned faculty once it is concluded that the intern has completed the assigned work successfully.