 |
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
Research Internships in Science and Engineering (RISE) |
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
This program is administered by DAAD's headquarters in Bonn, Germany. Please visit www.daad.de/rise for the complete program description and application guidelines.
DAAD, in cooperation with science organizations in North America and Germany, is pleased to offer summer internships in Germany for US and Canadian undergraduate students in the fields of biology, chemistry, physics, earth sciences and engineering. RISE fellows work directly with doctoral students in research groups at top German universities and institutions and can expect to gain serious hands-on research experience.
Every RISE intern receives a pro-rated monthly scholarship of approximately €650 for any period of six weeks to three months between June and August. DAAD also provides health and accident insurance.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Questions? |
|
|
|
|
If you have questions regarding RISE, please contact:
knieps@daad.de
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
RISE Press Kit |
|
|
|
|
For additional detailed information about the RISE program, including:
- results of the 2009 RISE evaluation study by the Institute of International Education
- Powerpoint presentations on "RISE in the Context of US-German Educational Exchange" and "Bringing Science and Engineering Students to Germany"
please to to www.iienetwork.org/?p=RISE
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
RISE 2008 Meeting in Heidelberg |
|
|
|
|
Below is an article originally posted on www.young-germany.de about the recent RISE 2008 meeting in Heidelberg.
RISE in Germany - 281 scholars meet in Heidelberg
At the beginning of July 281 RISE scholars turned the international youth hostel in Heidelberg into one big beehive for their meeting. Out of 850 applicants a total of 298 Americans and Canadians was matched with Ph.D. students at German universities in all 16 federal states. “We have set a new record”, enthuses Michaela Gottschling from the German Academic Exchange Service about the RISE program 2008.
The two days programme was filled with discussion rounds with German professors and field trips to big global players like BASF, Merck or the car producer Daimler in Stuttgart. But there was also more then enough time to hang out and share some stories about living in Germany.
Friendly strangers and ugly Ph.D.s
Yung Li for example has become a big fan of Berlin. “In New York City everybody does their own thing without looking left our right. In Berlin it is so much different. A few weeks ago I met with some friends and we sat down for a picnic right in the middle of Admiral’s bridge, which was something special already. But suddenly this random guy came to us and asked if he could join us. Something like that would never happen in New York. Left alone that they actually invited him to sit down.”
500 kilometres away at the university Duisburg Fatosh Dalgakiran enjoys working in the lab with her Ph.D. student Anna Rumpf. Together they are trying to establish a method which proofs which impact electrical voltage has on the growth of bacteria. A big challenge for Fatosh as she was not used to working self-responsible so far: “I don’t know how Anna can be so active after eight hours of work, says Fatosh. “I am always tired while she goes jogging or does other sports. I start working at 8 a.m. which is far to early for me. But still it is a lot of fun.”
The coin eating shopping cart
Fatosh, a native Cypriot who studies at Grinnell College in Iowa, was surprised when she first met Anna: “I always thought of Ph.D.s as old, ugly and confused workaholics”, admits the 19 year old laughing. Anna joins in and adds: “Well, I also didn’t know what to expect when I published my project on the RISE database searching for an intern. But Fatosh is very ambitious and we complement each other pretty well.” While the RISE scholar could die for the German chocolate crème “Nutella”, she could definitely live without German shopping carts. “One day Fatosh stomped in going berserk on our supermarkets and these coin eating shopping carts”, remembers Anna. First she had a hard time understanding where this anger came from but then she realized: “Fatosh thought in Germany you have to pay one Euro for using the cart. She only watched the people throw the money in but never waited until they returned to witness that they got their money back”, says the Ph.D. student in the field of micro biology.
“Blitz travelling” is a must
Grier Wilt never had problems with the shopping carts itself but with some of the products sold in German supermarkets. “During my first week in Germany I wanted to buy some shower gel but couldn’t find the right translation in my small dictionary. After searching for a while on my own I started making funny movements and washing gestures to explain one of the other customers what I actually wanted. And it worked.” Little stories like that made her stay more valuable emphasizes the 20 year old Junior biomedical engineer at Penn State. “My time in Germany has changed me. My self-confidence has grown and I have become more independent.”
Like any other of the 295 RISE scholarship holders this year all three are travelling all across Germany and even Europe almost every weekend. “Blitz travelling” as the scholars call it seems insane to Germans but is worth the stress explains Grier: “One weekend we did this crazy trip from Freiburg to Munich in the far South of Germany all the way up North to Berlin and back to Freiburg. We were exhausted but it was awesome.”
To learn more about RISE participants' experiences in Germany, download the following interviews with current students:
Dan Veal
Grier Wilt
For more photos from the 2008 meeting in Heidelberg, please visit the following links:
www.fotoalbum.eu/daadi/a92015
www.fotoalbum.eu/daadi/a91981
www.fotoalbum.eu/daadi/a91932
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
