International Opportunities
Research programs for physics undergraduates outside the US. Funding, eligibility, and application timelines vary, so check each program’s website before you apply.
| Program | Location | Length | Paid/fee | Research type | Eligibility notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CERN Summer Student Programme | Geneva, Switzerland | 8 to 13 weeks | Yes (stipend) | Experimental, computing, engineering | Open to undergraduates and master’s students with at least 6 semesters of completed study |
| Perimeter Institute START | Waterloo, Canada | 2 week summer school | no fee | Theoretical physics | Check website |
| IFJ PAN Particle Physics Programme | Kraków, Poland | 4 weeks | unpaid | Theoretical physics | Junior and above ; familiarity with Linux and C++ (or another modern high-level programming language). |
| DAAD RISE Germany | Germany | 3 months | Yes (stipend) | Varies by host lab | undergraduate students from North American, British and Irish universities |
| Kupcinet-Getz International Summer School | Rehovot, Israel | 8 weeks | Yes | Math/CS, physics, chemistry, life sciences | Undergrads who have completed at least 1 year of university. Open to all nationalities. |
| DESY Summer Student Programme | Hamburg and Zeuthen, Germany | 7-8 weeks | Yes | Particle, astroparticle, photon science, accelerators | Generally seniors |
| PRISMA++ Internship Programme | Mainz, Germany | 8-12 weeks | covers housing and travel | Particle, hadron, nuclear physics | Undergraduates and master’s students preferably with research experience |
| Max Planck Matter to Life | Germany | 10 weeks | Yes | Physics of living matter, bio/soft matter, interdisciplinary | Undergrduates with 2+ semesters done by the start |
| OIST Research Internship | Okinawa, Japan | 4–6 months | 2,400 JPY per working day allowance. 5,000 JPY application fee. | Physics, quantum science, chemistry, biology, math, engineering | Junior and Senior, master’s students, or recent grads, any nationality. |
| ICTS Long Term Visiting Students Program | Bengaluru, India | 1–2 semesters | Yes | Physical sciences and math. Includes astrophysics, biological physics, statistical physics, and fluid dynamics. | Bachelor’s or master’s students entering their final year, in their final year, or recently graduated. |
| SOKENDAI-KEK Summer Student Program | Tsukuba and Tokai, Japan | Up to 8 weeks (theory groups up to 4) | Yes | Particle and nuclear physics, accelerator science, detectors, materials, lattice QCD and theory | Juniors and Seniors, and early master’s students. |
| PSI Summer Student Programme | Villigen, Switzerland | 8–12 weeks | Yes | Projects across PSI: neutron and muon science, photon science, particle physics, computing and theory | Seniors or masters student |
| MPIA Summer Internship | Heidelberg, Germany | 3 months | Yes | Astronomy and astrophysics, instrumentation | Juniors and Seniors |
| USEQIP + Undergraduate Research Award (IQC, Waterloo) | Waterloo, Canada | 12-week | Quantum information, theory and experiment | Mostly juniors and seniors |