2026 SCI-E & SCI-S Internship PROJECTS

Below please see the list of the internship projects being offered in 2026 by

Science and Operations Department (SCI-S) and Science Engagement & Oversight Office (SCI-E).

Please note: you can apply to these positions from 1.11.2025 exclusively from the ESA career website: ESA - Career opportunities

INTERNSHIPS AT ESAC:

1. Enhancing the ESA Datalabs Tools Suite and Integration
2. Icy Moons Surface Alteration
3. JUICE Strategic Science Planning: Scientific Opportunity Analysis, Trajectory Studies and Tools development in support of the Science Operations Center
4. Exploring the data reduction pipeline for the Ariel exoplanet mission
5. The journey of solar shock waves in the turbulent interplanetary space
6. From Sco X-1 to Calibration: Probing the Mirror Misalingment of XMM-Newton
7. Support in the pedagogical development of CESAR’s educational activities, with a special focus on the educational campaign for the upcoming solar eclipses.
8. Support for the operation and educational implementation of CESAR’s telescopes
9. Design of multimedia, web and social media contents for educational activities, with a special focus on the total solar eclipse of August 2026
10. Investigating Galactic Bar Formation with Euclid
11. Data exploration and optimisation for the Euclid mission
12. Exploring the potential of Artificial Intelligence to boost Product Assurance

 

INTERNSHIPS AT ESTEC:

1. Reverberation Mapping Simulations of Active Galactic Nuclei
2. Science communication (videomaking, visualization, inclusive communication, and/or story writing)
3. Searching for former companions to young neutron stars with Gaia
4. Constraining Io's dynamics with JUICE astrometry
5. From Pixels to Predictions: Exploring Machine Learning Techniques for Martian Terrain Characterization
6. Impact of small-scale EUV brightenings on the solar atmosphere: insights from high-resolution Solar Orbiter data