Internship
The internship in HEPS/ISoS
The internship constitutes a mandatory part of the HEPS/ISoS program and is part of the Internship Module. It should complement and deepen the interdisciplinary knowledge acquired within the programme. You should learn about the organization and working methods in the professional field, and test the applicability of the knowledge gained during your studies. The practical experience should provide guidance for your later career choice and suggestions for the Master's thesis.
The duration of the internship must be at least 240 hours. The module supervisor, currently Prof. Holger Straßheim, decides on the suitability of an internship before it begins. Please contact him once you have identified a potential internship host.
Potential internship hosts
Given its interdisciplinary nature, the HEPS/ISoS program prepares students for work for a variety of fields, such as conducting projects in science research, ensuring quality standards of knowledge and expertise, participation of science in innovation networks, communication and acceptance of knowledge in the media and the public, organization and management of research and teaching.
In the following you will find a list of institutions and companies that have previously hosted students from the HEPS/ISoS proramme.
- Universities and related institutions
Universities and related institutions
- Bielefeld University - University Library
- Bielefeld University - Press service
- Bielefeld University - Centre for Aesthetics
- Bielefeld University - Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF)
- Bielefeld University - Dezernat Forschungsförderung & Transfer (FFT)
- Bielefeld University - Archive
- Darmstadt University - Science administration
- Kassel University - International Center for Higher Education Research (INCHER)
- Klagenfurt University - Lehrerweiterbildung
- Osnabrück University - Press Service
- Zeppelin University, Friderichshafen - Research Support Office
- Campus OWL, New York Office, New York
- Gesellschaft für Hochschulforschung (GfHf), Kassel
- Extra-university research
Extra-university research
- Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, Berlin
- Ceris/CNR Italy (Institute for Research on Firms and Growth/Italian National Research
Council) - Deutsches Zentrum für Hochschul- und Wissenschaftsforschung (DZHW), Hannover/ Berlin
- European Scientific Engagement Association (EUSEA), Herford
- Forschungszentrum Jülich / Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft
- Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, München
- Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren (HGF), Berlin, Bonn, Brüssel
- Institut für Forschungsinformation und Qualitätssicherung (iFQ), Berlin
- Institut für Technologiefolgeabschätzung und Systemanalyse (ITAS), Karlsruhe
- Insitut für Zukunftsstudien und Technologiebewertung (IZT), Berlin
- ISI Fraunhofer
- Leibniz-Gemeinschaft (WGL), Berlin
- Leibniz-Institut für Informationsinfrastrukturen (FIZ), Karlsruhe
- Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (MPG), München
- MPI für Wissenschaftsgeschichte Berlin, Virtual Library
- Prognos
- Research and Education Institute for Social and Cultural Studies, Iran
- Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Frankfurt
- Umweltforschungszentrum Leipzig
- (Science) Journalism
- Scientific policy advice
Scientific policy advice
- Bundesamt für Risikobewertung
- Büro für Technikfolgenabschätzung beim Deutschen Bundestag
- Institut für Technikfolgenabschätzung und Systemanalyse (ITAS)
- Institut für Zukunftsstudien und Technologiebewertung (IZT)
- proWiss Wissenschaftsberatung, Köln
- Rat für Informationsinfrastrukturen (RFII), Göttingen
- Umweltbundesamt
- Science policy
Science policy
- Bayrisches Staatsinstitut für Hochschulforschung und Hochschulplanung (IHF), München
- Berlin Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (BBAW)
- Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), Bonn oder Berlin
- Hochschulrektorenkonferenz (HRK), Berlin, Bonn, Brussels, Tokyo
- Kreisverband Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen, Bielefeld
- Ministerium für Heimat, Kommunales, Bau und Gleichstellung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
- Ministerium für Innovation, Wissenschaft und Forschung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfahlen, Düsseldorf
- Wissenschaftsrat, Köln
- Wissenschaftliche Kommission des Landes Niedersachsen
- Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, Abt. Wissenschaftspolitik
- Science publishers
- Science funding
Science funding
- Cusanus Werk
- Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienstag (DAAD)
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
- Deutscher Stifterverband
- Heinrich Böll Stiftung
- Konrad Adenauer Stiftung
- Leopoldina: Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften, Halle (Saale), Berlin
- Thyssen Stiftung
- VW Stiftung (public relations)
- Private sector organised research
- Museums and archives
Museums and archives
- Archiv der Bodelschwinghschen Stiftungen Bethel, Bielefeld
- Archiv der Deutschen Demokratie der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Bonn
- Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum (Charité)
- Bielefeld City Archive
- Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden: Mitarbeit in verschiedenen Ausstellungsprojekten
- Deutsches Museum München: Archiv zu Wissenschafts- und Technikgeschichte
- Deutsches Technikmuseum, Ausstellung Mathema
- Geschichte Präsent, Köln, Hannover: Praktikum in der Agentur für Geschichte und historische Kommunikation
- Ifw - Institut für Firmen- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Hamburg
- Kommunalarchiv Herford
- Leibnitz Forschungsstelle der Unibib. Hannover
- Mendel Museum, Brünn (CZ)
- Museo de Historia Natural de la USAC, Guatemala
- Museumsstiftung Post und Telekommunikation, Berlin
- Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin
- Naturkundemuseum Bielefeld
- Neumann&Kamp Historische Projekte, München
- Other
The internship report
The internship report is an opportunity to reflect on your work experiences. You should also use the theoretical and analytical concepts acquired during your studies and apply them on both the context and contents of your internship. The report should be up to 4000 words long (PDF) and structured by the following five core questions:
- How did you learn about the internship opportunity? Why did you choose this institution? How did you approach the institution and why did they choose you as an intern?
- What were the main tasks at your internship? How would you describe your workplace and experiences?
- What did you learn and which competences did you acquire? What was new and unexpected for you? What would you criticize? What was difficult?
- If you had enough time and money how would you design a research project focusing on the professional area of your internship? Which research questions/problems would you tackle, which theory would you use, which assumptions would you follow?
- In a nutshell how would you describe your internship (50-100 words)? And: What went well, which problems did you encounter (50-100 words)?
Please be aware that we may publish your answers to question 5 on our internship homepage. Your answers may help other students to choose their own internship. While the internship report may be written in German, question 5 needs to be in English.
The internship report must be submitted to Prof. Holger Straßheim.