METU Internships Offer

¿De qué trata esta convocatoria?

The call funds four-week internships in AI, data science and bioinformatics at the METU Informatics Institute within the SUSA project. It is aimed at Bachelor's and Master's students in biology, genetics, engineering, biomedical and bioinformatics fields.

¿Qué financia esta convocatoria?

Scope

Within the SUSA project, Middle East Technical University (METU) offers internships to degree students, aligned with SUSA themes such as digital health and healthcare innovation, health data management and interoperability, artificial intelligence in healthcare and practical use of SUSA educational content.

Internship content

The four-week hands-on internships at the METU Informatics Institute cover building Nextflow computational workflows with Docker and Singularity containers for analyses such as differential gene expression and ChIP-seq, and using the SigProfiler suite of tools for cancer genomics. Internships can be remote, on site or hybrid, in small interdisciplinary teams guided by mentors.

Expected outcomes

Interns are expected to design and implement Nextflow pipelines, work with containerisation, ensure workflow reproducibility, manage large-scale data and use SigProfiler tools. They complete a mini research report or technical presentation and receive an internship certificate.

Funding

Each recipient may receive up to €610 per internship, based on METU's internal remuneration benchmarks.

Selection

Applicants are scored on CGPA (50%), CV and technical skills (30%), motivation letter (10%) and completion of SUSA courses (10%), with attention to diversity, equity and inclusion. Applicants submit a short CV and a one-page motivation letter.

¿Cuándo termina el plazo?

Seven cut-off dates: 2 September 2025, 3 January 2026, 2 September 2026, 3 January 2027, 2 September 2027, 3 January 2028 and 2 September 2028.