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E3 EPFL Excellence in Engineering Summer Internship Program

InternshipSwitzerland · Lausanne

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) — School of Engineering

Application Deadline

November 1, 2026

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E3 is a summer research internship run by EPFL’s School of Engineering (STI) for students from other universities.

Selected Bachelor’s and Master’s students join an STI research group for 8 to 12 weeks; dates and topic are agreed with the host lab. Interns also attend an E3 workshop and social event.

Benefits & funding

  • Monthly allowance, pro rata: CHF 1,800 for labs in Lausanne, Sion or Fribourg; CHF 2,500 for labs in Geneva or Neuchâtel.
  • Travel covered (2nd-class train, economy airfare), refunded on request with host-lab approval.
  • You find your own housing; any embassy visa fee is yours to pay.
  • 2 to 3 months; longer only if your university grants credits and the host agrees.

Eligibility

  • Enrolled in a Bachelor’s or Master’s programme when applying and for the whole internship; PhD students are not eligible.
  • At least two Bachelor’s years completed when applying, in engineering, science or technology.
  • Any nationality.
  • Not open to EPFL students, nor to students of EPFL partner universities: Carnegie Mellon, Georgia Tech, Johns Hopkins, UC San Diego, UIUC, McGill, UBC, Toronto, Waterloo and NTU Singapore (they apply to the EPFL Excellence Research Internship Program instead).

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“NOTE: The following institutions from North America and Singapore have a specific partnership with the EPFL: … If you come from any of these universities, please consider that you are not eligible for an E3 internship” Eligibility

  • Education required

    Bachelor Enrolled · Master Enrolled

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Application process

  1. 1
    Apply online by 1 November 2026, 23:55 Swiss time; no extensions for any reason.
  2. 2
    Host labs screen applications and may invite you to an online interview, up to early March.
  3. 3
    Offers come from a host professor; others hear by email around mid-March.

Program timeline

  1. Application deadline (23:55 Swiss time)

    1 November 2026

  2. Online interviews with host labs

    Mid-November–early March

  3. Outcomes by email

    Mid-March 2027

  4. May–October 2027

    Internship starts (not before 1 May)

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