Career Service Internship Program
Do you and your company or organization wish to collaborate with KI? Present career possibilities to our students, PhD students and researchers in a seminar? Or perhaps offer an internship to a doctoral student or an early career researcher?
KI Career Service manages two internship programs and provides information about career opportunities through various activities like workshops and seminars.
Current Calls
HT 2025 Call - Schedule & Events
For Host Organisations
Project Submissions HT25: - From 20th of August to 10th September.
Please contact career-service@ki.se if you wish to submit a project for this call.
For Applicants
- Application opens: 17th September, 2025
- Deadline for candidates to submit applications: 15th October (23.59, CEST), 2025
- Internship to be performed during: November 2025-May 2026
Events
Internship Information Webinar: 16th September, 12.00-13.00, 2025. Registration open!
Mingle Events with Life Science Organisations participating in HT 25 Call:
- September 24th (projects aimed for PhD students), 13.00-16.00 (slight changes to be expected), Nils Ringertz, Biomedicum. Info & Agenda available soon
September 25th (projects aimed for postdocs & researchers), 13.00-16.00 (slight hanges to be expected), Ragnar Granit. Info & Agenda available soon
How to prepare? - supporting webinars in collaboration with Chaperone:
Registrations open!
Webinar #1 - Identifying your transferable skills and strenghts, 12 - 1pm, October 1st, 2025
Webinar #2 - Boosting your CV and LinkedIn, 12 - 1pm, October 8th, 2025
Webinar #3 - Job interview preparation, 12 - 1pm, October 15th, 2025
Internship programs
KI Career Service manages two internship programs:
- KI Doctoral Students: candidate is employed and financed by KI for 1 month
- Postdocs and early career researchers: employed and financed by KI up to 3 months, companies co-finance the internship with a fixed sum of 60 000 SEK, incl. VAT, for the total of 3 months
About internship programs
Life sciences companies and organizations (primarily within Sweden) have the opportunity to:
- offer internship projects to an employed or affiliated PhD student, postdoc or researcher from KI
- recruit highly skilled candidates for short term projects
- establish contacts within many research fields at KI
- A company suggests an internship project and presents it to the KI Career Service
- Career Service announces the projects to KI researchers on the website and recruitment system
- Career Service organizes a Mingle event for each company/organisation to pitch their project to their target audience (projects specific for doctoral students, for postdocs and researchers, or both)
- The Mingle Event turns into a very popular networking event for both companies and internship candidates to meet each other before the deadline of applications
- The company/organisations' representative interviews candidates and do the final selection for the internship and a contract is set up
Watch an information webinar (2021)
Read more about our internship programs:
Read more on our webpages targeted towards our PhD students and postdocs:
Seminar Series
Career Service organizes a monthly seminar Careers Beyond Academia to inspire KI students and researchers to follow other paths.
Reach out if you would like to:
- participate in a seminar Careers beyond Academia
- discuss different collaboration possibilities
- learn how your skills can be put to use in a life sciences company or organization
- get an experience about possible career paths outside academia through interaction with industry, governmental offices and other organizations
Host Organisations
Would you and your company or organization like to collaborate with KI?
You could present career opportunities to our students, PhD students, and researchers in a seminar, or offer an internship to a doctoral student or early-career researcher.
Previous host organisations
Private Sector
- AO Pharma
- Chiesi
- Ebba Biotech
- ScientifyResearch
- SEB
- Janssen
- Lumell
- Terran AI
- Octapharma
- SOBI
- True dose
- Atlas Antibodies
- Ribocure
- Healthy Gaming
- Amgen
- Affibody
- Magnephy
- Basic Genomics
- AI Medical Technology
- Vacara
- AdvanSci
- Epigenica
- Molecular Attraction
- Schain Research
- Sigrid Therapeutics
- Combigene
- Alma.Me
- Key2brain
Public Sector
- Läkemedelsverket
- VA
- Vetenskapsrådet
- UNG Cancer
- EIT Health
Private Sector
- Abbvie
- Affibody
- Aplex bio
- ARKUS AI
- AO Pharma
- Bayer
- Celluminova
- Cepheid
- Chiesi
- Combigene
- Countagen
- Ebba Biotech
- Epigenica
- Healthy Gaming
- ImmunoIVD
- Janssen
- Lumell
- Macanda
- Molecular Attraction
- Moligo Technologies
- Nordea
- PAREXEL Sweden AB
- Pfizer
- Sanofi
- Schain Research
- ScientifyResearch
- SEB
- Sigrid Therapeutics
- Sobi
- Symcel
- TdbLabs
- Tobii
- Cura Cell
- BioArctic
Public Sector
- SBU
- SIS
- UNG Cancer
- Forska Sverige
- Försvarsmakten
Contact
- For company collaborations targeted towards bachelor and master students, email ki-student@ki.se
- For internships programs and collaborations towards PhD students, postdocs and researchers, email career-service@ki.se, francesca.del.gaudio@ki.se or raquel.tavares@ki.se