Want to spend a month in the Canaries with the experts at the Canary Island Volcanology Institute (INVOLCAN)?
GeoTenerife is proud to announce the launch of its 7th annual GeoIntern programme, a summer training programme we run in association with INVOLCAN which places students in active R+D projects where they can learn a range of highly transferable skills over the course of four weeks. There are different programmes to choose from, covering a range of disciplines. Most of programmes are based in Tenerife, but some of them involve spending some or all of the month on neighbouring islands of Lanzarote, El Hierro or La Palma.
GeoIntern runs from June to September 2020. The deadline for applications is 16 February 2020 and it is open to undergraduates and recent graduates from relevant fields of study of any nationality.
Scholarships
GeoTenerife is committed to open access. Once again we will offer TWO scholarships for the summer GeoIntern programme. We are passionate about making our programmes accessible to talented young scientists wherever possible, and our scholarships are intended to support students who otherwise would not be able to apply. Each scholarship will cover the full course fee (which includes all accommodation, transfers, tuition and excursions) plus a stipend of €500 to help towards other costs. To see how last year’s scholars got on, please see our dedicated Twitter feed @GeoTScholar.
Transferable skills
GeoIntern is a great opportunity to learn a range of skills, attend exclusive lectures from leading experts and gain experience working alongside seasoned professionals out in the field and in the lab on at most a 2:1 basis. ALL TEACHING IS IN ENGLISH.
We are particularly interested in helping you to develop your science communication skills. Whatever your chosen career later on, learning how best to present your views on science and your work will stand you in good stead.
Recognition and networking
Your collaborative research work alongside the professionals in the field or laboratory will be fully recognised and you will be named alongside INVOLCAN scientists on one of the abstracts that will be submitted to the EGU. Many of our students choose to attend the event (and some have been sponsored by their home university to do so) and defend the poster of their work alongside a range of INVOLCAN scientists. It is part of our drive to ensure young scientists start developing contact networks early on to help in their future career development.
Logistics
We take care of all your local accommodation, transfers (from meeting you on arrival in Tenerife to transfers to other islands when your programme demands it) as well as a weekly excursion programme to ensure you maximise your time with us. Our dedicated GeoTenerife field manager is available throughout to ensure the smooth daily running of the programme and to resolve any issues that may arise.
To apply
GeoIntern is heavily over-subscribed every year. To apply, read through the various programmes and decide which one/s you’d like to be considered for. Then click on “Apply Now” below and fill in the form. Only one form per candidate please.
To maximise your chances of a successful application, take care of the details:
We work hard to put together a unique programme to help talented young scientists to get a wide range of experience. Now tell us why you’re perfect for the role.
Good luck!
Each programme runs for four weeks.
June: 5 June – 3 July 2020
July: 3-31 July 2020
August: 31 July – 28 August 2020
September: 28 August – 25 September 2020
Diffuse degassing monitoring, Cumbre Vieja Volcano, La Palma
June
Diffuse degassing monitoring, NERZ volcano, Tenerife
June
Hydrogeochemical and soil CO2 efflux monitoring, Tenerife
June, July, August, September
Diffuse degassing monitoring, summit crater Teide volcano, Tenerife
June, July, August, September
Soil chemistry for geothermal exploration, Tenerife
June, July, August, September
Diffuse CO2 degassing survey at oceanic active volcanic island of El Hierro and summit cone of Teide volcano, Tenerife
July
Diffuse CO2 degassing survey, NWRZ volcano, Tenerife
July
Diffuse degassing monitoring, NSRZ volcano, Tenerife
August
Diffuse CO2 degassing survey at Timanfaya volcano, Lanzarote
September
Environmental monitoring of methane (CH4) emissions to the atmosphere from landfills
September
Why do we charge for our Summer Programme?
The programme costs £1750 for the month.
The scientists you will be training with, usually on a 1:1 or at most a 1:2 basis, are from INVOLCAN, the well-respected Canarian Volcanology Institute. You will have a minimum of 180 direct contact hours with a variety of them from a range of backgrounds in four weeks.
The head of the institute, Dr Nemesio Pérez, is a geochemist and world-authority on geothermal potential and volcano degassing. The institute actively monitors volcanoes around the globe and publishes papers on their research, often leading the field in their findings.
You will receive feedback and guidance about your training in the lab or out in the field. This is an opportunity for you to develop a range of skills that are directly transferable to the workplace and will strengthen your CV. The specific skills you will learn are detailed under the “more info” section for each programme.
It is also an experience that often helps young scientists to clarify which area they would like to concentrate on in future.
You will receive some intensive science communication training to ensure you can present yourself and your work effectively in future (on and off camera). We are passionate believers in the need to train young scientists to communicate well to both scientific and non-scientific audiences. This will help with your general confidence when speaking about your work and with future job applications, funding applications or gaining support for your research.
The course fee funds the cost of producing and submitting all the abstracts of the programmes we run to the EGU each year, and the cost of producing each relevant poster for display. All participants involved in the collaborative research for each programme are named and fully recognised, alongside their home university. This has helped some of our previous participants to raise funding from their university towards attending the meeting so they can defend their work among their peers and make further contacts to widen their professional network.
Thanks to this programme GeoTenerife makes a sizeable contribution each year to Involcán’s local science communication campaign to foster greater awareness of volcanic hazards and risk among the population. In 2019, this amounted to around 15% of each fee.
The fee also covers your accommodation, transfer costs (including return flights or ferry journeys to other islands for programmes in La Palma, Lanzarote and El Hierro; airport/port transfers, daily transfer from your changing work environment).
The fee does NOT cover flights to/from Tenerife which are your responsibility to book and pay for. ALL programmes begin and end in Tenerife – we will transfer you to other islands from here if required by your programme.
GeoTenerife organises all your required permits from the environment ministry to enable you to participate as well as any medical certificates you will need to be able to work in certain industrial installations (eg for environmental monitoring). We endeavour to ensure you always have access to WIFI and a shared kitchen.
Your fee also covers a weekly excursion programme, to ensure you learn about the particular nature of the environment you are working in from local experts. There will be one full day excursion per week (including for those working in Lanzarote, La Palma and El Hierro), and all associated costs (including extra insurance where required, or government permits) are included in your fee. Previous excursions have included an exclusive night-time descent into a majestic little-known lava tube with a local caving club professional and a biologist to describe the unique environment and fauna endemic to that cave; an ascent up to Teide crater; a trek down a dyke-rich gorge led by a local volcanologist followed by a boat ride out to sea for lunch and to see the resident dolphin population.
Part of your fee covers GeoTenerife running costs in the UK and Tenerife (to ensure a successful programme we have set up a permanent, fully-owned subsidiary in Tenerife), our ABTA membership (the UK travel trade association for tour operators and travel agents which protects your payment so your booking is secure) and comprehensive work and liability insurance cover.
A further percentage of your fee supports our Scholarship programme to enable wider access to GeoIntern, which is fully funded by the Summer Programme.
Some of our participants each year are part or fully-funded by their home university to participate in our programme, so it is worth asking your tutor if funds are available for this purpose.
On successful graduation, we are here to advise, promote, support and act as referees for you long after your month with us in the Canary Islands ends.
Want to apply?
Once you have read through the programmes on offer, you can apply using one of the options below. Please note our scholarships are only intended to open access to students who otherwise would not be able to apply. Our programmes are oversubscribed so do take care over your application.
See how other students got on by following our Facebook and Twitter posts where we will be posting the latest 2019 GeoIntern videos and new updates from our participants from previous years too.
You can also see student views from previous years on our YouTube channel:
| 1 | GeoTenerife internships make local and international news in Spain
El Instituto Volcanológico de Canarias (Involcan) ha recibido hasta la fecha 80 solicitudes de estudiantes universitarios de grado y postgrado procedentes de 37 universidades de Alemania, Canadá, España, Estados Unidos, Francia, Italia y Reino Unido para realizar prácticas y tareas de colaboración científica con los investigadores del Involcan en 2016. |
| 2 | GeoTenerife internships make local and international news in Spain
El Instituto Volcanológico de Canarias (Involcan) ha recibido hasta la fecha 80 solicitudes de estudiantes universitarios de grado y postgrado procedentes de 37 universidades de Alemania, Canadá, España, Estados Unidos, Francia, Italia y Reino Unido para realizar prácticas y tareas de colaboración científica con los investigadores del Involcan en 2016. |
| 3 | GeoTenerife Interns take part in Volcanoes Night in Tenerife and make the evening news En el mundo, hay entre quince o veinticinco volcanes en erupción en un día cualquiera. Canarias se ha unido a la lista de 350 ciudades europeas que celebran la noche de los volcanes. Los científicos recuerdan la necesidad de que se divulgue información científica apta para todos los públicos. |
| 4 | August 2014 Internship gallery PhotoGallery for the closing session for the August 2014 Internship at ITER, Tenerife. |
| 5 | Manufacturing Business
we are decided to construct a platform where college students can genuinely reward from operating proper together with experts GeoTenerife is a British isles firm that runs science area trips and internship programmes for British isles college students in the Canary Islands. Their most recent marketing campaign noticed them deliver six publish and undergraduate learners from a variety of Uk universities to operate with the Canarian Volcanological Institute (Instituto Volcanológico de Canarias, INVOLCAN), in the Canary Islands. |
| 6 | GeoTenerife August Volcanic Risk internships end on a high
GeoTenerife is a UK company that runs science field trips and internship programmes for UK students in the Canary Islands. Their most recent campaign saw them bring six post and undergraduate students from a range of UK universities to work with the Canarian Volcanological Institute (Instituto Volcanológico de Canarias, INVOLCAN), in the Canary Islands. GeoTenerife Director Sharon Backhouse said, “We are passionate about granting access for talented individuals to real science. Having seen, at first hand, the raw deal many students get when applying for science internships, we are determined to build a platform where students can really benefit from working right alongside scientists and learn about their craft.” |
| 7 | BusByway
GeoTenerife is a UK company that runs science field trips and internship programmes for UK students in the Canary Islands. Their most recent campaign saw them bring six post and undergraduate students from a range of UK universities to work with the Canarian Volcanological Institute (Instituto Volcanológico de Canarias, INVOLCAN), in the Canary Islands. |
| 8 | The University of Glasgow’s facebook
Pamela Rattigan shared this pic of her first day of Geo Tenerife internship hiking in Teide National park. Amazing scenery! #UofGsummer |
| 9 | Involcan Facebook
En este enlace pueden leer las opiniones de seis alumnos británicos sobre la experiencia que han disfrutado este verano junto al personal de INVOLCAN. |
| 10 | La Laguna Ahora
Una veintena de estudiantes universitarios procedentes de quince universidades europeas realizan prácticas a lo largo de 2014 en el Instituto Volcanológico de Canarias (Involcan), una entidad impulsada por el Cabildo de Tenerife. Los estudiantes proceden de las universidades de La Laguna, Complutense de Madrid, Oviedo (España), Florencia (Italia), College Dublin (Irlanda), Oxford, Bristol, Northumbria, Manchester, Glasglow, Durham, College London, Leicester, Brighton y Chester (Reino Unido). |
| 11 | Nuestras Islas Canarias
Los jóvenes proceden de universidades de España, Italia, Irlanda y Reino Unido Una veintena de estudiantes universitarios procedentes de quince universidades europeas realizan prácticas a lo largo de 2014 en el Instituto Volcanológico de Canarias (Involcan), una entidad impulsada por el Cabildo de Tenerife. La mayor parte ellos están cursando sus estudios para la obtención de su grado universitario en diferentes disciplinas relacionadas con las ciencias, pero también quienes están optando a su grado de doctor. |
| 12 | Sector Publishing Intelligence: Sun, Sea… Volcanoes?
VOLCANIC RISK UNDERGRADUATE INTERNSHIPS, Summer 2014 GeoTenerife proudly announces that we have places available in AUGUST and SEPTEMBER on our summer internship programme, in collaboration with INVOLCAN, the Canary Islands Volcanology Institute, for undergraduates interested… |
| 13 | Twicsy: Sun, sea, VOLCANOES?
GeoTenerife: Sun, sea, VOLCANOES? GeoTenerife #VOLCANOLOGY #SUMMER #INTERNSHIPS Applications open May 12. Reply to preregister. http://t.co/4I8RuSBzFx – 2014-04-26 16:12:23 Read more at http://twicsy.com/i/zYrxcf#S3uqvpLRMxbbPjyw.99 |
| 14 | BusByway: Sun, Sea… Volcanoes?
GeoTenerife proudly announces that we have places available in AUGUST and SEPTEMBER on our summer internship programme, in collaboration with INVOLCAN, the Canary Islands Volcanology Institute, for undergraduates interested in the field of… |
| 15 | New Zealand Times: Sun, Sea… Volcanoes?
GeoTenerife proudly announces that they have places available in AUGUST and SEPTEMBER on their summer internship programme, in collaboration with INVOLCAN, the Canary Islands Volcanology Institute, for undergraduates interested in the field of… |
| 16 | Silobreaker: Sun, Sea… Volcanoes?
This story VOLCANIC RISK UNDERGRADUATE INTERNSHIPS, Summer 2014 GeoTenerife proudly announces that we have places available in AUGUST and SEPTEMBER on our summer internship programme, in collaboration with INVOLCAN,… |
| 17 | Manufacturing Business: Solar, Sea… Volcanoes?
VOLCANIC Danger UNDERGRADUATE INTERNSHIPS, Summer season 2014 GeoTenerife proudly announces that we have spots obtainable in AUGUST and SEPTEMBER on our summer internship programme, in collaboration with INVOLCAN, the Canary Islands Volcanology Institute, for undergraduates intrigued in the discipline of:*Geoscience*Environmental sciences*Conversation and outreach… |
| 18 | Facebook: Bude and Beyond & budeandbeyond.co.uk
VOLCANIC RISK UNDERGRADUATE INTERNSHIPS, Summer 2014 GeoTenerife proudly announces that we have places available in AUGUST and SEPTEMBER on our summer internship programme, in collaboration with INVOLCAN, the Canary Islands Volcanology Institute, for undergraduates interested in the field of: *Geoscience*Environmental sciences*Communication and outreach… |
| 19 | Outdoor Enthusiast : Sun, sea and volcanoes…
GeoTenerife have announced that they have places available in august and September within the summer internship programme, in collaboration with INVOLCAN, the Canary Islands Volcanology Institute, for undergraduates interested in the field of Geoscience, Environmental sciences and Communication and outreach |
| 20 | Sun, sea and volcanoes…
GeoTenerife have announced that they have places available in august and September within the summer internship programme, in collaboration with INVOLCAN, the Canary Islands Volcanology Institute, for undergraduates interested in the field of Geoscience, Environmental sciences and Communication and outreach |
| 21 | Find a bunk house: Sun, Sea… Volcanoes?
GeoTenerife proudly announces that we have places available in AUGUST and SEPTEMBER on our summer internship programme, in collaboration with INVOLCAN, the Canary Islands Volcanology Institute |
| 22 | Outdoor Enthusiast magazine, Sun, sea and volcanoes…
GeoTenerife have announced that they have places available in august and September within the summer internship programme, in collaboration with INVOLCAN, the Canary Islands Volcanology Institute, for undergraduates interested in the field of Geoscience, Environmental sciences, Communication and outreach |
| 23 | GeoTenerife August Volcanic Risk internships end on a high
GeoTenerife is a UK company that runs science field trips and internship programmes for UK students in the Canary Islands. Their most recent campaign saw them bring six post and undergraduate students from a range of UK universities to work with the Canarian Volcanological Institute (Instituto Volcanológico de Canarias, INVOLCAN), in the Canary Islands. |
| 1 | GeoTenerife internships make local and international news in Spain |
| 2 | GeoTenerife internships make local and international news in Spain |
| 3 | GeoTenerife Interns take part in Volcanoes Night in Tenerife and make the evening news En el mundo, hay entre quince o veinticinco volcanes en erupción en un día cualquiera. Canarias se ha unido a la lista de 350 ciudades europeas que celebran la noche de los volcanes. Los científicos recuerdan la necesidad de que se divulgue información científica apta para todos los públicos. |
| 4 | August 2014 Internship gallery PhotoGallery for the closing session for the August 2014 Internship at ITER, Tenerife. |
| 5 | Manufacturing Business
we are decided to construct a platform where college students can genuinely reward from operating proper together with experts GeoTenerife is a British isles firm that runs science area trips and internship programmes for British isles college students in the Canary Islands. Their most recent marketing campaign noticed them deliver six publish and undergraduate learners from a variety of Uk universities to operate with the Canarian Volcanological Institute (Instituto Volcanológico de Canarias, INVOLCAN), in the Canary Islands. |
| 6 | GeoTenerife August Volcanic Risk internships end on a high
GeoTenerife is a UK company that runs science field trips and internship programmes for UK students in the Canary Islands. Their most recent campaign saw them bring six post and undergraduate students from a range of UK universities to work with the Canarian Volcanological Institute (Instituto Volcanológico de Canarias, INVOLCAN), in the Canary Islands. GeoTenerife Director Sharon Backhouse said, “We are passionate about granting access for talented individuals to real science. Having seen, at first hand, the raw deal many students get when applying for science internships, we are determined to build a platform where students can really benefit from working right alongside scientists and learn about their craft.” |
| 7 | BusByway
GeoTenerife is a UK company that runs science field trips and internship programmes for UK students in the Canary Islands. Their most recent campaign saw them bring six post and undergraduate students from a range of UK universities to work with the Canarian Volcanological Institute (Instituto Volcanológico de Canarias, INVOLCAN), in the Canary Islands. |
| 8 | The University of Glasgow’s facebook
Pamela Rattigan shared this pic of her first day of Geo Tenerife internship hiking in Teide National park. Amazing scenery! #UofGsummer |
| 9 | Involcan Facebook
En este enlace pueden leer las opiniones de seis alumnos británicos sobre la experiencia que han disfrutado este verano junto al personal de INVOLCAN. |
| 10 | La Laguna Ahora
Una veintena de estudiantes universitarios procedentes de quince universidades europeas realizan prácticas a lo largo de 2014 en el Instituto Volcanológico de Canarias (Involcan), una entidad impulsada por el Cabildo de Tenerife. Los estudiantes proceden de las universidades de La Laguna, Complutense de Madrid, Oviedo (España), Florencia (Italia), College Dublin (Irlanda), Oxford, Bristol, Northumbria, Manchester, Glasglow, Durham, College London, Leicester, Brighton y Chester (Reino Unido). |
| 11 | Nuestras Islas Canarias
Los jóvenes proceden de universidades de España, Italia, Irlanda y Reino Unido Una veintena de estudiantes universitarios procedentes de quince universidades europeas realizan prácticas a lo largo de 2014 en el Instituto Volcanológico de Canarias (Involcan), una entidad impulsada por el Cabildo de Tenerife. La mayor parte ellos están cursando sus estudios para la obtención de su grado universitario en diferentes disciplinas relacionadas con las ciencias, pero también quienes están optando a su grado de doctor. |
| 12 | Sector Publishing Intelligence: Sun, Sea… Volcanoes?
VOLCANIC RISK UNDERGRADUATE INTERNSHIPS, Summer 2014 GeoTenerife proudly announces that we have places available in AUGUST and SEPTEMBER on our summer internship programme, in collaboration with INVOLCAN, the Canary Islands Volcanology Institute, for undergraduates interested… |
| 13 | Twicsy: Sun, sea, VOLCANOES?
GeoTenerife: Sun, sea, VOLCANOES? GeoTenerife #VOLCANOLOGY #SUMMER #INTERNSHIPS Applications open May 12. Reply to preregister. http://t.co/4I8RuSBzFx – 2014-04-26 16:12:23 Read more at http://twicsy.com/i/zYrxcf#S3uqvpLRMxbbPjyw.99 |
| 14 | BusByway: Sun, Sea… Volcanoes?
GeoTenerife proudly announces that we have places available in AUGUST and SEPTEMBER on our summer internship programme, in collaboration with INVOLCAN, the Canary Islands Volcanology Institute, for undergraduates interested in the field of… |
| 15 | New Zealand Times: Sun, Sea… Volcanoes?
GeoTenerife proudly announces that they have places available in AUGUST and SEPTEMBER on their summer internship programme, in collaboration with INVOLCAN, the Canary Islands Volcanology Institute, for undergraduates interested in the field of… |
| 16 | Silobreaker: Sun, Sea… Volcanoes?
This story VOLCANIC RISK UNDERGRADUATE INTERNSHIPS, Summer 2014 GeoTenerife proudly announces that we have places available in AUGUST and SEPTEMBER on our summer internship programme, in collaboration with INVOLCAN,… |
| 17 | Manufacturing Business: Solar, Sea… Volcanoes?
VOLCANIC Danger UNDERGRADUATE INTERNSHIPS, Summer season 2014 GeoTenerife proudly announces that we have spots obtainable in AUGUST and SEPTEMBER on our summer internship programme, in collaboration with INVOLCAN, the Canary Islands Volcanology Institute, for undergraduates intrigued in the discipline of:*Geoscience*Environmental sciences*Conversation and outreach… |
| 18 | Facebook: Bude and Beyond & budeandbeyond.co.uk
VOLCANIC RISK UNDERGRADUATE INTERNSHIPS, Summer 2014 GeoTenerife proudly announces that we have places available in AUGUST and SEPTEMBER on our summer internship programme, in collaboration with INVOLCAN, the Canary Islands Volcanology Institute, for undergraduates interested in the field of: *Geoscience*Environmental sciences*Communication and outreach… |
| 19 | Outdoor Enthusiast : Sun, sea and volcanoes…
GeoTenerife have announced that they have places available in august and September within the summer internship programme, in collaboration with INVOLCAN, the Canary Islands Volcanology Institute, for undergraduates interested in the field of Geoscience, Environmental sciences and Communication and outreach |
| 20 | Sun, sea and volcanoes…
GeoTenerife have announced that they have places available in august and September within the summer internship programme, in collaboration with INVOLCAN, the Canary Islands Volcanology Institute, for undergraduates interested in the field of Geoscience, Environmental sciences and Communication and outreach |
| 21 | Find a bunk house: Sun, Sea… Volcanoes?
GeoTenerife proudly announces that we have places available in AUGUST and SEPTEMBER on our summer internship programme, in collaboration with INVOLCAN, the Canary Islands Volcanology Institute |
| 22 | Outdoor Enthusiast magazine, Sun, sea and volcanoes…
GeoTenerife have announced that they have places available in august and September within the summer internship programme, in collaboration with INVOLCAN, the Canary Islands Volcanology Institute, for undergraduates interested in the field of Geoscience, Environmental sciences, Communication and outreach |
| 23 | GeoTenerife August Volcanic Risk internships end on a high
GeoTenerife is a UK company that runs science field trips and internship programmes for UK students in the Canary Islands. Their most recent campaign saw them bring six post and undergraduate students from a range of UK universities to work with the Canarian Volcanological Institute (Instituto Volcanológico de Canarias, INVOLCAN), in the Canary Islands. |
