GeoIntern – RealfagsPraksis

GeoInternInternational

Introduction

What is GeoInternInternational?

The project GeoInternInternational is an upscaling of the HK-dir funded project “GeoIntern” that is focusing on the relevance and work-life component within the geoscience education at Norwegian universities.

In GeoInternInternational the scope is expanded to an international arena that will contribute to enhanced international and intercultural collaboration among the next generation of geoscientists. The main activitity of the project is international work life experience within geoscience education. This includes internships abroad at our partner institutions and their business collaboraters for students from the Departments of Geosciences (DoG) at Norwegian universities, as well as internships in Norway at DoG and our business partners for students from our international partner institutions.

GeoInternInternational will closely interact with the Diku/HK-dir funded Norwegian Centre for Excellence in Education: iEarth. iEarth is a consortium of the geoscience departments of UiB,UiO, UiT and UNIS in which UiT has the lead for the Focus Area “Alumni and outreach”. One main goal of this Focus Area is to increase the work-life relevance in geoscience education. https://www.iearth.no/

GeoInternInternational is hosted and led by the Department of geoscience at UiT in close relation to the present GeoIntern/RealfagsPraksis project, ensuring efficient project management and administrative routines. We collaborate with universities and institutions in Brazil, Canada, China, India, Japan, South-Africa, South-Korea and the USA. Our partners will provide internship opportunities for Norwegian students which may include field campaigns, laboratory work and other tasks related to research and education.

The project period is from 2023 to 2025, and the project will exchange for Internships in Norway for international students and international internships for Norwegian students.

GeoInternInternational Final Conference

Dear project partners,

We are pleased to invite you to the GeoInternInternational Final Conference, which will take place on 20-21 October 2026 in Trondheim, Norway.

The conference will be held alongside the National GeoLearning Forum and will provide an opportunity to reflect on the outcomes and achievements of the GeoInternInternational project.

Throughout the programme, we will explore perspectives from participating students, mentors, project staff, and international partners, as well as discuss the project’s broader implications for international internships and mobility in higher education.

The conference programme will feature:

Key project outcomes, deliverables, and lessons learned
Student experiences from international internships
Mentor and host perspectives on supervising international interns
Reflections from project coordinators and partners
Insights from HK-dir (the Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills) on the UTFORSK portfolio.
Research findings on the impact of international educational experiences

We hope you will join us for an engaging discussion on the value of international internships and their contribution to student learning, employability, and international collaboration.

If you are unable to attend in Trondheim, you are warmly welcome to participate online via the link enclosed.

Please reply to iver.martens@uit.no if you want to join the conference and receive updates regarding the programme.

We look forward to seeing you in Trondheim or online.