The ACDH internship is a volunteer programme. It offers the possibility to enhance your professional and personal research interests. ACDH volunteers work only for a specific time period and in their own interest for the purpose of training and further education at the OeAW. There is no employment relationship. Volunteers are not entitled to payment, they can organise their working hours freely and can also refuse to work. The initiative for the collaboration comes from the volunteers. All given work tasks must serve the training of the volunteer.

Internships give volunteers the opportunity to gain practical work experiences. In addition, they gain insights into the workings of an academic research institute and into the innovative aspects of (digital) humanities disciplines.

During an internship, volunteers receive information about open approaches in research (cf. FAIR principles) and can familiarise themselves with working in collaborative research environments. Volunteers will get an insight into the tools, services and data used at the ACDH. The individual support helps the volunteers to build networks and enables them to get in touch with digital humanity research.

During the internship, volunteers have the opportunity to start or carry on working on their own project(s) under the supervision and with the support of ACDH researchers.

Internships are carried out in physical presence at the ACDH workplace, that is to say you will need to be present in the office during your internship. In most projects it is possible to work a certain amount of time also from home. There are no online internships at the moment.

Unfortunately, volunteers cannot be financially remunerated for their work. The ACDH only offers volunteer agreements that are not time-bound and its purpose is for education only. We cannot offer financial compensation, but we are happy to award academic credits if an external internship is part of their university curriculum.

The ACDH offers a special volunteer programme every year in February and July. The official application window opens four months before the start of the internship (around mid-March and beginning of October) and is advertised on our website and on our Social Media channels.

Admission to the programme is coordinated by the ACDH internship office. The number of internships offered depends on the number of researchers with the capacity to take in volunteers and can therefore vary.

Our internships are only designed for short periods of time, they are usually about one to two months long.

The ACDH offers internships every year in February and July with capacities of 80 hours (20 hours per week for 4 weeks) and 120 hours (30 hours per week for 4 weeks).

In special cases volunteers are also accepted during other months. Please contact our ACDH-Internship-coordination office (E-Mail:  acdh-internships(at)oeaw.ac.at). The prerequisites for admission are related to the number of available volunteer positions, depending on the availability of ACDH supervisors.

The application and the required documents are accepted in German and English.

Our ACDH team is internationally oriented and depending on the department and working group, English or German may be preferred.

In the departments of Literary & Print Culture Studies, Musicology, and Linguistics, the working language is usually German.

Required documents for interns from EU and EEA countries:

• a copy of your passport or ID card

• a confirmation of studies or collective certificate (Studienbestätigung), if applicable (it must be clear whether you are inscribed in a regular or extraordinary study programme)

• a signed ÖAW data protection declaration (Datenschutzerklärung), will be handed out by the ACDH

• a completed and signed ACDH internship agreement (Volontariatsvereinbarung), will be handed out by ACDH

• AUVA registration form, if applicable (is filled out by the ACDH)
   

Required documents for interns from third countries:

• a copy of your passport

• a confirmation of studies or collective certificate, if applicable

• a signed OeAW data protection declaration (will be handed out by the ACDH)

• a completed and signed ACDH internship agreement (will be handed out by ACDH)

• a copy of the valid residence permit authorising gainful employment OR a copy of the valid visa C or D with the addition ‘employment’ (application is made at the Austrian embassy of your home country)

• AMS notification confirmation, if applicable(is filled out by the ACDH)

• AUVA registration form, if applicable (is filled out by the ACDH)

After you are officially admitted to the internship, the access data to your OeAW account will be sent by e-mail by the Internship Coordination Office.

As soon as access to MS Teams is enabled, interns will be added to the "ACDH-CH_i_Internships" team. There you will find (installation) instructions for the OeAW mailbox, data network and labor law matters under "General/Files".

The Meet The Researchers programme (MTR) takes place each week during your internship. It starts on your first day of the internship with the Welcome Session, followed by a TEI training. There are one or two weekly MTR meetings.

The individual sessions enable volunteers to come into direct contact with our experts, exchange ideas with them and gain insights into various projects and activities of the ACDH. The MTR sessions end with a final presentation by the volunteers as part of a joint ACDH Research Lunch.

Participation in most of the sessions and the final research lunch is a prerequisite for receiving a volunteer certificate for the internship.

As soon as you have access to MS Teams, you will be added to the Team "ACDH-CH_i_Internships" and find the current MTR programme in your Microsoft Teams calendar.

As part of the volunteer service, the MTR programme is offered in February and July. On these dates it will also be possible to make initial contacts with other volunteers.

You are welcome to exchange ideas in person or individually via MS Teams chat or video conferences or via Mattermost.

As soon as you have access to MS Teams, you will find the template for the volunteer report in the Team "ACDH-CH_i_Internships" under "General / Files", "Templates - Final Report".

The internship should conclude with a brief final presentation by the volunteers as part of the MTR programme during the Research Lunch at the end of the internship and a brief final report (submission deadline two weeks after the end of the internship). Afterwards, a volunteer certificate will be drawn up by the supervisor and sent to the volunteer (by e-mail) preferably no later than two weeks after receiving the volunteer report.

Whether and to what extent your university or your field of study will credit an internship must be clarified by you independently and in advance with the student coordinator at your respective institution. Students who are enrolled in the MA Digital Humanities at the University of Vienna can gain up to 6 ECTS for their internship (80h: 4 ECTS, 120h: 6 ECTS).

If you have successfully completed your internship, we will be happy to confirm this for your respective university or institution.

We would like to offer all applicants the opportunity to complete an internship with us. Therefore, we cannot guarantee you a fixed place for another internship.